Bangladesh

Sunday, 17 August 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

The Witness Feed: The Facebook Live that Shook Bangladesh

A student’s unplanned livestream of Bangladesh’s July 2024 protests captured the killing of Abu Sayed.

Thursday, 14 August 2025

Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪

Rohingya women in Bangladeshi camps lack toilets

DW talks to one woman who is working to improve the situation in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar.

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

Trial of Labour MP Tulip Siddiq begins in Bangladesh

The ex-minister denies the allegations of corruption against her, relating to a plot of land in Dhaka.

The Independent 🇬🇧

Tulip Siddiq’s anti-corruption trial formally begins in Bangladesh

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh officials testify against UK lawmaker at anticorruption trial

British former minister is being tried over an alleged land grab of plots in the capital, Dhaka.

Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

MP Tulip Siddiq holds Bangladeshi citizenship, prosecutors say

British ex-minister denies having passport ahead of corruption trial in Dhaka

Monday, 11 August 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

India-Bangladesh trade row: New Delhi bans jute and rope imports via land; shipments to be routed only through Nhava Sheva port

The Independent 🇬🇧

Dengue kills 101 as Bangladesh stares at major outbreak

Sunday, 10 August 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

'To enhance its reputation’: Bangladesh hires ex-ICC anti-corruption head

The Guardian 🇬🇧

‘I’m collateral damage’: ex-minister Tulip Siddiq on her Bangladesh corruption trial

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Immigration Raids in India Detain Thousands, Mostly Muslims

The crackdown on suspected Bangladeshi immigrants intensified after a terrorist attack in Kashmir. Critics say the raids are targeting Indians who speak Bengali.

BBC News 🇬🇧

Jubilant scenes but bumpy road ahead in post-Hasina Bangladesh

Bangladesh marked a year since Sheikh Hasina fled with promises of renewal, but little mention of its problems.

Friday, 8 August 2025

The Times 🇬🇧

She’s on trial for crimes against humanity — and plotting a comeback

Bangladeshis ousted Sheikh Hasina a year ago and accuse her of ordering massacres. Now from exile she spies a path back to power

The Wire 🇮🇳

Ferreting Out Bangladeshis Based on Language, Dress and Food is Sinister

The politics of polarisation based on emphasising difference to separate and therefore divide people is being played by the BJP and is enabling the Trinamool Congress to declare itself as the champion of dialect diversity and standardised Bengali. 

The Times of India 🇮🇳

'He indirectly supported SIR': Assam CM Himanta on Rahul's 'vote theft' claim; cites ‘Bangladeshi names’ in voter rolls

Thursday, 7 August 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Durand Cup | 'We're called Bangladeshi...' — EB fans deliver a stinging message

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Investigating Sheikh Hasina’s final days in Bangladesh

Al Jazeera investigates how a powerful student protest movement ended a political dynasty in Bangladesh.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Pakistan, Turkiye & Bangladesh not on list of invitees for RSS centenary celebration

The Times 🇬🇧

Joy and trepidation in Bangladesh a year since ousting of Sheikh Hasina

Victims of a brutal crackdown on student-led protests gave evidence at the start of the exiled former prime minister’s trial

BBC News 🇬🇧

Bangladesh announces election as country marks year since Sheikh Hasina fled

Interim leader Muhammad Yunus confirmed the date as the country marked a year since ex-PM Sheikh Hasina fled.

Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪

Bangladesh to hold elections in February 2026

NPR 🇺🇸

Their son was shot by police in Bangladesh's 2024 protests. They still want justice

August 5, 2025 • In July and August of 2024 in Bangladesh, student protesters' push for change drove the authoritarian prime minister out of power. Hundreds of demonstrators were killed.

The Independent 🇬🇧

Thousands to rally in Bangladesh one year after Sheikh Hasina’s fall

Monday, 4 August 2025

Le Monde 🇫🇷

One year after the revolution in Bangladesh, Islamists have resurged

One year after the revolution in Bangladesh, Islamists have resurged

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Five Bangladeshi nationals held for attempting to enter Red Fort

The Independent 🇬🇧

A year after a bloody uprising, Bangladesh is far from political stability

Sunday, 3 August 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Kolkata shocker: Man dies by suicide fearing deportation to Bangladesh over NRC

Saturday, 2 August 2025

The Irish Times 🇮🇪

‘She should answer for what she did’: Trial begins of ex-Bangladeshi leader for crimes against humanity

Sheikh Hasina has fled to India and is bring tried in absentia

The Guardian 🇬🇧

‘She should answer for what she did’: trial of ex-Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina begins

Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪

Bangladesh still polarized a year after Hasina's ouster

While the country has made some progress, expectations that last year's revolt would bring change have not yet been met.

The Wire 🇮🇳

An Eye Witness’s Account of the Exodus of Bengali Muslim Migrant Workers in Gurugram

Bengali Muslim migrants have been repeatedly labelled as Rohingyas and/or Bangladeshis, therefore “illegal immigrants”, forced to flee, and ultimately deserted by their home state; left to live in fear of the domicile thousands of kilometres away.

Financial Times 🇬🇧

The mission to save Bangladesh’s modern masters

For decades, thousands of important artworks have languished in humid storerooms because of government neglect — now they are beginning to see the light

Friday, 1 August 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

A Funeral Shines a Light on the Bangladeshis Thriving in the N.Y.P.D.

Didarul Islam, who was killed this week in a Park Avenue office tower, was among the Bangladeshi Americans who have flocked to the Police Department’s ranks.

BBC News 🇬🇧

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to face trial in Bangladesh

The case against the former minister, who denies the allegations, will go ahead even if she does not attend.

Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪

Bangladesh fishers risk abduction in Myanmar border tensions

Rebels from Rakhine state have been abducting Bangladeshi fishermen. DW spoke with several men who were held captive.

The Guardian 🇬🇧

‘Because of women it became a people’s revolution’: what has changed one year on from Bangladesh’s student uprising?

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Bangladesh outfit backed by Turkish NGO published anti-India map: Jaishankar

Thursday, 31 July 2025

The Times 🇬🇧

Let’s hope this great man can forge history

A year on from Bangladesh’s revolution, Muhammad Yunus seems to be avoiding the pitfalls that followed the Arab Spring

The Economist 🇬🇧

South Asian women will be hurt by the trade war

Unless Bangladesh and Sri Lanka strike a deal with Donald Trump

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱

NY officer killed in Manhattan shooting remembered as hero in US, Bangladesh

Tuesday, 29 July 2025

The Wire 🇮🇳

‘If We’re Bangladeshis, Why Did Govt Give Us Houses?’: Evicted Families in Assam’s Hasila Beel Fight for Basic Needs

The camps near Hasila Beel lack clean drinking water, electricity supply and sanitation. The monsoon rains only worsen their misery.

BBC News 🇬🇧

The 'hero' policeman who died saving lives during NYC skyscraper shooting

Didarul Islam, 36, a father who had migrated to the US from Bangladesh, is among four people killed.

The New York Times 🇺🇸

At Slain Officer’s Home, His Bangladeshi Community Mourns Into the Night

Didarul Islam had a job that brought respect and the esteem of his neighbors. “He said serve the community and you’ll do fine,” a friend said.

Monday, 28 July 2025

The Wire 🇮🇳

A Question for the BJP: Why Would Bangladeshis Come to Bihar?

As the Bangladesh economy improves and millions leave Bihar in search of work, the claim of illegal immigration does not add up.

Sunday, 27 July 2025

The Wire 🇮🇳

Modi-Shah's Branding of Bengali Migrants as ‘Bangladeshis’ is Fraught With Dangerous Consequences

Modi and his acolytes are handing Mamata Banerjee with a golden opportunity to overcome her embattled position and regain ground.

Saturday, 26 July 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

A sound I've never heard in my life - then the jet flew over my head

At least 31 people were killed, many of them schoolchildren, when a fighter jet crashed into a school in Bangladesh.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Mamata’s language war could push West Bengal to become ‘West Bangladesh’

Friday, 25 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

100s expelled to Bangladesh sans due process: HRW

The Tehran Times 🇮🇷

Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh join Iran’s call to break Gaza siege amid ‘death phase’

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan held an urgent phone call on Friday addressing the Israeli regime’s escalating war crimes in Palestine.

The Wire 🇮🇳

‘You Speak Bengali, So You Are Bangladeshi’: Muslim Families Across Delhi-NCR Allege Police Harassment

Families in Delhi and Ghaziabad told The Wire that the police harassed them even as they possessed a number of official Indian documents.

Thursday, 24 July 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Children Burned by Fighter Crash in Bangladesh Die Days Later

Many have died in the days since a plane crashed into a school in Bangladesh. For the survivors, there is a critical window for lifesaving treatment.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

‘Shoot them’: Sheikh Hasina ordered firing on Bangladesh protesters in 2024

Evidence obtained by Al Jazeera reveals the former Bangladesh leader ordered police to use ‘lethal weapons’.

The Economist 🇬🇧

“Bangla Teslas” give Musk a run for his money

E-rickshaws are overrunning Bangladeshi cities

BBC News 🇬🇧

'I did my best': Teacher dies after rescuing 20 kids from Bangladesh plane crash

Mahreen Chowdhury suffered burns to almost 100% of her body while saving students from the crash site.

Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪

India’s illegal expulsions to Bangladesh target Muslims: HRW

The Wire 🇮🇳

In Gurugram’s ‘Holding Centres’, Men Say They Are Detained Just for Speaking Bengali

Amidst the ongoing crackdown on suspected foreign nationals from Bangladesh, hundreds of Bengali and Assamese migrants have been detained and kept in what the Gurugram police call “holding centres”. 

Wednesday, 23 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

A yr later, how mobocracy replaced democracy in post-Hasina Bangladesh

The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱

How did a Bangladesh air force fighter jet crash into a school campus?

Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪

Bangladesh jet crash renews debate on training over cities

A jet crash during exercises has drawn calls to relocate bases and training from densely populated areas.

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

Death toll rises in Bangladesh air force jet crash

Deutsche Welle 🇩🇪

Bangladesh plane crash: Death toll rises, students protest

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Pakistan cricket hits new low! Bangladesh create history, clinch first-ever T20I series

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Witnesses Recall Deadly Bangladesh Plane Crash

At least 31 people were killed after a military jet crashed into a school building in Dhaka. The tragedy at the Milestone School and College has led to a national outpouring of grief.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh students demand accountability after deadly air force jet crash

Students’ demands include compensation for families, as well as new training procedures for the country’s air force.

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Students chant for justice after Bangladesh plane crash – video

BBC News 🇬🇧

What we know about the deadly Bangladesh jet crash into a school

The crash, which killed 27, marks the deadliest aviation disaster the country has seen in decades.

Monday, 21 July 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

'My friend died right in front of me' - Student describes moment air force jet crashed into school

Farhan Hasan had just sat an exam when a Bangladeshi air force jet crashed into his school, killing at least 20 people.

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Students Killed After Fighter Jet Crashes Into School in Bangladesh

The Bangladeshi military said that a mechanical error caused an Air Force training aircraft to crash onto a school campus for students ranging from elementary to high school.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Jet tragedy kills 'young students'; Bangladesh Cricket Board issues statement: 'Profound sorrow'

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Fire burns at Bangladesh school hit by deadly plane crash – video report

NPR 🇺🇸

A Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashes into a school in Dhaka and kills at least 20

July 21, 2025 • The Chinese-made F-7 BGI training jet experienced a "technical malfunction" moments after takeoff before it crashed into a school, according to Bangladesh's military.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh plane crash: What we know, what’s the latest

A Bangladesh Air Force F-7 crashed into a school in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood, killing at least 19 people.

The Times 🇬🇧

Fighter jet crashes into Bangladesh school, killing 19

Emergency crews in Dhaka battled flames and debris after the jet struck shortly after take-off, seriously injuring scores of students and staff

Le Monde 🇫🇷

Bangladesh fighter jet crashes into school, killing at least 16

The Irish Times 🇮🇪

At least 19 killed as Bangladesh air force plane crashes into college campus

The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱

At least 19 killed, scores injured as Bangladesh air force jet crashes into college campus

The Independent 🇬🇧

One dead as Bangladesh fighter jet crashes into college campus

Sunday, 20 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

How India can avoid a repeat of Bangladesh in J&K after Op Sindoor

Saturday, 19 July 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party rallies for fair elections

The South Asian country is expected to head to the polls next year.

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Bangladeshis linked to Hasina regime appear to have made UK property transactions in past year

The Wire 🇮🇳

After Enquiry, SAU Expels Bangladeshi Scholar After Clash Over Serving Fish on Hindu Fasting Day: Report

The move comes after an altercation occurred on February 26 between members of the Students' Federation of India and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad following the serving of fish curry on the day of Maha Shivratri

Friday, 18 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

SAU expels Bangladeshi doctoral scholar, fines mess secretary over Shivratri mess row

The Wire 🇮🇳

Poor Muslims, Uneducated, But Regular With Routine Police Visits: The People Assam Is 'Pushing Back' into Bangladesh

'We stood in knee-deep water, under the blazing sun, without food, medicine, or a place to sit.' Two women who found themselves pushed into Bangladesh recount a horrific ordeal.

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh braces for further unrest after four killed in clashes at rally

The Times of India 🇮🇳

'No ties with Satyajit Ray': Bangladesh says house was 'dilapidated, unusable'

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladeshi forces clash with supporters of ousted leader Hasina

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

India violating pacts, carrying on push-ins, says Bangladesh

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh police clash with pro-Hasina activists, at least three dead

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh begins demolition of Oscar-winning director’s home

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

The Wire 🇮🇳

India Offers to Work With Bangladesh to Restore Satyajit Ray’s Ancestral House

Bangladeshi media have reported that the ancestral home in Mymensingh city was being razed to make way for a new building.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

India tells Bangladesh to reconsider demolition of Satyajit Ray's ancestral home; offers support for repair

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh struggles to contain the fallout of an uprising that toppled its leader last year

Sunday, 13 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Ties bitter, but Bangladesh mango diplomacy still sweet enough

Financial Times 🇬🇧

WHO’s south-east Asia head ‘on leave’ after Bangladesh corruption allegations

Daughter of toppled PM Sheikh Hasina accused of fraud by country’s Anti-Corruption Commission

Saturday, 12 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Evening news wrap: Air India crash report points to possible fuel switch error; Instagram love story lands Bangladeshi woman in Indian jail; and more

Friday, 11 July 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Bangladesh caretaker government overturns use of ‘sir’ to address female officials

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN

The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead.

Thursday, 10 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Minorities under fire in Bangladesh: 2,442 hate crimes; ‘perpetrators enjoy impunity’

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Bangladesh’s ousted Sheikh Hasina charged with crimes against humanity

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh tribunal indicts Sheikh Hasina for crimes against humanity

Le Monde 🇫🇷

Bangladesh tribunal charges ousted prime minister Hasina over deaths of protesters

The prosecution argued Sheikh Hasina was directly responsible for ordering all state forces, her Awami League party and its associates to carry out actions leading to mass killings, injuries, targeted violence against women and children, the incineration of bodies and denial of medical treatment to the wounded.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh tribunal indicts ex-PM Hasina over protester deaths

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

'May have implications on India's stability': CDS warns of China-Pak-Bangladesh axis; watch

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

Ex-Bangladesh leader authorised deadly crackdown, leaked audio suggests

Sheikh Hasina authorised lethal force against protesters, according to leaked audio verified by the BBC.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Trump’s new tariffs: Who is hit, what’s next, how is the world responding?

Trump sent tariff letters to 14 countries including South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Bangladesh.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Bangladesh: Trial against Hasina part of political conflict, argues her lawyer

Monday, 7 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Türkiye eyes Bangladesh foothold. New security headache for India?

Saturday, 5 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

India’s tour of Bangladesh postponed; BCCI issues statement - more inside

Friday, 4 July 2025

The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱

Malaysia dismantles Islamic State network involving workers from Bangladesh

Muslim-majority Malaysia has detained hundreds of people for suspected militant activities after a 2016 attack in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, that was linked to Islamic State.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

‘Village of one kidney’: India-Bangladesh organ traffickers rob poor donors

Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Pakistan + China + Bangladesh: Is a new anti-India axis taking shape?

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina sentenced to six months in contempt case

Bangladesh’s interim government says the conviction shows commitment to justice.

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh reels after rape of Hindu woman filmed and shared online

Monday, 30 June 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Bangladesh after Pak? Why India wants to amend Ganga water pact

BBC News 🇬🇧

Uproar over sexual assault in Bangladesh after video spreads online

Protests broke out across the country after footage of the incident was circulated.

Sunday, 29 June 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

‘No Bangladeshi will dare come to Parbhani’: Owaisi slams BJP over border, intelligence claims

Saturday, 28 June 2025

Middle East Eye 🇬🇧

Exclusive: UAE ambassador’s firm linked to Bangladesh airports data deal

Top diplomat’s business links to Emirati-backed project to upgrade passenger information systems prompt conflict of interest concerns

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Bangladesh-Adani dues: Bangladesh pays $384 million to Adani Power, trims outstanding to $500 million

Friday, 27 June 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Foreign aid cuts hurt the most vulnerable in world’s largest refugee camp

In recent months, healthcare in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh has been badly affected by foreign aid cuts.

BBC News 🇬🇧

Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. Where do other countries stand?

India once gave citizenship to anyone born there, but immigration concerns - especially from Bangladesh - prompted tighter rules.

The Wire 🇮🇳

‘Makeshift’ Durga ‘Mandap’ Encroaching on Railways Land Was Lawfully Removed, Says Bangladesh

Its remarks come after New Delhi accused Dhaka of ‘allowing the temple's destruction’ following ‘clamouring by extremists’.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

India bans specific jute, textile items from Bangladesh: Imports permitted only through Nhava Sheva seaport - new trade restrictions explained

Thursday, 26 June 2025

The Wire 🇮🇳

We ‘Constantly Watch’ Matters With Bearing on India's Security: MEA on B'desh-China-Pak Meet

The MEA has also accused Bangladesh's interim government of “allowing the destruction” of a Durga temple in Dhaka.

The Independent 🇬🇧

Ousted Bangladesh leader’s lawyer removed for calling for her hanging

The Economist 🇬🇧

A big mistake by Bangladesh

Retribution is vying with reform

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

NPR 🇺🇸

Watch NPR's news roundup: Protests in Bangladesh and Elon Musk's first Tesla diner

Protests broke out today in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after a Bangladeshi air force plane crashed into a school campus yesterday. In Hollywood, Elon Musk has opened his first Tesla diner.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

SL vs BAN Live: Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh LIVE Score, 2nd Test Day 1

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

'They are not Bangladeshis': Mamata says Bengal migrants wrongfully held; slams BJP

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

‘Foreigners for both nations’: India pushing Muslims ‘back’ to Bangladesh

Hundreds taken to Bangladesh border at gunpoint in a crackdown by Assam, as some other BJP-ruled states follow suit.

Sunday, 22 June 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Advantage India! As West moves away from China & Bangladesh, India’s apparel exports see big growth; $120 billion US market biggest opportunity

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

The Wire 🇮🇳

Vandalism at Tagore’s Ancestral Home in Bangladesh: A Petty Incident Miscast as Communal Violence

As both nations navigate this sensitive period, the need for clear communication and a focus on shared cultural heritage, rather than reactive rhetoric, becomes paramount.

Monday, 16 June 2025

The Wire 🇮🇳

Man From West Bengal Working in Maharashtra Sent to Bangladesh Despite Govt Submitting Citizenship Proof

Despite the fact that the West Bengal police and the Migrant Welfare Board intervened with proof of Sheikh’s citizenship, he was pushed across the Bangladesh border by the Border Security Force (BSF).

Thursday, 12 June 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

Bangladesh leader declines to meet Tulip Siddiq

Muhammad Yunus says he has confidence in the Bangladeshi authorities investigating the Labour MP.

Financial Times 🇬🇧

UK freezes £185mn of properties linked to ex-Bangladesh minister

National Crime Agency seizes 342 properties associated with Saifuzzaman Chowdhury

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Starmer declines to meet Bangladesh interim leader tracking down missing billions

Muhammad Yunus says UK should feel ‘morally’ obliged to support hunt for cash siphoned off during Sheikh Hasina era

The Independent 🇬🇧

India ramps up deportation of alleged migrants to Bangladesh

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Bangladesh’s Yunus resists calls for early poll as revolution fervour fades

Interim leader sticks to timetable of vote by mid-2026 amid growing calls for him to step down sooner

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

'I was pushed across the border into Bangladesh at gunpoint'

The BBC met people in India's Assam who say they were accused of being illegal immigrants and forced across the border.

Financial Times 🇬🇧

This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is extravagant and impressive — but where’s the fun?

Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has created a vast hangar of dark timber and polycarbonate panels — with a ginkgo tree at its heart

Monday, 2 June 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Bangladesh’s Ousted Leader Faces New Arrest Warrant in Killing of Protesters

The war crimes tribunal that Sheikh Hasina herself founded has now charged her in the crackdown that killed more than a thousand demonstrators.

Sunday, 1 June 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Pakistan sweep series against Bangladesh as Haris hits 107 in third T20I

Opener scores 107 off 46 as Pakistan chase 197 with seven wickets in hand and 16 balls to spare for 3-0 series win.

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh ex-PM Sheikh Hasina charged with crimes against humanity

Friday, 30 May 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Pakistan seal T20 series against Bangladesh with 57-run win

Three wickets Abrar by followed fifties by Sahibzada and Nawaz as the hosts took a 2-0 series lead against Bangladesh.

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Pakistan’s Hasan Ali claims five wickets as Bangladesh beaten by 37 runs

Pakistan win the opening match of the three-game T20 series against Bangladesh by 37 runs in Lahore.

Saturday, 24 May 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Why is Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus considering resigning?

Political discord over when to hold elections and growing tensions with the armed forces have left government hamstrung.

Friday, 23 May 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

NCA freezes £90m of London property linked to former Bangladesh regime

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure

Muhammad Yunus has struggled to navigate between the army, career politicians and the protest movement that overthrew the country’s authoritarian leader last year.

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh’s Yunus ‘threatens to quit’ over lack of reform progress

Thursday, 22 May 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

UK crime agency freezes London properties linked to former Bangladesh regime

Move follows the ousting of former leader Sheikh Hasina amid allegations of embezzlement

Sunday, 18 May 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Will Sheikh Hasina face justice in Bangladesh?

Former prime minister is charged with crimes against humanity but fled to India in 2024.

The Economist 🇬🇧

After the revolution, Bangladesh is hoping to reform

Protests and spreadsheets are part of the process

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Can skateboarding transform lives in Bangladesh?

“We kept finding her on the streets so we involved her in our skate programs.”

The Independent 🇬🇧

Protests threaten to derail women’s rights reforms in Bangladesh

Sunday, 11 May 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Bangladesh Bans the Political Party of Its Ousted Former Ruler

Sheikh Hasina fled the country after a mass uprising against her government, but the party she led remained a factor in Bangladeshi politics.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Bangladesh bans activities of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina’s party

The move comes after a call for a commission to investigate the killing of protesters and establish national unity.

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh’s interim rulers ban ousted PM Sheikh Hasina’s party

Saturday, 10 May 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Bangladeshi interim cabinet bans all ousted Awami League party activities

Wednesday, 7 May 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

Bangladesh under pressure to hold elections as former premier returns

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Ex-leader Khaleda Zia returns to Bangladesh at ‘crucial time for democracy’

Zia’s presence raises pressure on the interim government to set election date nine months after her archrival’s ouster.

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Tariffs Could Wreck What Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Have Gained

In Bangladesh, the factories that make clothing for export had remade themselves and raised national incomes along the way. They never bargained for a trade war.

Sunday, 4 May 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

The woman braving tigers, crocodiles and pirates in Bangladesh’s mangroves

In the forest where she lives, Mahfuza spends her days navigating rivers where danger lurks.

Friday, 2 May 2025

The Times 🇬🇧

Bangladeshi man faces deportation 13 years after cheating English test

Thursday, 1 May 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

Businesses count costs as India and Bangladesh impose trade restrictions

Relations between the countries have been sour for months but differences were mostly expressed verbally until now.

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Rebuilding Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina’s fall

101 East investigates the downfall of Bangladesh’s ruthless regime and goes inside the fight to reclaim democracy.

Monday, 28 April 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Indian police detain ‘undocumented’ Bangladeshi migrants

Indian police have detained over 1,000 Bangladeshis in a major crackdown on alleged undocumented migrants in Gujarat.

The Times 🇬🇧

My Bangladeshi mum was made to feel like a burden

Sunday, 27 April 2025

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Muhammad Yunus: Real reform or just a new ruling class in Bangladesh?

Chief adviser of interim government discusses whether it represents true change or replaces one elite with another.

Thursday, 24 April 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

Zimbabwe wrap up first Test win in four years

Zimbabwe win their first Test match in four years with a three-wicket victory over Bangladesh in Sylhet.