Bangladeshis say they are suffering from inflated costs for food and gas after the government imposed a steep hike on fuel prices last week, an overnight move that has deepened economic discontent and spurred street protests in the South Asian nation
Unidentified assailants fatally shot two Rohingya leaders as they returned home after overseeing community night-watch duties at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, police said Wednesday
Bangladesh was deprived of nearly U.S. $2 billion in monthly remittances sent via legitimate banking channels because expatriate workers instead used a black market transfer method called Hundi to send money home, the finance minister told reporters on Wednesday
Bangladesh’s cabinet on Monday approved a legal amendment to bar defense lawyers from questioning the character of plaintiffs in this cases, except in special circumstances approved by the court, and to remove a related clause from a law that dates back 150 years
Press advocates and relatives of journalist Hasibur Rahman Rubel are calling on authorities to swiftly investigate his death earlier this month – the fourth Bangladeshi reporter to die under suspicious circumstances this year
Eighty-year-old Nobel Prize winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus has issued a comprehensive rebuttal of years of criticism from the Bangladesh government, stating, among other points, that he had no involvement in the World Bank’s cancellation of financing ten years ago for the Padma Bridge
The ARSA rebel leader ordered the killing of Rohingya activist Muhib Ullah at a Bangladeshi refugee camp last year, police in the South Asian country said in recommending murder charges against 29 suspects, although the insurgent group denied being involved
Bangladesh’s decision to shut down a leading human rights group that documented alleged extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances will have a “chilling effect,” the United Nations said Friday, a day after 11 rights advocacy organizations jointly raised similar concerns
The Bangladesh government’s intention in shutting down a leading human rights advocacy group, Odhikar, was to create a climate of fear for non-governmental organizations who raise concerns about the rights situation in the country, activists said on Tuesday
An operator of a shipping container yard failed to notify firefighters about a stockpile of chemicals that exploded in a series of deadly blasts as they responded to a fire near Chittagong’s port over the weekend, Bangladeshi authorities said Monday