By Mark Buckton - Taipei As Bangladesh heads towards a tense general election on February 12 – its first since the sudden ...

After toppling Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's newest political party faces its first election next month, testing a newly formed ...

If Bangladesh can institutionalize a fair electoral system, it will go a long way toward breaking a long-standing cycle of political unrest. Bangladesh’s political landscape has long been marred by ...

Bangladesh’s first palpably free and fair election in 17 years will also be accompanied by a constitutional referendum — a ...

Bangladesh is currently experiencing a period of significant political change following the removal of Sheikh Hasina's government in 2024. The country is now under the leadership of an interim ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Last summer, 26-year-old Bangladeshi student activist Nahid Islam did the unthinkable. Along with a few companions, he set the stage to bring down the authoritarian Prime Minister ...

The collapse of traditional party systems is a familiar crisis across many contemporary democracies. Italian political scientist Piero Ignazi, writing in “The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New ...

Former US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena said, “For a long time, Bangladesh’s democracy was trapped within a ...

Following Bangladesh's July 2024 revolution and the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government, minority communities faced complex challenges amidst political chaos. While Indian media portrayed systematic ...

The Muslim-majority nation of 170 million will hold its first elections since the uprising on Feb 12, with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, widely expected to perform ...

Dhaka, Jan. 27 -- Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur on Tuesday called for urgent legal reforms to shield the country's banking system from political interference, stressing that institutional ...