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Bangladesh’s former police chief Benazir Ahmed was arrested in Dubai, the Interior Minister said on Sunday (June 14, 2026), years after he fled his home country where he is facing multiple charges including corruption. Mr. Benazir, once a close ally of former leader Sheikh Hasina, left the country in May 2024 amid public outrage over…
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From her exile in India, Bangladesh’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina has slammed the country’s upcoming election after her party was barred from the polls, remarks that could deepen tensions ahead of the pivotal vote next month. Hasina, who was sentenced to death for her crackdown on a student uprising in 2024 that killed hundreds of…
A crowd gathers near the premises of the Prothom Alo daily newspaper which was set on fire by angry protesters after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP As Bangladesh struggles to maintain normalcy after…
Security personnel outside the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: PTI Security has been strengthened at the Indian Assistant High Commission office and the visa application centre in Bangladesh’s Sylhet city in the wake of heightened tensions following the death of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, officials said. The enhanced security…
Protests in Bangladesh continued for a third consecutive day on Saturday (December 20, 2025), with demonstrators demanding punishment for the killers of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent youth leader of the July 2024 uprising, even as his funeral was held under heavy security in the capital. Also read | Bangladesh unrest after Sharif Osman Hadi’s…
Dhaka: A day after the second Hindu monk, Shyam Das Prabhu, was arrested in Bangladesh, two other disciples of arrested spiritual leader Chinmoy Krishna Das have also gone missing in Chattogram, International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Kolkata spokesperson Radharamn Das claimed on Saturday. Posting the picture of four Hindu priests, Radharamn Das wrote: “Do…
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Agartala-based ILS Hospital closed itshelp desk at Akhaura check post. Agartala: A day after a Kolkata hospital decided not to treat patients from Bangladesh over alleged atrocities against minority Hindus, a multi-specialty healthcare facility in Agartala followed suit on Saturday. Agartala-based ILS Hospital, which has been a popular destination for patients from the neighbouring country…
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Pedestrians walk past the ‘Adani House’ corporate building in Gurgaon on November 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP India was not informed by the United States government about its investigation into the Adani group, said that Ministry of External Affairs on Friday (November 29, 2024), who confirmed that the Indian Embassy in Washington has thus…
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), which signed a peace accord with the Bangladesh government in 1997 to end decades of insurgency, has made a set of demands in wake to recent communal clashes in three hill districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), located in close proximity to Tripura. The PCJSS, the apex body…
Bangladesh interim government said it will “soon” start re-investigation and fair trial into the 2009 mutiny in the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) that had killed 74 people, including 57 army officers serving in the force. | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh interim government on Monday (September 2, 2024) said it will “soon” start re-investigation and fair…
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