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Sheikh Hasina lands in India, Indian media says

Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post of prime minister on Monday and swiftly left Bangladesh capital Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s iron lady Sheikh Hasina falls after 15yrs in power, flees to India

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and fled the country, ending her 15-year rule amid an unprecedented student-led mass uprising against her authoritarian regime.

Interim govt to be formed as PM resigns: Bangladesh Army chief

Bangladesh Army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman on Monday said that an interim government will be formed to govern the country as prime minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned from her post.

Bangladesh PM resigns and leaves Dhaka, thousands enter Ganabhaban

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled her palace on Monday, a source told AFP, as masses of protesters demanding her resignation roamed the streets of Dhaka and the army chief was set to address the nation....

A mutiny rooted in history?

MULTIPLE assumptions emerged from the furious anti-job quota protests that recently catapulted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to her worst encounter during her last 15-years of uninterrupted rule. The number of deaths swirled beyond two hundred as of this writing; overwhelming brutalities, rampant arson, prolonged curfews...

PM Sheikh Hasina calls for resisting anarchists with iron hands

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the people of the country to curb anarchists with iron hands.

I ordered release of innocent students: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that she had already instructed to release the innocent people that include general students from the jail.

PM sits with VCs, college principals at Ganabhaban

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is holding a view-exchange meeting with the vice-chancellors of public and private universities, teachers and college principals at Ganabhaban in Bangladesh capital Dhaka....

People throng Shaheed Minar, demand resignation of PM

Thousands of people from all walks of life and ages gathered at Central Shaheed Minar on Dhaka University campus to express solidarity with protesting students demanding the resignation of Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday.

Protesters reject PM’s call for dialogue

Protest leaders on Saturday rejected the prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for holding a dialogue with them about the movement...

PM offers talks, student protesters reject

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the agitating students to sit with her at her official Ganabhaban residence to put an end to violence in the ongoing protests seeking justice for...

Protesters block Dhaka roads demanding PM’s resignation

Protesting students under the banner of Students Movement against Discrimination on Saturday afternoon blocked Science Laboratory crossing demanding resignation of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, for killing students and people during their movement for quota reformation...

Show-cause notice issued on JU Bangla dept chair

The authorities of Jahangirnagar University on Friday issued a show cause notice to professor Shamima Sultana, chairperson of the university’s Bengali department, for removing a portrait of...

Who will be responsible for so many deaths: PM

Referring to the ongoing student protests, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday questioned, ‘What kind of movement it was?’ and added, ‘Who will shoulder the...

JU Bangla dept chair removes PM’s portrait from office

Students demand justice amidst massacre

SHEIKH Hasina’s government is now under fire for what many are calling a war against her own people. In the past week alone, more than 200 people were reportedly killed in a brutal crackdown on protests. The government deployed helmeted forces, the Chhatra League, the army, the police and border guards using armoured vehicles and helicopters...

Govt plays to crowd as it seeks UN help in mayhem probe

THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s statement that she seeks cooperation of the United Nations and other international organisations for a fair and proper investigation of the mayhem, born out of the student protests that sought reforms in civil service job reservations, to establish the culprits involved in the attacks and punish them appears...

PM again seeks UN, foreign countries’ coop to expose perpetrators

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday once again sought cooperation from the United Nations and foreign countries to probe into every incident during the countrywide mayhem to expose the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

Tulip Siddiq investigated over London property income

British minister and Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, also the niece of Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, is being investigated by the United Kingdom parliament’s standards watchdog over a failure to register rental income on a London property...

PM visits Kurmitola Hospital to meet injured in unrest

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Kurmitola General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon to see the injured victims of the recent nationwide violence centring around the quota reforms movement.

PM seeks UN, other int’l orgs’ coop for mayhem probe

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought cooperation from the United Nations and other international organisations to conduct a proper investigation into the nationwide mayhem to punish the real culprits involved in the attacks taking advantage of the anti-quota movement...

Lives lost during violence over quota protests will never come back: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the lives lost during the recent quota reform violence can never be brought back even though the destroyed structures were rebuilt...

Amnesty Int’l chief calls on Hasina for urgent action to end violence

The Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard in a letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina urged to take urgent and concrete action to end the violence and...

PM visits Suhrawardy hospital to meet victims of unrest

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to meet people who sustained injuries during the recent nationwide unrest centring quota reform protests.

Govt to take foreign technical assistance for judicial probe: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that foreign technical assistance would be taken for the judicial probe committee, formed by the government aims at...

Govt set to ban Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami: minister

Two ministers on Tuesday said that the government decided to ban the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami through an executive order within a very short time...

Mourning day being observed today

Mourning day is being observed across Bangladesh on Tuesday for those who died during unrest centring around student protests for quota reform in the past week.

Mancha demands resignation of AL govt

The leaders of Ganatantra Mancha, a combine of six political parties, on Monday demanded the resignation of the Awami League government and protested against the...

Foreign missions working so that no more Bangladeshis in trouble: info minister

State minister for information Mohammad Ali Arafat said that Bangladesh missions aboard were working on the instructions of prime minister Sheikh Hasina so that any more Bangladeshi expatriates were not in further troubles over protests in solidarity with quota reform student movement back home...

Govt’s efforts will be to find culprits involved in murders: PM

Seeking cooperation from the countrymen, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated that her government’s efforts would be to find out those involved in the...