The Bangladeshi military announced Jan. 19 it had foiled a coup plot to unseat the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sheik Hasina. An army spokesman pinned the “heinous conspiracy” ...

Peacekeepers deployed to the U.N. Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) carry the Bangladeshi flag during a ceremony honoring 150 peacekeepers from Bangladesh with the United Nations medal ...

Explore Bangladesh's architectural heritage through this curated map of prominent Mughal mosques. Spanning the Sultanate era ...

The Liberation War of 1971 was not the work of one man. It was the product of millions of freedom fighters, political leaders, student activists, cultural organisers, rural villagers, defecting ...

Activists want the autocratic prime minister to step down. 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 ...

Radical changes to the school curriculum are routine in Bangladesh - Copyright AFP Munir Uz Zaman Radical changes to the school curriculum are routine in Bangladesh ...

Along with joy vandalism also took place around Bangladesh after Hasina’s resignation on Aug. 5, 2024. Credit: Saqlain Rizve On December 22, 2024, a violent clash between Jamaat-e-Islami and the ...

The church no longer exists, and a Muslim family has since settled on the land. However, the district’s official website still preserves its history online. A garden now occupies the site of ...

In Dhaka’s political chatter, one word often keeps resurfacing when people debate who really holds the reins of the country: “Kochukhet”. The neighbourhood that houses key military installations has, ...

Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- Bangladesh's 13th parliamentary election will be remembered as a 'role model' in the country's electoral history, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury ...