4-member EU team expected soon

While Washington had been repeating its calls for a free and fair election in Bangladesh, Delhi, after much silence, told the US at a meeting that it was Bangladesh's "internal issue". What are the big powers saying, doing, and why? Washington-based geopolitical analyst Michael Kugelman, director of South Asia Institute at the Washington-based Wilson Center, explains in an email interview with Star

India has reiterated that the people of Bangladesh will decide about their election scheduled to be held on January 7 next year

The US Department of State will begin implementing key actions from President Biden's Presidential Memorandum on "Advancing Worker Empowerment, Rights, and High Labor Standards Globally"

Says foreign ministry

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said the relationship between Bangladesh and India today stands out as a model in terms of shared benefits

Bangladesh needs to put in more effort to comply with the core Everything But Arms (EBA) conventions such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and safeguard the freedom of association, freedom of expression and assembly, the EU said.

The US wants an election in Bangladesh that will be violence-free, said US State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller on Tuesday.

Violence or threats of violence directed at diplomatic personnel is unacceptable and deeply troubling, the US Embassy in Dhaka said today

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas today held meeting with top officials of World Bank and International Monetary Fund working in Bangladesh about the country’s development issues.

The US wants an election in Bangladesh that will be violence-free, said US State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller yesterday

The number of Bangladeshi students studying in the United States has reached an all-time high, according to the 2023 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange

The US State Department has said, “The future of the Bangladeshi government should be determined by its people, full stop”.

The government is extending all-out cooperation so that a free and fair election can be held in a peaceful manner, Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary M Tofazzel Hossain Miah told a European Union delegation in Dhaka today

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori paid a courtesy call on Rajshahi City Corporation Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton in the city this afternoon

Representatives of trade unions and workers organisations today met the visiting delegation of the European Union and discussed workers' rights

China needs to change the perception that projects under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cause debt-trap, corruption to establish itself as a global power, said experts

International Human Rights Commission Bangladesh Chapter President MA Hashem Raju filed the case against Mujibul Haque, who also serves as the convener of the union unit of Awami League, and others for their alleged offences

The US government wants an unconditional dialogue among political parties in the country to resolve the political crisis over the upcoming election, US Assistant Secretary Donald Lu has said

A Russian naval group has called at the port of Chattogram for the first time in almost half a century