DHAKA: Former PM Khaleda Zia’s BNP said Friday senior members of banned Awami League “currently residing in Delhi” are conspiring to destabilise the country and derail the process for the Feb election.Bangladesh has alleged that besides former PM Sheikh Hasina, “many” Awami League members fled to India after a “mass uprising” led to her govt’s…
DHAKA: There are no barriers from Dhaka’s side on improving relations with New Delhi, but progress requires cooperation of both sides, Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain asserted Thursday, even as he said there was no update from India on the request for former PM Sheikh Hasina’s extradition.“We wrote once and updates will be…
Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar lands in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on an official visit on August 23, 2025. Picture: X/@ForeignOfficePk Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan Mohammed Ishaq Dar reached Bangladesh on Saturday (August 23, 2025), the Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh has announced. Mr. Dar was received at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport…
Muhammad Yunus (ANI image) Bangladesh’s interim chief adviser and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday announced that the country’s next general elections will be held in February 2026, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. He made the declaration during his address to the nation via state television, BTV and radio to mark…
Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: PTI Bangladesh‘s International Crimes Tribunal on Monday (July 7, 2025) set July 10, 2025 to determine whether charges will be framed against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her top aides. Ms. Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah…
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Saturday said those convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) are ineligible to participate in elections, days after the tribunal sentenced Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.Asaduzzaman remarks come ahead of the next year’s national polls, pending since the fall of…
Bangladesh police arrest accused for raping Hindu woman (Image credits: ANI) Police in Bangladesh have arrested five individuals in connection with the rape of a Hindu woman and the circulation of a video of the victim on social media. The incident took place in Ramchadrapur Panchkitta village under Muradnagar police station in Comilla district on…
Fugitive ex-leader Sheikh Hasina and former senior figures connected to her ousted government and her now-banned party, the Awami League, are being prosecuted in Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh’s war crimes court ordered fugitive ex-leader Sheikh Hasina on Monday (June 16, 2025) to return to face trial on charges amounting…
