Parvathy Baul aims to reclaim Baul music's historical roots in the Buddhist Sahajiya tradition through performances of ancient Bengali songs. She talks to Lounge on collaborating with Ustad Bahauddin ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's incoming leader said Saturday that he would work to build a more democratic country, overcoming challenges related to weak institutions after his party secured an ...

A Bangladeshi migrant has secured the right to remain in Britain after a court ruled that deporting him would likely send him to prison for 20 years. The man, identified in court as MM, persuaded the ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Polls opened across Bangladesh on Thursday for voters to cast ballots in a parliamentary election seen as a critical test of the country’s democracy after years of political ...

The national elections were the first since 2024, when a student movement ousted the prime minister of the South Asian country. By Anupreeta Das and Saif Hasnat Reporting from Dhaka Bangladesh voted ...

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 ...

EIGHTEEN MONTHS have passed since a revolution in Bangladesh brought down the despotic Sheikh Hasina Wajed and her thuggish Awami League. On February 12th the country of 176m people will hold a ...

On February 12, Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its first general elections since the country’s August 2024 Monsoon revolution. But ahead of the elections, attacks on women, girls, and religious ...

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former premier defined the country’s politics for a generation, has died, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said in a ...

The murder of Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, who had participated in the July Uprising, which resulted in the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government, has triggered violent chaos in Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh Air Force has signed a letter of intent with Italian manufacturer Leonardo for the future provision of Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighter aircraft. In another step towards ...

She was once cast as a secular heroine, the daughter of a revolutionary leader, whose brutal assassination in the 1970s defined her political ascent. But Sheikh Hasina’s rise to the top of ...