DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Saturday of a leading Bangladeshi activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack in Dhaka earlier this month, ...

Bangladesh began official campaigning on Thursday for the hugely anticipated general elections next month, the first since the 2024 uprising ended the autocratic rule of Sheikh Hasina.

Bangladesh erupted in unrest and two newspaper offices were set on fire in Dhaka as protesters blocked the roads around the Shahbagh intersection after the death of Osman Hadi, a key leader in the ...

Bangladesh, a South Asian country of 180 million people, is on the verge of an economic transformation as one of the world’s fastest growing economies. With GDP per capita exceeding India’s ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — About 100 Bangladeshi workers who were employed by Malaysian companies rallied Monday to demand unpaid wages, fair compensation and an end to alleged abuse by Malaysian ...

Catholics in Bangladesh are mourning the death of prominent Catholic author and journalist Jerome D’Costa who passed away on Nov. 6 at the age of 75. D’Costa died due to respiratory complications, his ...

On August 5, 2024, a student-led revolution ended Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year authoritarian rule in Bangladesh. Despite the regime’s “zero tolerance” policy toward extremism, designed to legitimize its ...

Islamist radicals, long considered a fringe group in Bangladesh, managed to stop two women’s football friendly matches in the north of the country in late January, raising fears of increasing ...