Bangladesh’s next national elections will be held on Feb. 12, the chief election commissioner said Thursday, setting the ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Deadly protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country born out of a war between India ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh—A year after Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering tiny loans to the world’s poor, he announced plans to form his own political party. It would be called the ...

Now to Bangladesh, a country of more than 170 million people who inhabit a place a little bigger than Iowa. It has just experienced some of the deadliest protests in its history. NPR's Diaa Hadid ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A strong, 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook central Bangladesh on Friday, killing at least eight people and leaving more than 300 injured, authorities and local media said.

Syrupy aromas drift across the guarded compound of Bangladesh's only licensed distillery, a state-owned producer posting record profits in the Muslim-majority nation, where Islamists are staging a ...

The Mrityunjayee Prangan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after a golden statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the site was toppled on August 5, 2025. Credit: Wikipedia/Md Joni Hossain “This was a destruction not ...