Bangladesh protests death toll nears 180, with more than 2,500 people arrested after days of unrest. ... mostly for the children and grandchildren of "freedom fighters" from the 1971 war. ...

He later released a controversial map depicting West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam as parts of Bangladesh. However, after the post sparked widespread backlash, it was subsequently deleted. Attempt to ...

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of office as head of an interim government in Bangladesh after large-scale protests led to the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina.. The prominent ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for government job applicants, a partial victory for student protesters after days of nationwide ...

Tehseen Poonawalla’s sharp response to a ‘Greater Bangladesh’ map has sparked a fresh wave of political discourse between India and Bangladesh. His remarks come in the context of increasing ...

Thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar walk along a muddy rice field after crossing the border in Bangladesh in 2017. A 10-year-old-girl named Switan looks into a restaurant window in ...

Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have demanded an end to a quota that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sunday rolled back most of the controversial quotas on government jobs which sparked violent protests.. Under the quota system, some 30% of sought-after civil ...

Bangladesh’s foreign secretary, Jashim Uddin, said that during the talks, he raised historically “unsettled issues” with Pakistan, including a formal public apology for atrocities committed ...

Bangladesh's top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for government job applicants, a partial victory for student protesters after days of nationwide unrest and deadly clashes ...