On one hand, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman was delivering a message of Bengalis’ global triumph at the National Book Fair; on the other, at the opposite end of the capital, indigenous leaders and ...

Bangladesh’s new prime minister has been sworn in after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections last week, the ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Tarique Rahman was sworn in as prime minister on Tuesday, marking an important ...

Here are five takeaways from TIME’s exclusive interview with Tarique Rahman, who looks set to become the nation’s new Prime Minister.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladesh Nationalist Party headed by the son of a former prime minister was projected to form the next government as the South Asian nation on Thursday held its first ...

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Cha Jun-hwan earned 50.08 points in technical elements (TES) and 42.64 points in program components (PCS), totaling 92.72 points in the men’s singles short program at the 2026 Milano-Cortina d’Ampezzo ...

Winner of the Big Screen Competition at Rotterdam, Rezwan Shahriar Sumit's second feature follows an idealistic history teacher whose career swerve into local politics leaves him a changed man. To ...

My name is Krishna Nandi. I am a Hindu. I am a businessman. I am also a parliamentary candidate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. For many readers, this combination appears unusual. For me, it reflects a ...

London, United Kingdom — Behind the fluorescent-lit glass counters, silver trays of singhara — also known as samosa — biryani and hash browns sit side by side. Two men in forest-green polo shirts, the ...

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The Khulna-1 seat has a history of electing Hindu community candidates. In what is being seen as the strongest minority outreach by Bangladesh's radical Islamists, Jamaat-E-Islami leader Shafiqur ...