BGB seeks public cooperation to prevent unauthorised border crossings
The Border Guard Bangladesh has sought cooperation from the people to prevent unauthorised border crossings.
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City residents worried amid absence of law enforcers
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...
How will I survive: Imran鈥檚 widow
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...
IMF loan programme to continue despite regime change
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...
India in touch with Dhaka authorities, assures help to Hasina
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...
Hasina鈥檚 stay in India to prolong
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.
Victory brings huge opportunities of reforming state structure: Shujan
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...
Stocks jump, DSEX gains nearly 200pts
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...
Suggestions for interim and future govts
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...
History of BJP鈥檚 diplomatic gaffes
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...
Authorities, people must stand against violence, vandalism
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...
Interim govt installation, steps to keep law, order imperative
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...
Ganatantra Mancha expresses concern over sectarian attacks
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...
UK clarifies asylum rules amid speculation on Hasina鈥檚 next move
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....
Hasina鈥檚 US visa status unclear
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.
JS dissolved, Yunus agrees to lead interim govt
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...
Rise, fall of Sheikh Hasina
The political journey of Sheikh Hasina, one of Bangladesh鈥檚 most prominent leaders, has been marked by significant highs and dramatic lows.
Political parties for democratic transition聽of politics
Most political parties on Monday demanded a democratic transition in politics after the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.
Army chief calls for calm, pledges justice for killings
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.
Restoring economy immediate challenge
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 greet fall of Hasina regime with rapture
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 of deposed govt flee Minto Road bungalows
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...
Democracy now, democracy always
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...
Important tasks that lie before interim government
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...
Hasina meets Ajit Doval, may seek UK asylum: Indian media
Sheikh Hasina, who resigned from her position as Bangladesh prime minister on Monday, met with Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval at the Hindon Air Force base in Ghaziabad, approximately 30km from Delhi...
Residences of PM, CJ among establishments vandalized across Bangladesh
Agitating people on Monday vandalised and set fire to different establishments, including official residences of the prime minister and chief justice, soon after Sheikh Hasina...
Hasina will not come back in politics: Sajeeb
The Awami League president Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son Sajeeb Wazed Joy said that his mother, who stepped down on Monday, would not comeback in politics...
Bangabandhu Museum in Dhanmondi, AL offices in Dhaka attacked
Agitated locals set fire to the Bangabandhu Museum on Dhanmondi-32, once the residence of the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hours after Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 resignation on Monday,
Fakhrul urges people to remain calm
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on Monday called upon people to remain calm and exercise restraint to maintain peace and stability in the country following the fall of Sheikh Hasina-led government.
Khaleda, Tarique urge people to remain calm
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and its acting chairperson Tarique Rahman on Monday urged the people of the country to remain calm amid...