People hold a portrait of Bangladesh`s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, as they gather to offer funeral prayers for her, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Wednesday...

Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh`s first female prime minister and a towering figure in the nation`s politics, passed away on December 30, 2025, at the age of 80...

Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh (AFP) A Bangladesh tribunal has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for "crimes against humanity" over her government`s violent crackdown on student-led protests in 2024...

Less than six months after Bangladesh parliamentary elections and assumption of power by Sheikh Hasina from the ruling Awami League, a street uprising all of a sudden overthrew the new government...

A policeman is seen walking in front of a portrait of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Jan...

Fire breaks out at the Balukhali rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on January 9, 2022...

This frame grab from AFPTV video shows a burning ferry after it caught on fire killing at least 38 people in Jhakakathi, 250 kilometers (160 miles) south of Dhaka, early on December 24, 2021...

A Red Cross expert speaks to members of the Rohingya community at Bhahsan Char Island, in Bangladesh, on November 23, 2021...

An effigy depicting French President Emmanuel Macron is seen as Muslims chant slogans after Friday prayers during a protest calling for the boycott of French products and denouncing the French president for his defense of derogatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on October 30, 2020...

Boats are seen at the Buriganga River, waiting for passengers during a rain in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 16, 2020...

Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia (R) sits in a car after being released, for medical reasons, from prison in Dhaka, March 25, 2020...

Bangladeshis shout slogans as they protest the violence against Muslims in India and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Bangladesh, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 28, 2020...

The United Nations says longer-term plans are needed to manage the influx of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled from Myanmar’s Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh...

Bangladesh has agreed to free land for a new camp to shelter some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled an escalation of violence in Myanmar...

At least 156 people have died in Bangladesh and neighboring regions of northeast India after heavy monsoon rain triggered landslides and extensive flooding, Reuters reported...