Bangladesh
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Bangladesh removes Sheikh Mujib’s image from currency
Bangladesh has started issuing new banknotes removing images of its founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, nearly a year after the South Asian country witnessed a massive uprising. Hasina...June 2, 2025 157 0 -
Debutant Haris hits scintillating century to power Pakistan to clean sweep against Bangladesh
A debutant century by Muhammad Haris saw Pakistan achieve a clean sweep Bangladesd in the three-match T20 cricket series on Sunday. Batsmen played an important role in Pakistan’s 7-wicket victory the hosts invited Bangladesh to bat...June 2, 2025 435 0 -
Hasan Ali picks 5 wickets to fire Pakistan to 37-run victory in first T20 against Bangladesh
Salman Agha makes 56 as 201 target proves to be too big for Bangladesh...Read MoreMay 28, 2025 266 0 -
Bangladesh cancels defense deal with India
Bangladesh has cancelled a $21 million (Indian Rs 1.8 billion) deal with an Indian state-run shipbuilding firm for the construction of an advanced ocean-going tugboat amid strained relations between the two South Asian countries. The relations...May 24, 2025 114 0 -
South Asia to grow 6.5% in 2025, global growth drops to 2.3% amid trade wars
India is projected to grow by 6.5 per cent...Read MoreApril 17, 2025 265 0 -
Bangladesh violence kills 11 as protests mar Modi’s visit
Eleven people were killed and dozens injured in violent protests that raged during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka on the occasion of the golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence. Protestors including members of...March 29, 2021 700 0 -
A poet’s anguish: ‘They are taking them away’
sullen shine the stars the moon in agony aloof so still stand the palm trees the seasons are bearing my dreams away sanity suspended while all the dark horrors of the mind uncoil slowly snakely settle...June 2, 2019 771 0 -
Angelina Jolie: The way Rohingya have been treated shames us all
The plight of Rohingya is back in spotlight thanks to UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie’s visit to the refugees in Bangladesh, where they have been allowed to live in camps after fleeing Myanmar’s persecution of the...February 5, 2019 1160 1 -
Pakistan and India figure low on 2018 Human Development Index
Pakistan, which has oscillated between periods of development and unstable growth, and India, despite sustained growth over several years but with highly uneven distribution of wealth, were placed 150th and 130th respectively on U.N.’s 2018 Human...September 14, 2018 1082 0 -
What is driving Bangladesh’s amazing economic success?
Dhaka, the capital Photo: ASaber91/Wikimedia Commons During much of the period before 1971, policymakers generally considered baby boom and natural disasters like cyclones and floods in the then East Pakistan and now Bangladesh as the major...May 30, 2018 1538 0
