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A Bangladesh police personnel stands guard outside the Election Commission’s office in Dhaka on December 11, 2025. File | Photo Credit: FP A youth leader of a right-wing cultural group and a candidate at the February 12 general elections was on Friday (December 12, 2025) shot at by unidentified gunmen in Bangladesh capital. Chief Adviser…
Bangladeshi rAmy soldiers guard outside the demolished residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s former leader and the father of the country’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. | Photo Credit: AP A Bangladesh court on Thursday (November 27, 2025) sentenced deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years in jail in three corruption cases related to…
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The interim government of Bangladesh has sent a letter to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs seeking Sheikh Hasina’s extradition. What are the terms of the extradition treaty between the two countries? Source link
Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) on Monday (November 17, 2025) began delivering its verdict in the case against deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is being tried in absentia over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year’s student-led agitation that led to the fall of her Awami…
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Ousted former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her return home hinges on the restoration of “participatory democracy”, lifting of the ban on the Awami League and the conduct of free, fair and inclusive elections. In an exclusive email interview to PTI from an undisclosed location in India, Ms. Hasina also accused the unelected…
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File. | Photo Credit: AP Fifteen months after leaving capital Dhaka in the midst of an uprising, Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that ‘mistakes’ were “certainly made” by security forces while responding to the ‘disordered situation’ during last year’s student-people uprising. In a written interview to…
Protesters during the August 2024 unrest that toppled the rule of Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh announced on Wednesday (November 5, 2025) cash rewards to surrender machine guns, rifles and pistols looted during an uprising last year, hoping to collect hundreds of weapons ahead of key elections. An estimated 6,000 firearms were…
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Deposed Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday (October 8, 2025) issued arrest warrants against deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and several others on charges of crimes against humanity in alleged cases of enforced disappearances during her Awami League regime. A three-member International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) bench, led…
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Washington DC: In its bid to save US taxpayers’ money, the Donald Trump administration’s cost-cutting team–Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)– has cancelled a slew of overseas projects, including one in Bangladesh that raised several eyebrows. The billionaire Elon Musk-led department said it is cancelling $29 million funding intended for “strengthening the political landscape in Bangladesh”….
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New Delhi: The United States Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has cancelled a $21 million US taxpayer-funded grant – under former President Joe Biden’s administration – meant to influence “voter turnout in India.” In its announcement, DOGE highlighted that the $21 million was part of a larger $486 million budget allocated…
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