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Bangladesh

  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    India accuses Bangladesh’s interim leaders of failing to protect Hindus

    Rising tensions complicate attempts to mend a vital partnership after Sheikh Hasina was toppled

    Protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Global fashion brands cut Bangladesh orders after turmoil

    Producers in world’s second-largest garment exporter say customers are concerned about violence and disruption

    A worker at Apex Footwear in Dhaka
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    ‘Dhaka has turned into Gotham’: On patrol with Bangladesh’s vigilantes

    Neighbourhood groups try to impose order after collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s regime leaves security vacuum

    Syed Bipro stands with a cricket bat resting on his shoulder
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Muhammad Yunus
    Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for free speech and independent judiciary

    Interim government leader and Nobel laureate says Sheikh Hasina left behind ‘complete mess’

    Yunus sits surrounded by the family and officials
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Alec Russell
    How autocracies endure — and end

    Strongmen rulers are not immune to a wave of incumbency fatigue spreading across the world

    Illustration of a military helicopter with the blades and rear rota drawn as a red X from a ballot paper
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Students take charge of Bangladesh megacity after ousting Sheikh Hasina

    Protesters who toppled the long-ruling prime minister now control the streets of Dhaka, but challenges loom

    Young people wave and cheer in front of a fire at the PM’s official residence
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Person in the News
    Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate charged with restoring peace in Bangladesh

    The octogenarian micro-lending pioneer has the fate of the world’s eighth-most populous country in his hands

    An elderly Indian man holds up his hand to wave
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Yunus warns against Bangladesh anarchy

    Nobel Peace Prize winner sworn in as head of interim government leader after appeal for end to violence

    Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus arriving at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Google and Meta’s secret deal

    Campaign on YouTube to boost Instagram’s appeal to young people skirted Google’s rules

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    India’s Bangladesh bet backfires after Sheikh Hasina ousted

    Toppling of long-governing prime minister is a major setback for New Delhi

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in June 2024
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for new elections after political turmoil

    Nobel laureate agrees to lead interim government after protests toppled autocrat Sheikh Hasina

    Protesters celebrate Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in Dhaka on Monday
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to head interim government in Bangladesh

    Appointment announced after dissolution of parliament opens way for creation of interim cabinet

    Bangladesh Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka in January
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Bangladesh’s power vacuum

    A swift transition to a democratically elected government is vital

    Protesters try to demolish a large statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned as Prime Minister, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    News in-depthSheikh Hasina
    How the world’s longest-serving female leader was toppled

    Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule over Bangladesh met a sudden end. Now protesters worry about what’s next

    Protesters overrun Sheikh Hasina’s grand residence in central Dhaka
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees country

    Army chief announces long-ruling leader’s departure after demonstrators storm her official residence

    Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Scores killed in Bangladesh as pressure mounts on Sheikh Hasina

    Army deployed to enforce ‘indefinite’ curfew after garment factories and government buildings set on fire

    A garment store on fire
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Bangladesh garment sector rocked by protest crackdown

    Curfew and communications blackout raises shipping costs and shakes confidence in major global exporter

    Workers check burnt garments at a factory in Dhaka
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Bangladesh top court scales back job quotas that sparked violent unrest

    Quota system had triggered deadly protests that resulted in clashes with security forces

    Armed soldiers in armoured vehicles patrol the streets
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Dozens killed in Bangladesh unrest as protests spread

    Anger over job quotas highlights deep economic distress in the world’s second-largest garment exporter

    Aerial view of smoke rising from burning vehicles near the Disaster Management Directorate office in Dhaka
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    InterviewArchitecture
    A tiny house to tackle climate change pops up on the Vitra Campus in Germany

    Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed the dwelling to provide housing in areas prone to flooding

    A steep-roofed structure built on bamboo stilts has a ladder leading the the living space above ground; at the front, a window is open
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    InterviewIndian economy
    India risks ‘squandering’ demographic dividend, says World Bank

    South Asia has world’s fastest economic growth but is failing to create jobs, says multilateral lender

    Indian villagers work on a cumin crop in Rajasthan
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in power at Bangladesh election

    Crackdown on opposition and rights abuses have drawn criticism from US and EU

    Officials count ballot papers at a polling station in Dhaka after the end of the Bangladesh election on Sunday
  • Saturday, 6 January, 2024
    Person in the News
    Sheikh Hasina: the Bangladeshi premier determined to retain power

    Re-election appears certain but economic strains may test the population’s patience with her autocratic style

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Sheikh Hasina
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    News in-depth
    Bangladesh election raises fears of descent into one-party rule

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hobbled political opposition but faces mounting economic turbulence

    Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waves the Bangladeshi flag at a campaign event on Wednesday
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    Bangladeshi court sentences Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to 6 months in prison

    Microfinance pioneer is a long and bitter rival of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

    Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus outside the court in Dhaka on Monday
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