Back in the mid-1990s, before the era of internet, mobile phones and satellite televisions, the government-run terrestrial broadcaster Bangladesh Television (BTV) was the only source of visual ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a village doctor and wounded a university teacher in western Bangladesh on Friday (May 20), in what the police suspected was the latest in ...

Update: An earlier version of this article stated that 20,000 people attacked the village. This has been updated to reflect the much smaller number later reported. A Hindu village in Bangladesh has ...

The road network of rural Bangladesh offers fascinating insights into the state of rural economy and social life. I recently had a very helpful experience of visiting several villages in the ...

For a country as densely populated as Bangladesh, there are a surprising number of places that give off a vibe of being in the middle of nowhere. Shah Porir Dwip is one of these places. There are no ...

As Bangladesh approaches the national election in February, it might be worth reflecting on what kind of democracy we wish to practice.

He cited examples of India’s Panchayet where there are reports of injustices and said the government of Bangladesh has been able to come up with a model in which “it is able to dispense justice at a ...

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s 2020 London and Busan selection “The Salt in Our Waters,” which will play at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Nov. 8, is a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Professor (pictured top) rose with the sun that day, climbing down from the wooden table where he slept, tying a ...