“Girls football is un-Islamic and it is our religious duty to stop anything that goes against our beliefs,” Siddique told Al Jazeera. The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) took a strong ...

As researchers find that more than 60 per cent of Bangladeshi families practise child marriage, campaigners fight to keep girls in education Kneeling on the carpet in a schoolroom made of battered ...

By Saif Hasnat and Anupreeta Das Saif Hasnat reported from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Anupreeta Das ... Kenya’s “Boda Girls” are turning a male-dominated industry upside down.

Bangladesh’s new government is struggling to deal with a host of issues, including a stumbling economy and human rights violations, left behind by the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh took out their anger at exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday by destroying a family home that came to symbolize the ...

The Joypurhat district administration has announced to reschedule a women's football match, which was previously cancelled after being disrupted following vandalism of the tin fence surrounding ...

An 11-year-old girl, who went missing from Mohammadpur in the capital on Sunday evening, has been spotted on CCTV footage in Naogaon, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has confirmed. Speaking to the ...

After spending eight years in a home in India, a Bangladeshi girl is set to return home to her family. In 2017, the girl along with her parents were detained near Kolkata airport for illegal entry.

The first-ever all-women’s winter expedition from Bangladesh to Nepal’s Himalayan Langtang region took place in December 2024. We spoke to the country’s female mountaineers to find out the challenges ...

A girls' football match was cancelled in ... However, before the match began, Ashraf Ali, president of Islami Andolon Bangladesh's Taraganj unit, publicly called for its cancellation.

(Representational) The Guwahati Police on Monday arrested two local men and a 22-year-old Bangladeshi woman for allegedly producing pornographic content at a hotel in the city. The arrests were ...

The ruling AAP’s anti-immigrant rhetoric was exemplified in December when the Delhi Municipal Corporation directed all government-run schools to stop the enrolment of “illegal Bangladeshi ...