The Bangladesh government has formed a fact-finding committee to look into the BPL's non-payment of players during the 2024-25 season. The country's sports ministry made the announcement on Thursday,

Train services in Bangladesh resumed on Wednesday after railway workers ended their indefinite strike, which had brought the country’s rail network to a halt.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s largest minority rights group accused the country’s interim government on Thursday of failing to protect religious and ethnic minorities from attacks and harassment, a claim the government has denied.

Train services in Bangladesh came to a standstill on Tuesday as railway staff, demanding benefits for extra work, went on a nationwide indefinite strike that hit hundreds of thousands of people. A long-standing dispute over overtime pay and pension benefits for railway workers led to staff abstaining from work,

Trains have been canceled across Bangladesh as railway workers went on strike for higher pensions and other benefits.

On Thursday, 17 players, including captain Sabina Khatun, delivered a written statement to journalists outside the BFF headquarters, outlining a series of allegations that underpin their demand for Butler's resignation.

Misrepresented images continued to swirl on social media around the unrest in Myanmar's western Rakhine state that is riven with ethnic and religious divisions. Burmese Facebook posts in January shared a photo of a violent scuffle they falsely claimed shows militants attacking a rival rebel group that controls large parts of Rakhine.

Bangladesh's largest minority rights group accuses the current interim government, led by Muhammad Yunus, of failing to protect religious and ethnic minorities from violence. The government denies these claims,

In its latest Watch List, published today (30 January), Bangladesh found its name alongside Moldova, Colombia, North Korea, Sudan, the Great Lakes, Ukraine, Syria, Israel-Palestine and Iran. Each year, ICG publishes an "EU Watchlist", identifying where the European Union and its member states can enhance prospects for peace.

The head of Bangladesh's interim government, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, said on Thursday that his country's high growth under ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was "fake" and faulted the world for not questioning what he said was her corruption.

The Bangladesh student and people’s uprising of July and August last year overthrew the government of Sheikh Hasina, who had been running the country since 2009. She was widely accused of corruption and human rights abuses.

A long-serving former Doncaster MP has been appointed as the UK’s trade envoy to Bangladesh by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.