Despite promises of initiatives to empower women, Bangladesh elected the fewest number of female MPs in 25 years. One of the few new female MPs told DW that female candidates are systemically ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, has won a two-thirds majority in the South Asian country’s historic ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, one of the South Asian nation’s two entrenched political factions, claimed a decisive victory this morning in Bangladesh’s first election since the 2024 student-led ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vote counting is continuing in Bangladesh, and local media are reporting results based on provisional tallies announced by the top ...

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 ...

Mr. Hussain, a former lead economist on Bangladesh for the World Bank, wrote from Dhaka. Mr. Joehnk, a former Bangladesh correspondent for The Economist, wrote from London. A year and a half ago, ...

Washington agrees to create a mechanism for zero reciprocal tariffs Bangladesh to lower some tariffs over several years, ease non-tariff barriers for US goods Bangladesh pledges to by $15 bln in US ...

The United States of America (the United States) and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (Bangladesh) have agreed to an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (Agreement) to strengthen our bilateral economic ...

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 ...

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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.