This live has now ended. Tarique Rahman was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Bangladesh on Tuesday (February 17, 2026), days after leading his party to a forceful victory in the crucial general ...

Om Birla attended the swearing-in of Tarique Rahman in Dhaka, stating that India stands ready to support Bangladesh’s democratic and progressive aspirations. Birla conveyed greetings from Narendra ...

Bangladesh's new prime minister Tarique Rahman steps into his role as the leader of the country after elections last week handed his Bangladesh Nationalist Party a landslide victory. The 60-year-old ...

Two Hindu candidates are among four from minority communities to have won in the recent general elections in Bangladesh. All of them were nominees of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is ...

The party is dedicated to running the country under Islamic law, but ran on a more moderate platform. It gained far more seats in last week’s election than it ever had before. By Anupreeta Das and ...

Less than ⁠two months after returning from 17 years of self-imposed exile in London, Tarique Rahman has won one of Bangladesh’s most pivotal elections and is set to become prime minister, leading the ...

In the weeks leading up to Bangladesh's general election on February 12, few parties projected confidence as assertively as the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Before the polls, political observers in ...

The 13th general elections in Bangladesh were different in several ways. They were held after a deadly uprising in 2024 that dismantled the old political order, and did not feature the country’s ...

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Pakistan welcomed the outcome of Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections, with the nation’s top leadership congratulating Tarique Rahman, the chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Pakistan ...