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Zaima Rahman, daughter of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, now a UNGA legal officer

A Watchdog Wants the UN to Explain How the Bangladeshi PM’s Daughter Got Her UN Job

Global Justice Network has asked the UN to open an independent review of how Zaima Rahman, daughter of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, was hired as a legal officer in the office

September 25, 2026

Government and Politics·News

Saima Wazed WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia who accused Director-General Tedros of political witch hunt

Saima Wazed Accuses WHO Chief of Politically Motivated Purge After Bangladesh’s 2024 Upheaval

Saima Wazed, the recently resigned WHO regional director for South-East Asia and daughter of Sheikh Hasina, has broken her year of silence in a FirstPost op-ed, accusing WHO Director-General Tedros of a

September 19, 2026

Government and Politics·Health·News

When Justice Becomes Theatre: How Bangladesh’s ICT Is Turning a Tragedy into a Political Weapon

Bangladesh's ICT is using Lamia's rape case, already tried in a criminal court against teenage classmates, as evidence of Awami League crimes — a contradiction the authorities cannot explain. The episode fits

September 14, 2026

Government and Politics·Opinion

A healthcare worker administers a measles vaccine to a child in Bangladesh during the 2026 emergency vaccination campaign

Bangladesh Measles Deaths Cross 1,000: Vaccination Drive Failed Four Million Children

Bangladesh has recorded more than 1,000 measles deaths and 187,000 infections since March, the world's worst active outbreak per the CDC. An emergency campaign vaccinated 18 million children but missed four million,

September 10, 2026

Health·News

Rohingya refugee shelters at Cox's Bazar Bangladesh showing monsoon flood risk conditions

A Million People, No Higher Ground: Bangladesh’s Rohingya Camps and the Monsoon That Will Not End

Bangladesh's 2026 monsoon has killed over 100 people, displaced half a million, and pushed the Rohingya camps at Cox's Bazar into one of the most dangerous humanitarian emergencies in recent monsoon history,

September 5, 2026

Climate·News

Police guard the front of Awami League's vandalised central office in Dhaka, Bangladesh

They Won Nine Elections — Now They’re Illegal — And Delhi Just Helped Silence Them

Delhi Police cancelled an international press freedom seminar on August 29, then media reports falsely attributed the event to the Bangladesh Awami League. The party, banned from politics at home but far

September 1, 2026

Government and Politics·News

India Bangladesh diplomatic standoff over Sheikh Hasina exile stalls bilateral reset

India Bangladesh Relations: Hasina Deadlock Stalls Reset as Delhi Keeps Invitation Open

India's Ministry of External Affairs on Monday said the invitation to Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman for an official visit remains open, even as the bilateral relationship remains stuck over Sheikh Hasina's

August 25, 2026

Government and Politics·News

Jawed Karim: The YouTube Co-Founder Who Uploaded the First Video and Left

Jawed Karim co-founded YouTube, uploaded its first video in April 2005, and took the smallest of the three founders' stakes when Google bought it. He has posted on that channel roughly three

August 24, 2026

Technology

Saima Wazed raises her right hand to take the oath of office as WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, with Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus standing beside her

Who Is Saima Wazed? The Career Behind the WHO’s Most Contested Regional Post

Saima Wazed was elected to lead the WHO's South-East Asia Region in 2023 on a record built in autism advocacy and mental health policy. A profile of the credentials, the roles, the

August 23, 2026

Government and Politics·Health·News

Tarique Rahman, prime minister of Bangladesh, addressing the nation on 18 February 2026

Tarique Rahman: From a Life Sentence to Prime Minister

Twenty-four people were killed at a Dhaka rally in 2004 and nobody is convicted of it. Every major conviction against Tarique Rahman was overturned within ten months of the fall of the

August 23, 2026

Government and Politics·News

Bangladesh

A Watchdog Wants the UN to Explain How the Bangladeshi PM’s Daughter Got Her UN Job

Saima Wazed Accuses WHO Chief of Politically Motivated Purge After Bangladesh’s 2024 Upheaval

When Justice Becomes Theatre: How Bangladesh’s ICT Is Turning a Tragedy into a Political Weapon

Bangladesh Measles Deaths Cross 1,000: Vaccination Drive Failed Four Million Children

A Million People, No Higher Ground: Bangladesh’s Rohingya Camps and the Monsoon That Will Not End

They Won Nine Elections — Now They’re Illegal — And Delhi Just Helped Silence Them

India Bangladesh Relations: Hasina Deadlock Stalls Reset as Delhi Keeps Invitation Open

Jawed Karim: The YouTube Co-Founder Who Uploaded the First Video and Left

Who Is Saima Wazed? The Career Behind the WHO’s Most Contested Regional Post

Tarique Rahman: From a Life Sentence to Prime Minister

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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