Bangladesh

Clients of China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are asking Beijing for help with spiking energy costs due to the Iran conflict, but so far China has reportedly offered little assistance, instead shutting down fuel exports to conserve its own energy stockpiles and protect its own economy.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a two-thirds majority of parliamentary seats in Thursday’s election.

Bangladesh on Thursday held its first general election since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted by violent riots in August 2024.

The Dhaka Special Court in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to ten years in prison on two corruption indictments.

Hindus in the Indian capital of New Delhi protested on Tuesday after a Hindu man was lynched and burned alive by a mob in Bangladesh.

UK Parliamentarian Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced in absentia for what a Bangladeshi court said was her role in a corruption plot.

Ousted former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, a Dhaka war crimes court ruled on Monday.

A group of London Tower Hamlets councillors are running for Parliament in Bangladesh, a report states.

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid, who resigned and fled the country in August 2024 amid violent protests, confirmed on Wednesday that she has been living in India since her abdication – and she “would love to go home,” if “law and order genuinely prevailed.”

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday that millions of voters in her party, the Awami League, will boycott next year’s election after the party was barred from contesting the polls.

The UK government’s anti-homelessness minister resigned over swirling claims that she evicted tenants from a property before hiking the rent.

A Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed into a school in the capital Dhaka on Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 170.

The Chinese government issued a warning, the state-run Global Times reported on Monday, to its male citizens in Bangladesh discouraging the use of local matchmaking services or acceptance of offers to “buy” a wife — a growing threat to social stability as the nation’s marriage rate plummets and gender disparity skyrockets.

Thousands of angry Islamist men marched Saturday across the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to protest against proposals guaranteeing equal rights for women in the Muslim-majority country.

Britain’s anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq, whose aunt is the ousted PM of Bangladesh, has resigned while protesting her innocence. 

Selcuk Bayraktar, chief technology officer of Turkey’s drone powerhouse Baykar, said on Thursday that Turkish companies now control 65 percent of the worldwide market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

Former American President Donald Trump marked Diwali on Thursday, one of the largest Hindu celebrations of the year, vowing to protect the religious freedom of Hindu Americans and making a final pitch to Indian American voters generally.

Hijab-wearing constable praised as a “role model” for wielding baton against anti-lockdown protesters while in religious dress faces misconduct hearing.

The former head of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, allegedly sold dead bodies and biomedical waste.

A Hindu mob in Ghaziabad, India, attacked a group of Muslims on Friday night, apparently as an act of revenge for Muslim mobs targeting Hindus in Bangladesh following the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last week.

Sheikh Hasina Wajid, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, issued a statement on Sunday accusing the U.S. government of orchestrating the events that led to her abdication last week, because she refused to give the U.S. control over a strategic island in the Bay of Bengal.

The Bangladeshi Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) said on Tuesday that hundreds of Hindu homes, businesses, and temples have been vandalized since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced out of office by protesters over the weekend.

Indian intelligence officials on Tuesday accused China and Pakistan of orchestrating the protests that drove Prime Minister Sheik Hasina of Bangladesh to resign and flee the country.

Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, resigned on Monday and fled the country after a month of huge anti-government protests.

The Indian state of Kerala issued a health alert on Monday after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus. Over a hundred other residents in the area have been identified as high-risk potential patients.

A consortium of media agencies in Germany and Sweden reported on Tuesday that members of Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan security units accused of torturing prisoners are being deployed on dozens of U.N. peacekeeping missions, adding another scandal to a string of embarrassments for the United Nations.

The Indian government announced plans to implement a controversial 2019 law that fast-tracks citizenship for non-Muslim refugees.

Woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State has lost appeal against UK government’s decision to revoke her citizenship.

Anastazja Rubinska was found dead after a search for the missing Polish citizen, with a 32-year-old Bangladeshi citizen arrested.

A 15-year-old from Bangladesh who accidentally became locked inside a shipping container while playing hide-and-seek ended up far from home.

An Italian policewoman in Naples who had just left work for the evening was reportedly raped by a Bangladeshi migrant after being attacked from behind.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

Muslims across India on Friday continued protests sparked by comments from a now-suspended spokeswoman for the ruling Hindu-nationalist BJP party that were denounced as insulting to Islam’s Muhammad.

A source inside the Indian government said on Monday that several desperate foreign countries are pleading with India to supply over 1.5 million tons of wheat, to compensate for shortfalls from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other factors.

Two Bangladeshis were arrested by Italian police after allegedly blackmailing a woman with sexual material they had stolen from her phone. 

Tower Hamlets, London, has voted for Mohammad Lutfur Rahman — removed from office for “corrupt and illegal practices” in a 2014 election — as Mayor.