UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday announced the appointment of Bangladeshi Major General Mohammad Asadullah Minhazul Alam as Force Commander of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ...

India’s Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi man along the Dhabolguri border while he was allegedly attempting to cross into the country on Wednesday, a Border Guard Bangladesh official was ...

UN assists in emergency vaccination drive as country battles worst surge in cases in years amid fall in vaccination rates Bangladesh is battling its worse measles outbreak in years, with more than 100 ...

At New Five Star, a cafe and restaurant on Unionport Road in Parkchester, nearly every table is filled with customers speaking Bengali. “It’s so much fun, and I’m listening to everybody,” said owner ...

Bangladesh will likely commission its first nuclear reactor within months, a long-delayed start that comes as the government grapples with acute energy shortages caused by war and trade disruption in ...

A Bangladeshi national extradited from Malaysia this week is accused of carrying out one of the most prolific online child exploitation schemes the United States has ever seen in a wide-ranging ...

FBI officials escort Zobaidul Amin to a flight to Alaska to face federal charges related to child sexual exploitation. A Bangladeshi national extradited to Alaska on child sexual exploitation charges ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairman Tarique Rahman takes oath as prime minister during a swearing-in ceremony at the National Parliament building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 17, 2026.

The Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) has won a landslide majority in the country’s first election since an uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Results from the election ...

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 ...

Nadia Chaudhury is a born-and-raised New Yorker who is the deputy editor for Eater’s Northeast region and Eater New York, was the former Eater Austin editor for 10 years, and often writes about food ...

Bangladesh’s February 2026 election, following the 2024 Monsoon Revolution and the fall of Sheikh Hasina, will test whether the country’s interim government can deliver a credible vote amid ...