A major reshuffle was taken place in security forces, including in the police and Rapid Action Battalion, on Wednesday while the government cancelled the contractual appointment of Mohammad Tofazzel Hossain Miah, the principal secretary of former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina...
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan鈥檚 future in the Bangladesh national team is foggy at the moment following the resignation of Sheikh Hasina from the role of prime minister and the president dissolving the Jatiya Sangsad on Tuesday...
Bangladesh A team鈥檚 tour of Pakistan has been rescheduled following the turmoil the country went through in recent days which led to the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister following protests all over the country, which had initially begun as a quota reform movement...
Nine more bodies were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital raising the death toll to 151 till filing of this report at 6:00pm Wednesday since the forced resignation of Sheikh Hasina amid mass uprising triggered by student protests for quota reform in government jobs...
THE Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime is over after 16 years and we are now in a new phase which is best described as interim. From the look of things, it seems to be heading towards the earlier pre-2007鈥�8 BNP-Jamaat alliance phase...
NOW that it has been decided that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus would lead the interim government and the installation of the government would be held this evening, it is imperative that the composition of the government should reflect a full-scale representation of society, with people from the Bengalis, national and religious minorities...
The Border Guard Bangladesh has sought cooperation from the people to prevent unauthorised border crossings.
The near absence of law enforcement agencies in the capital amid killings, arson attacks and mass looting of key establishments following Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fall on Monday has sparked widespread fear among residents...
鈥楬ow will I survive with the child, who will now look after him,鈥� lamented Shanta Maria, the widow of Imran Hosain, who was killed in firing on student protests for government job quota reforms on July 19...
The International Monetary Fund will continue its ongoing $4.7 billion loan programme in Bangladesh despite the students-led mass demonstration that stepped Sheikh Hasina down as prime minister on Monday...
Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday told in an all-party meeting in the Parliament House that they were in regular touch with the authorities in Dhaka...
Sheikh Hasina was set to spend few more days in India awaiting the United Kingdom to accept her asylum request after the country initially rejected it, Indian media reported.
Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik at a press conference on Tuesday said that the fall of dictator Sheikh Hasina brings huge opportunities for the country to reform the state structure into a welfare state...
Dhaka stocks witnessed a big jump on Tuesday, the first trading day after a major change in the country鈥檚 political landscape, market operators said...
IT WAS the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who taught us: 鈥榃e learn from history that we do not learn from history.鈥� What an all-encompassing pithy remark, for all time to come! It was right yesterday, is right today and will unfortunately remain right tomorrow. If Sheikh Hasina had believed in it, she could have remained a venerated...
FOR India鈥檚 ruling BJP, what will August 5 be most remembered for? It is, of course, the day that Sheikh Hasina Wajed was deposed by a mass uprising against her authoritarian government. The ousted Bangladesh premier was perhaps a rare close ally of prime minister Narendra Modi in a neighbourhood where India endures persistent Sino-phobic nightmares...
VIOLENCE, vandalism and looting in many places across the country after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 are shocking and unacceptable. The incidents have left a few dozen dead while many establishments and houses have been burnt. Awami League leaders and the police appear to have been particularly targeted by the mob while...
THE deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has left the country after she resigned. The parliament has been dissolved. The president is now in full charge. But, no interim government has yet been installed to look after the affairs of the state. And, this has left the country with a constitutional and political void, which is not good for any modern-day state...
Leaders of the Ganatantra Mancha, a combine of six political parties, on Tuesday expressed concern over confrontational politics and countrywide sectarian attacks on religious minorities after fall of Sheikh Hasina government on Monday...
The UK Home Office has clarified that British immigration rules do not permit individuals to travel to the UK specifically to seek asylum or temporary refuge....
Amid growing queries on visa status of ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others, the United States has said the visa records are confidential under US law.
A day after Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fall, president Mohammed Shahabuddin on Tuesday dissolved the 12th parliament formed through the controversial general election held on...
The political journey of Sheikh Hasina, one of Bangladesh鈥檚 most prominent leaders, has been marked by significant highs and dramatic lows.
Most political parties on Monday demanded a democratic transition in politics after the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.
Chief of army staff general Waker-Uz-Zaman on Monday said that an interim government would be formed to run the country as prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post.
The immediate challenge for the proposed interim government will be restoring the economy suffering heavy disruption over the student-led mass protests culminated in the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government...
People from all walks of life on Monday across the capital took to the streets greeting the fall of Sheikh Hasina-led government with rapture...
Ministers and state ministers of the overthrown government who were living in government bungalows in the capital鈥檚 Mintu Road fled from their residences as the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post on Monday and also fled the country amid students-led mass uprising...
The fall of a dictator is always destined. So it was with Sheikh Hasina, who ruled the country for the last 16 years, destroyed all public institutions, and became an absolute authoritarian...
THE authoritarian government of the Awami League has been overthrown by the democratically oriented student and mass movement and the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has fled the country in half an hour after her resignation. Earlier, several hundred people were killed, several thousand people, including student protesters and...