The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, one of the South Asian nation’s two entrenched political factions, claimed a decisive victory this morning in Bangladesh’s first election since the 2024 student-led ...

“This is Major Zia speaking.” That is how Major Ziaur Rahman debuted in the public life of his country on March 27, 1971. Minutes earlier, Zia had driven to the Kalurghata radio transmitter centre of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local media in Bangladesh reported cases of violence following the South Asian nation's landmark February 2026 election, but ...

As old political alliances fracture and constitutional debates intensify, an unprecedented Islamist alliance is reshaping the country's electoral landscape. With the long‑dominant Awami League (AL) ...

Bangladesh appears to have turned a democratic corner, holding what observers describe as its most free and credible election in recent memory on Thursday (Feb 12). The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ...

Bangladesh votes on Thursday in the first election since a Gen Z protest movement toppled an ageing autocrat – an uprising tens of millions of young people dreamed could chart a new course for their ...

Bangladesh Election Results: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Tarique Rahman is all set to be sworn in as the nation's next Prime Minister following a landslide registered by his party in the ...

A 62-year-old Hindu trader was hacked to death by unidentified men inside his shop in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh in Bangladesh, a local media report said on Tuesday. The incident took place on ...

Rahat Hossain was almost killed trying to save his friend in a youth uprising that became one of the bloodiest episodes in Bangladesh's history. Footage of him trying to pull Emam Hasan Taim Bhuiyan, ...

The Hindu population in Bangladesh has been affected by a series of incidents after the killing of radical youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi in December A police officer stands guard in a room full of ...

Rastriya Swatantra Party risks becoming a South Asian sequel no one wanted, repeating Aam Aadmi Party's early days in Delhi, mixed with Sri Lanka's Aragalaya disappointment and Bangladesh's one-party ...