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Sheikh Hasina’s Fall Leads To Slump In India-Bangladesh Border Trade

August 7, 2024 admin

Sheikh Hasina’s shocking exit has impacted the trade between India and Bangladesh New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quit this week and fled the country after violent protests demanding her resignation. Ms Hasina, who started her fifth term as Prime Minister earlier this year, left the capital Dhaka in a military aircraft and landed…

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Bangladesh ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia freed after arch-rival toppled

August 6, 2024 admin

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh’s uncompromising former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has been released from years of house arrest after her bitter enemy Sheikh Hasina was ousted as premier and fled as protesters stormed her palace. The ferocious rivalry between the two women — born in…

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Families Of People Killed In Bangladesh Protests Place 11-Point Demands

August 6, 2024 admin

The demands also include direct government scholarships to students in private universities. (File) Dhaka: Families of the persons killed in Bangladesh’s student protests on Tuesday placed 11-point demands, including rehabilitation by providing jobs, before the interim government which is set to be formed to replace the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime. The death count…

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Sheikh Hasina Hasn’t Sought Asylum Anywhere, Her Son Tells NDTV

August 6, 2024 admin

New Delhi: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in India for the last 24 hours, has not sought asylum “anywhere”, her son categorically told NDTV today, brushing off speculation. Ms Hasina, 76, was contemplating retirement anyway and now she will retire from politics and is likely to divide her time between her family members, added…

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Death toll climbs to 440 in Bangladesh protests; efforts by army to bring situation under control

August 6, 2024 admin

People gather at the entrance of the Parliament Building a day after the resignation of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll in the anti-government protests in Bangladesh on Tuesday (August 6, 2024) climbed to 440, with 100 more deaths reported after Sheikh Hasina fled the country,…

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Bangladesh Tour To Pakistan In Doubt, PCB Offer To Fly Out Players

August 6, 2024 admin

File image of Bangladesh playing Pakistan.© AFP Bangladesh senior men’s team two-Test away series against Pakistan starting August 21 in Rawalpindi looks doubtful due to the current civil unrest in the country after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and flee the country. Bangladesh’s senior team are supposed to play…

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Bangladesh On Agenda, Amit Shah Meets S Jaishankar, Ajit Doval

August 6, 2024 admin

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with foreign minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval today to discuss the security situation in the country in view of the turmoil in Bangladesh. Since yesterday, as Sheikh Hasina resigned from the post of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and came to…

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Bangladesh bans Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir under anti-terrorism law

August 1, 2024 admin

Lawyers shout slogans as they face the police during a protest to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh on August 1 banned the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir under anti-terrorism law following nationwide unrest,…

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