The Bangladeshi military announced Jan. 19 it had foiled a coup plot to unseat the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sheik Hasina. An army spokesman pinned the “heinous conspiracy” ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up After a long period of military rule, the military’s overt role in politics has diminished since the 1990s – as evidenced by its restrained role ...

Activists want the autocratic prime minister to step down. Now to Bangladesh, a country of more than 170 million people who inhabit a place a little bigger than Iowa. It has just experienced some of ...

Radical changes to the school curriculum are routine in Bangladesh - Copyright AFP Munir Uz Zaman Radical changes to the school curriculum are routine in Bangladesh ...

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The church no longer exists, and a Muslim family has since settled on the land. However, the district’s official website still preserves its history online. A garden now occupies the site of ...

Bangladesh’s 13th parliamentary election will be remembered as a ‘role model’ in the country’s electoral history, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday. Speaking ...