Pakistan and Bangladesh are negotiating a Mutual Defence Agreement, reflecting renewed diplomatic and military ties. Recent high-level visits and MoUs signal deepening cooperation, with a final draft ...

Demonstrators block Place Shahbagh to demand justice for the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 19, 2025. MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN / REUTERS The situation in Bangladesh has ...

The fresh outbreak of violence occurred in Bangladesh following the death of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi and has led to attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus, and the targeting of major news ...

Hadi, 32, died on December 18. He was shot in the head last week by masked attackers while he was launching his election campaign in Dhaka’s Bijoynagar. Doctors in Dhaka said his condition was ...

Bangladesh’s domestic political discourse has taken a sharply confrontational turn against India, with senior leaders openly invoking threats that revive memories of Dhaka’s past role as a rear base ...

Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to step down midway through his term after February’s parliamentary election, telling Reuters he has felt humiliated by the interim ...

The Election Commission in Bangladesh announced the schedule for the general elections on Thursday, the first since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August last year. The general ...

A vendor sells newspapers with headlines about the news of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's death sentence on charges of crimes against humanity for ordering a deadly crackdown on a ...

Dhaka's Foreign Affairs Adviser signals the "strategic possibility" of Bangladesh joining a regional grouping with Pakistan and China, a trilateral initiative that would exclude India and reshape ...

Bangladesh’s next national elections will be held on Feb. 12, 18 months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted through a mass uprising following weeks of violence that left hundreds dead ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s largest political party, is decisively breaking its decades-long alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami, the South Asian nation’s biggest Islamist ...

Bangladesh’s student-led National Citizen Party has joined hands with the Amar Bangladesh party and the Rashtra Songskar Andolon to form the ‘Gonotantrik Sangskar Jote’ ahead of the February election.