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...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Wednesday said that fallen prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina was still scheming against the interim government.
AS THE world looked on in utter horror, the brutality of the Sheikh Hasina regime unfolded with unbridled extremes, reaching its peak intensity in the second half of July 2024. By the end of...
The Commission for Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances said on Tuesday that it had received complaints regarding enforced disappearance of over 1,600 victims, the incidents of...
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Sunday questioned Indian central government鈥檚 decision to provide political asylum to ousted Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina who fled...
The High Court on Sunday directed the authorities to investigate alleged irregularities in sanctioning a Tk 3,859 crore loan to Bashundhara Group four days before the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
Speakers, including lawyers, at a discussion on Saturday urged the people not to scrap the existing constitution on a whim...
A complaint has been filed with the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands against ousted Bangladesh prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina allegedly for committing...
THE term 鈥榬evolution鈥� has gained significant traction in Bangladesh over the past few months. I have observed that various stakeholders, including media outlets, political activists, student bodies and even academics, have started to characterise the events surrounding the fall of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 as a revolution. Some have referred to this...