At least 20,000 workers, most from the ready-made garment (RMG) sector, were reportedly laid off or retrenched across ...

Amnesty International reported Wednesday that the most widely circulated newspaper in Bangladesh, Prothom Alo, has been declared an “enemy” by the Bangladeshi government, a move that Amnesty termed an ...

New Delhi: 19 December 2025 was the first morning in 27 years when there was no Prothom Alo. For a country accustomed to waking up with its most influential daily in hand, the absence felt heavier ...

Prothom Alo, the country’s most-visited newspaper website, hired a mobile journalism specialist to train its reporters through workshops across Bangladesh: “We’re now using mobile journalism to ...

At least 15 people have been killed in an accident involving a truck carrying numerous passengers and iron bars in Bangladesh. Around ten passengers were injured when the vehicle plunged into a ditch, ...

IFEX joins ARTICLE 19 and Free Press Unlimited in calling on the authorities in Bangladesh to stop the legal harassment of 'Prothom Alo' journalists and end the broader crackdown on press freedom.

Protesters in Bangladesh on Monday surrounded the offices of one of the few remaining independent newspapers, Prothom Alo, in the latest mass demonstrations demanding that critical media close. The ...

We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the violent attacks on December 18, 2025 on the offices of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, two of South Asia’s oldest and most reputed media institutions, and the ...

On 18th December 2025, the offices of two of Bangladesh's biggest newspapers, The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, were surrounded by mobs, attacked and set on fire. At The Daily Star, journalists were ...