Bangladeshi voters have endorsed sweeping democratic reforms in a national referendum, the Election Commission said on Friday (February 13, 2026), a key pillar of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad ...

Bangladesh will go to the polls for the first time since its government collapsed in 2024 during a bloody crackdown on protesters. More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in the country's ...

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Tarique Rahman, the scion of a political dynasty, is set to become the prime minister. This was the first election in Bangladesh since student-led protests toppled the last government in 2024. Tarique ...

The most dreaded part of Mainul Islam’s journey back to Saudi Arabia is passing through Dhaka International Airport. The 34-year-old construction worker’s journey to Dammam begins with a five-hour ...

Tarique Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has declared victory after scoring a two-thirds majority, official results are still awaited. BNP and allies has won 155 seats, while Jamaat & ...

1:13What do we know about Bangladesh's next prime minister? 00:01:13, play videoWhat do we know about Bangladesh's next prime minister? 0:21Bangladeshi people tell the BBC their hopes for the future.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has won a majority of more than two-thirds of seats in parliament in a landmark election This is a huge change of fortunes for BNP leader Tarique Rahman who ...