The interim government that replaced the Sheikh Hasina-led autocracy saw a rapid worsening of the country鈥檚 power crisis after India鈥檚 Adani power had shut down one of its two units each producing 748MW burning coal...
BANGLADESH has been transformed into a mausoleum of democracy under the iron fist of Sheikh Hasina. Her reign, a protracted nightmare for the Bangladeshi people, has been marked by a relentless erosion of institutional integrity, a cancer that has metastasised through body politic. With each passing year, the democratic fabric of this young nation...
THE police on August 13 arrested Salman F Rahman, who was the private industries and investment adviser to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and Anisul Huq, who was law minister in the deposed prime minister鈥檚 cabinet, at Sadarghat in Dhaka reportedly when they were trying to flee using a boat. Student protests for reforms in civil service job...
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Wednesday placed deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq on a 10-day remand in a case filed with the New Market police station over the killing of hawker Shahjahan Ali...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, has said that he hopes India will ensure the constitution of Bangladesh is upheld and elections are held within the constitutional timeframe of 90 days...
The father of a slain student on Wednesday filed a complaint with International Crimes Tribunal against recently ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina over allegations of mass killings and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising.
A case was filed against Bangladesh鈥檚 ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and four others for allegedly abducting a lawyer from Uttara in Dhaka in 2015...
After the White House, the United States Department of State has also trashed reports that claimed the United States was involved in Bangladesh鈥檚 former prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 resignation...
The Student Movement Against Discrimination launched a 鈥楻esistance Week鈥� program on Tuesday to press home four demands, including the formation of a special tribunal to...
A handful of cultural organisations in the country were attacked by miscreants after the resignation of the Awami League president Sheikh Hasina as prime minister on August 5 and fled to India amid a mass uprising spearheaded by students...
Ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked supporters to make a public show of strength later this week, hours after a court ruled that a murder probe...
Crime has increased across Bangladesh following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime amid mass uprising on August 5; many communities therefore are forced to be at the forefront of safeguarding their neighborhoods in the absence of law enforcers...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 youths have succeeded in toppling the Sheikh Hasina regime that was autocratic and utterly corrupt. The August 5 event has thus been appositely called the second liberation of Bangladesh. This revolution to topple a fascist regime could not have succeeded without the support enjoyed from all sectors within the broader Bangladeshi...
WE MAY find a useful clue on August 15 to the direction the turbulence-stricken Bangladesh is heading in. August 15 marks India鈥檚 Independence Day, but it also became the day in 1975 when the founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, was assassinated in a military coup. The Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed subsequently...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday announced a three-day programme demanding the trial of ousted long-time ruler Sheikh Hasina and her aides for the July massacre.
The deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, along with six others, were sued on Tuesday on charges of killing a grocery shop owner in the...
The White House on Monday uled out any involvement of the United States behind the fall of Sheikh Hasina-led government, stressing that it is false...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh鈥檚 ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday claimed the 鈥榮ame mob鈥� is threatening the home affairs adviser of the interim government to suffer the same fate as his mother...
Police on Monday resumed their operations partially outside their stations in Dhaka and other places across the country six days after long-time ruler Sheikh Hasina resigned as...
A COUPLE of advisers to the interim government, which has yet to clearly define its tenure, reforms agenda and the terms of reference of the government installed after the downfall of the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina, have聽 already given a reaction that is reflective of an apparent resent when they have been asked about the issues...
The overall inflation jumped to 11.66 per cent amid the food price spiral in July, which saw massive student-led demonstrations leading to the ouster of prime minister...
The Student Movement Against Discrimination on Monday demanded trial of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled to India on August 5, on genocide charges for...
The ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, urged the people to pay their tributes peacefully to the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15 at Dhanmondi 32...
India has arrested nearly a dozen Bangladeshis attempting to cross the border to escape violence and political tumult following deadly protests that led to the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, border officials said Monday...
Home affairs adviser to the interim government retired Brigadier General M Sakhawat Hossain on Monday warned the Awami League for not attempting any 鈥榗ounter revolution鈥� as it would cost hundreds of lives...
Foreign affairs adviser to the interim government, Md Touhid Hossain, on Sunday said that his ministry would act as regards to a move for bringing back deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina from...
Ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India last week after submitting her resignation amid a student-led mass uprising, started communicating with Awami leaders back at...
The High Court will resume its proceedings on limited scale from Monday, one week after the fall of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 government, while High Court Judge Syed Refaat Ahmed was...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, said that there was no rule of law in Bangladesh where even the Supreme Court was not safe...
Tulip Siddiq, a senior Labour minister of the United Kingdom and niece of Bangladesh鈥檚 deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was facing urgent questions Saturday night after it emerged that she is living in a 拢2 million house owned by a close political ally of her aunt, London-based the Daily Mail reported on Sunday...