Private fuel imports trigger concern

Bangladesh, Aug. 12 -- The government's plan to open refined fuel imports and distribution to private companies has triggered concerns that control of the strategically important market could become c... Read More

BNP settles on Fakhrul for presidency

Bangladesh, Aug. 10 -- BNP Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is poised to become Bangladesh's next president after BNP Cha... Read More

Despite rifts, parties unite against Hasina return

Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- Ruling party BNP, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizen Party (NCP) have clashed repeatedly in recent weeks - their leaders and workers trading accusations and, at ... Read More

Promise still waits two years after Uprising

Bangladesh, Aug. 5 -- They died in the streets so that Bangladesh could be free of fascism. Two years later, as the nation marks July Mass Uprising Day today, the students and common people who paid t... Read More

One fire, economy stalls

Bangladesh, July 27 -- A fire at a single floating LNG terminal off the coast of Cox's Bazar has plunged much of Bangladesh into its worst gas crunch in years, idling factories, emptying stoves in mil... Read More

From 'Sheikh Hasina does not flee' to flight

Bangladesh, July 22 -- On July 22, 2024, Bangladesh was gripped by one of the most critical moments of the student-led quota reform movement. A nationwide curfew was in force, the army patrolled the ... Read More

BNP moves to calm restless allies ahead of local polls

Bangladesh, July 20 -- Five months after forming the government, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is making its first formal attempt to address mounting frustration among the smaller parties tha... Read More

Govt, opposition at odds over constitutional reform

Bangladesh, July 16 -- The government has decided to pursue constitutional reform through a special parliamentary committee, rejecting the opposition's demand for a separate Constitution Reform Counci... Read More

Floods leave trail of death, economic ruin

Bangladesh, July 13 -- The country is grappling with a mounting human and economic toll from days of heavy rainfall, flash floods and landslides, with the death toll rising to 51 even as the destructi... Read More

Chronic risks exposed as monsoon landslides kill 11

Bangladesh, July 8 -- At least 11 people have been killed in a series of landslides triggered by four days of relentless monsoon rain in Cox's Bazar, with officials blaming decades of deforestation, i... Read More

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