The country lost $16 billion annually on an average between 2009 and 2023 because of the illicit fund flow amid systemic tax evasion, misuse of exemptions, and poorly managed public finances under...
Bangladesh鈥檚 deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari was 鈥榰njustly arrested鈥� and must be released immediately, Hindustan Times...
The families of the victims of the 2009 Pilkhana carnage on Thursday announced that they would lodge a complaint to the International Crimes Tribunal against deposed prime minister...
University students who actively participated in the 2024 student-mass uprising unanimously said they would not allow the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina or any member of Awami League to participate in the next elections...
The Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Tuesday filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 49 others of genocide and crimes against humanity during the crackdown on its sit-in at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka on May 5-6, 2013...
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has frozen the bank accounts of Shuchona Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
The National Review Committee on the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources on Sunday requested the interim government to hire a reputed legal and investigative firm to assist in its review of major power generation contracts signed during the Sheikh Hasina regime between 2009 and 2024...
An attempt to murder case was filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 60 others with the Siddhirganj police station in Narayanganj district on Friday.
Dhaka is likely to raise the issue of extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India for shelter on August 5 facing a student-led mass uprising, in the Bangladesh-India...
Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri is scheduled to visit Dhaka in mid-December to lead the Indian delegation at the next round of Bangladesh-India Foreign Office Consultation, signalling efforts to normalise bilateral relations between the two neighbouring nations.
AS BANGLADESH emerges from a period of political turmoil following the student-led mass movement that ousted the government of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, it faces a pivotal moment in its foreign policy. While the fallen Hasina鈥檚 government maintained a so-called balanced relationship with both China and India, many analysts now argue...
Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus said that Bangladesh would pursue the extradition of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina from India.
A sudden procession in support of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina was brought out late Sunday night at Prabartak intersection in the Panchlaish area of Chattogram city...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said his interim government would seek extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina who fled to India after the fall of the Awami League regime in the face of a student-led mass uprising on August 5.
CONFIGURATIONS of political parties in Bangladesh now carry multiple drifts 鈥� they are still inchoate after a long hiatus under an authoritarian stretch of 15 plus years. But the parties got a new lease of life since a populist revolt ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 repressive regime. Now, they are optimistic, alive and thrusting. The expected...
RIGHTS organisation Odhikar in its quarterly July鈥揝eptember report has enlisted at least eight people having been extrajudicially killed in August 9鈥揝eptember 30. The interim government was installed on August 8 after a student-mass uprising that spanned the month of July had finally toppled the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League...
Transparency International Bangladesh executive director Iftekharuzzaman has said that the judiciary had played a facilitating role in establishing Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 authoritarian rule...
Human rights defenders and interim government advisers on Friday said that ensuring trial of the perpetrators of enforced disappearance faced many challenges, particularly created by ousted former...
One more student hit by bullets during the student-led mass uprising died on Thursday while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka...
Dhaka has conveyed to New Delhi that deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina after fleeing to India was making political statements frequently allegedly by using cellphone and internet facilities from there and Bangladesh was not taking it well...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim leader Muhammad Yunus said on Wednesday that reforms are needed before his country can elect a government following the ouster of autocratic former ruler Sheikh Hasina...
International Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Day was observed on Wednesday with student-led mass uprising victims, who were injured during the uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to India...
THE name 鈥楤angladesh鈥� is not stranger to the International Criminal Court. It was one of the earliest signatories to the ICC Rome Statute and ratified the same on March 23, 2010. Publicly available information shows that the ICC received at least four communications containing complaints (institutionally known as Article 15 Communications or...
Bangladesh鈥檚 army said Wednesday it had arrested 2,500 people and recovered 6,000 guns as it seeks to bolster security since the student-led mass uprising that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August...
The International Crimes Tribunal has asked the inspector general of police to request Interpol to issue 鈥榬ed notices鈥� to arrest deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Sunday said that the government would request INTERPOL to issue red notices to arrest and bring back fugitives, including...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 10 people along with the United States鈥� newly elected president Donald Trump鈥檚 posters, banners and placards conducting drives in different areas in the capital on Saturday...
FOLLOWING months of speculation, the government of Bangladesh finally announced on October 30, 2024, its intention to initiate the extradition process for Sheikh Hasina, contingent...
Indian external affairs ministry鈥檚 spokesperson said that India considered Sheikh Hasina as a former prime minister of Bangladesh.
Deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has since been accused in over 200 cases of murder in Bangladeshi courts, has congratulated United States president-elect Donald Trump on his victory over Democrat rival Kamala Harris in Tuesday鈥檚 election...