Neighbouring Bangladesh is hotting up, not just literally in terms of the weather but also in terms of the political churn ...

Visiting Dhaka in January, it felt like the climate of fear that had pervaded the country for many years had finally been ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he hoped that their recent independent fact-finding report will support truth-telling, accountability, reparations, healing and reform. "It will ...

Some of the students who took part in last year’s uprising that ousted the nation’s autocratic leader are leaving the interim ...

The discovery came from a small-scale targeted screening of patient samples in 2023, revealing five Zika virus cases in Dhaka, according to a report published on the icddr,b website today (3 March).

Analysts say China is making overtures while diplomatic tensions have risen between Bangladesh and India on a range of issues ...

Over the weekend the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a new setback in Uganda's Ebola Sudan outbreak. The country ...

A United Nations investigation released this month into last year’s deadly student-led protests in Bangladesh found that up to 13% of the victims were children, with most deaths likely caused by ...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, underscored UNHCR’s unwavering commitment to supporting 1 million Rohingya refugees hosted in Bangladesh as he completed a four-day visit to the ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Residents in southern Bangladesh on Monday attacked an air force base following an altercation, prompting soldiers from the base to open fire, killing at least one person and ...

Bangladesh has resumed direct trade with Pakistan for the first time since its independence in 1971, with the first shipment of 50,000 tonnes of rice leaving Port Qasim under a ...

Reports in Bangladesh say a group of residents has attacked an air force base, prompting soldiers to open fire that killed at least one person.