Unlike 2014, opposition parties participated in 2018, believing that contesting would at least ensure a degree of competitiveness. What they failed to anticipate was the scale, coordination and instit ...

Young people, who make up 44 percent of voters, ousted Hasina. But they've never seen a competitive election, until now.

At least 16 political activists have been killed since elections were announced in December.

For decades, Bangladesh’s politics centered around two powerful women: Khaleda Zia, the country’s first female prime minister, and Sheikh Hasina, the nation’s longest-ruling prime minister and Zia's ...

Just days before Bangladesh gears up to hold one of its most decisive general elections, the banned political party Awami ...

DHAKA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Khaleda Zia, who became Bangladesh's first female prime minister in 1991 and went on to develop a bitter rivalry with Sheikh Hasina as they spent decades trading power, died ...

What do people gain by voting? In 55 years of independence, the people have voted countless times. What have they received?

A favourable breeze for the restoration of democracy has begun to blow—if this is disrupted for any reason, the country risks ...

With the Awami League barred from contesting, opposition parties are eyeing its millions of supporters, while the interim ...

Judicial, tax, foreign reforms took centre stage in Modi’s first term, before reservation caught up by in 2019 ...

Hasinur Rahman, a victim of enforced disappearance, today began giving his deposition before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) as the second prosecution witness in a case over alleged ...

Evidence has been found that, in high-profile disappearance cases, the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her security ...