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India always looks at the Ganga treaty as a bilateral treaty but in the lean months it receives a lot of snowmelt from Nepal’s Ghaghara, Gandaki, and Koshi rivers; they also need to be monitored if we have to care for the Ganga,” Mr. Chowdhury said. Image for representation only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto…
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Opposition alliance members gather in Dhaka on September 5, 2026, during a march bound for Chittagong to protest the gas, electricity and fertiliser crisis amid the West Asia war and to demand implementation of the July Charter. | Photo Credit: AFP Thousands of Opposition supporters launched a long march across Bangladesh on Saturday (September 5,…
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Bangladesh has sharply criticised India for allowing deposed former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to hold a press conference from New Delhi, calling it harmful to bilateral ties. Dhaka said its repeated requests to extradite Hasina remain unanswered. Published – August 06, 2026 10:39 am IST Source link
Two years after a mass uprising forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country, Bangladesh’s campuses and streets are once again witnessing political violence, this time not between the ousted Bangladesh Awami League and its opponents, but among the very parties and student groups that led the movement against her. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, who leads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),…
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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday (August 5, 2026) that the ban on her Awami League party should be lifted and reiterated that she would return to her country. Ms. Hasina’s comments were made during a media interaction hosted by the Foreign Correspondents’…
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By the time Argentina’s players emerged from the tunnel on Wednesday evening, familiar songs had already begun rolling around the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The crowd came from Buenos Aires and Cordoba, from Rosario and Mendoza. But they also came with unmistakably different accents from Kolkata and Dhaka, from Kochi and Varanasi, from South Asian immigrant neighbourhoods…
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The Awami League has so far issued no notification on their online platforms, but some media reports suggest that the party activists were directed to hoist national and party flags at party offices and stage flash street processions. File. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh on Saturday (June 20, 2026) issued a nationwide security alert over…
Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is set to visit Malaysia and China on his first trip abroad since assuming office, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday (June 20, 2026), bypassing neighbouring India as his inaugural destination. Mr. Rahman will visit Malaysia on Sunday (June 21)…
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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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Bangladesh’s Tawhid Hridoy (L) reacts after scoring a half-century (50 runs) during the first T20 international cricket match between Bangladesh and New Zealand at the Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium in Chittagong on April 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Tawhid Hridoy’s half-century led Bangladesh to a six-wicket victory against New Zealand to…
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