Bangladesh’s life insurance sector saw a marginal decline in premium income in 2024 as political instability and economic uncertainty eroded policyholder confidence, while non-life insurers posted ...

Zia went on to make history in 1991 when she became Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister. She served a second term from ...

For decades, Zia and ousted PM Sheikh Hasina were bitter rivals - and their feud defined Bangladesh's politics.

Khaleda Zia came to lead the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) following her husband’s assassination, and would go on to ...

Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday mourned the death of Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia ...

Khaleda Zia, who emerged from private life to dominate Bangladesh’s turbulent politics for more than three decades, stands as ...

Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh's first female PM, passed away at 80, leaving behind a complex legacy in a politically polarised ...

Bangladesh’s youth are often labelled impatient, restless – even disruptive. But impatience today may simply be another name for honesty ...

Widowed at a young age, Begum Khaleda Zia chose public struggle over private safety, leading an uncompromising movement ...

Since he was a child, Raju Bor, 18, an ethnic Singh and Hindu, has seen his poor day laborer parents struggle to maintain their five-member family in Belowa village in Bangladesh's Natore district.

Sister Tiziana Merletti, SFP, secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, ...

The country has repeatedly beat the odds over the last fifty years to emerge as a leader in South Asia across several fronts. As a teenager, Prasenjit Pal saw trucks loaded with food drive into ...