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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is set to form the government in Dhaka after a landslide victory, but jubilation is also palpable at the Jamaat-e-Islami headquarters, as the party-led alliance has secured 77 seats. As the country prepares for its first elected government since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster in August 2024, the road ahead remains…
On August 5, 2024, the Sheikh Hasina government, which had ruled Bangladesh with an iron fist for nearly sixteen years, collapsed following the quota reform movement led by students and political parties. Over the course of the July-August uprising, a few incidents stand out. First, is the role of the private universities, which had largely…
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Bangladesh police personnel stand guard outside the Election Commission’s office in Dhaka on December 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Bangladesh will hold the 13th parliamentary election on February 12, 2026, Chief Election Commissioner A.M.M. Nasir Uddin announced on Thursday (December 11, 2025). A referendum on a landmark democratic reform charter will also be held…
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Odhikar, one of the South Asian nation’s largest human rights organisations, demanded justice from the interim government that took over after the student-led revolution that toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least a dozen people died in detention in Bangladesh since last year’s revolution, including by torture and gunshot wounds,…
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Students from anti-discrimination movements and Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists attack an Awami League supporter in Dhaka, Bangladesh recently. File photo | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin has said that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League may participate in elections unless the government or the judiciary issues a ban against…
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A view of the Rooppur nuclear powerplant in Bangladesh. File photo Russian nuclear major Rosatom on Tuesday (December 24, 2024) said the Bangladesh anti-graft commission’s remarks are “an attempt to discredit” the Rooppur nuclear power project. In a statement issued to the media, Rosatom reiterated that the $2.65 billion Rooppur project is transparent and that…
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As dawn approached on Saturday morning of July 20, 2024 a disturbing scene unfolded in Monsur Nagar Housing Estate in Savar upazila, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Some eight to 10 plainclothes men identifying themselves as being from the detective branch (DB) of Bangladesh Police, surrounded the home of Abul Khair, a 70-year-old, who had…
Bangladeshi Army officers stand guard at the Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Several residents across Bangladesh spent a sleepless night as they gathered in groups to guard the streets amid fears of robbery and looting by criminals in the violence-hit country, where an interim government headed by…
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