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For most of his adult life, Rafiul Alam did not believe that voting was worth the walk to the polling station. He is 27, grew up in a middle-class neighbourhood of Dhaka, and became eligible to vote ...

On February 12, Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its first general elections since the country’s August 2024 Monsoon revolution. But ahead of the elections, attacks on women, girls, and religious ...

Akshay Kumar's 'Bhooth Bangla' has a new release date: May 15, 2026. This horror-comedy, reuniting Kumar with director Priyadarshan after 14 years, promises a return to slapstick scares. The film, ...

Inclusion of Bangladeshi cricketer Mustafizur Rahman in the IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, co-owned by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, has kicked up a political row with leaders of the Bharatiya ...

Dhaka’s already strained relationship with New Delhi has come under fresh pressure after a Bangladeshi opposition leader threatened to shelter separatists targeting India’s sensitive northeast region ...

Habiul Biswas and his wife Sajda Biswas quietly step down from a vehicle and walk towards a row of closed shops near Hakimpur border checkpost in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. The check ...

United Nations human rights experts have highlighted “widespread and systematic” exploitation, deception, and deepening debt bondage of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. Over 800,000 Bangladeshis have ...

The stories of Bangladeshi women who have moved to the UK have been used to create an art installation. Women from Middlesbrough were among those involved in Stitching Light, a textile and light ...

Reverse exodus is being witnessed along India-Bangladesh border in South Bengal as illegal Bangladeshi nationals are attempting to go back to their country amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision ...

Kolkata, The number of illegal Bangladeshi nationals attempting to cross the India-Bangladesh border in South Bengal has risen sharply in recent weeks, a surge that is being linked to the ongoing ...

She ran away from home in Bangladesh after she failed a subject in school, and ended up in a sex racket across the border in India, where 200 men sexually assaulted her in three months since — this is ...