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Bangladesh To Extradite Sheikh Hasina From India, Try Her On Mass Killing Charge

September 8, 2024 admin

Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal launched an investigation against Sheikh Hasina. (File) Dhaka: Bangladesh will take necessary steps to extradite deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina from India to try her on charges of mass killings during the student-led mass movement against her government, the newly-appointed chief prosecutor of the country’s International Crimes Tribunal said on Sunday….

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A month since Sheikh Hasina was forced out, Dhaka’s new rulers ask for ‘patience’

September 6, 2024 admin

A month ago, a student-led movement ousted Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, after weeks of protests and clashes that killed over 600 people and pushed the country to the brink of chaos. What began as student protests over government jobs became a large-scale revolt against the country’s longest-serving Prime Minister. Ms. Hasina, 76, fled to…

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India must engage with all sides in Bangladesh: Top policy analyst

September 1, 2024 admin

Major General A.N.M. Muniruzzaman (Retd.). File image: Special Arrangement The current state of relations between India and Bangladesh does not leave space for conventional diplomacy for Indian decision makers, a top policy analyst of Bangladesh has said. In an interview with The Hindu, Major General A.N.M. Muniruzzaman (Retd.), President of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security…

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Two new murder cases filed against ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

August 31, 2024 admin

Two new murder cases have been filed against Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. | Photo Credit: AFP Two new murder cases have been filed against Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her former Cabinet ministers for the killing of three persons, including two BNP activists, during the quota reform protests in the country,…

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Bangladesh could ask for Sheikh Hasina’s return from India, says foreign affairs adviser

August 31, 2024 admin

The Bangladesh interim government’s foreign affairs advisor Mohammed Touhid Hossain, has said that as cases mount against Sheikh Hasina, his country could consider seeking the extradition of the former premier but that would create an “embarrassing situation for the Indian government.” In an exclusive interview to Reuters TV in Dhaka, Hossain said that “since there…

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India Likely To Hand Over Body Of Top Bangladesh Awami League Leader Today

August 30, 2024 admin

The body, discovered on 26 August, 2024, has been identified through a Bangladeshi passport. Guwahati: The body of Bangladeshi Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, a former General Secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and a key member of the Awami League, is likely to be handed over to Bangladesh High Commission officials…

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Top Bangladesh Leader Who Reportedly Fled, Found Dead In Meghalaya

August 29, 2024 admin

Guwahati: A top leader of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party, Ishaque Ali Khan Panna, who had reportedly fled the country after her government collapsed, was found dead in Meghalaya, not far from the Bangladesh border, Meghalaya police said in a press release today. Police sources added that his postmortem report suggests…

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Four more murder cases filed against deposed PM Hasina, her aides in Bangladesh

August 25, 2024 admin

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least four more murder cases have been filed against Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her former cabinet ministers and aides, media reports said on Sunday (August 25, 2024). kA murder case was filed on Sunday (August 25, 2024) against 76-year-old Ms. Hasina, former…

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Bangladesh’s ex-supreme court judge detained near border with India

August 24, 2024 admin

BSF personnel keep vigil at the India-Bangladesh international Border on the eve of the Independence Day, at Chatrahati in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal . | Photo Credit: ANI A retired judge of Bangladesh’s Supreme Court was detained from the northeastern frontier with India in Sylhet while he was allegedly attempting to flee the…

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Sheikh Hasina faces 33 cases, including murder, after ouster from Bangladesh

August 21, 2024 admin

The slogan ‘This is new Bangladesh’ was spray-painted on a gate of a bungalow, to mark the recent anti-government protest that ousted then PM Sheikh Hasina, in the Dhaka University area on August 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI A case was filed on Wednesday (August 21, 2024) against Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina…

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