Tarique Rahman spent 17 years in self-imposed exile. Now, he is poised to become the prime minister of Bangladesh - and follow in the footsteps of his mother. Thursday's national election seemed to hand Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party a majority, according to l ...

Finally the people of Bangladesh have spoken, and they have delivered their verdict resoundingly in favour of the BNP and Tarique Rahman to take the reins of this broken nation, to pick up the pieces of its broken republic after an age of authoritarianism, and to try an ...

Elections can be hard, and they usually tend to be messy in countries like Bangladesh, with its high population, relative poverty and low landmass. On the one hand, it's hard due to the zero sum game to which power is reduced in post-Colonial societies. Losing candidate ...