DHAKA, Bangladesh — The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has claimed victory in the South Asian country’s first election since the 2024 uprising, positioning itself to form the next government and ...

Jyrki Raina, former general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, which represents more than 50 million working people worldwide, can sum up labor conditions in the garment industry in a single ...

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 ...

Bangladesh’s reign as the world’s second-largest exporter of garments after China could soon be overthrown by Vietnam, providing one of the clearest signs that its economic and political woes have ...

Michael Kugelman is director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. This article is published as part of NPR's 2024 Year of Global Elections series. It has happened many ...

A large part of Bangladesh, the country with the highest number of rivers, is a delta formed by sediments carried down by rivers from the Himalayan region. The population’s most significant ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rehman delivering his historic speech at the Ramna Race Course (now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka on March 7, 1971. Credit: Wikipedia Subscribe for ads-free reading Bangladesh ...

Dhaka, December 22, 2024 —Bangladesh and the World Bank signed two financing agreements totaling $900 million today to help the country achieve environment sustainability, inclusive growth and climate ...