Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh’s “most important relationship” will always be with India, warning the current interim government against undermining that historic partnership through its growing outreach to Pakistan.
The newly formed Bangladesh National Citizens Party (NCP) in August 2025 unveiled a sweeping political and economic vision for what it calls a Second Republic, a state built on equality, justice, and democracy following last year’s mass uprising that toppled the Awami League government.
In today’s volatile political landscape, the National Citizen Party (NCP) stands out as the only credible force capable of delivering a changed and revitalized Bangladesh. With the Awami League banned yet still intent on stirring unrest, the nation cannot afford a return to its authoritarian excesses.
The newly formed National Citizen Party (NCP) has begun finalizing a list of 150 parliamentary candidates across the country as it prepares to enter national politics under the electoral symbol “Shapla Koli,” or water lily bud.
More than 100 people were injured Sunday as police used batons, sound grenades, and water cannons to disperse protesting primary school teachers in Dhaka’s Shahbagh area, authorities said.
The interim government is closely monitoring former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s activities in India and will take legal action against any Awami League members who act on her instructions, a top official said Saturday. “Hasina is the butcher of Bengal. It is certainly under our monitoring what she is doing or directing from there,” said […]
India’s role as a regional power comes with responsibilities. One of them is refusing to harbor leaders accused of mass killings. The United Nations human rights office found that as many as 1,400 people were killed during the July and August 2024 crackdown in Bangladesh. About 180 of them were children. These were not combatants. […]
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s latest attempt to sanitize the 2024 massacre is as cynical as it is cruel. In her interview with The Hindu, she said the state’s response was “proportionate in nature, made in good faith and intended to minimise the loss of life.” Yet the U.N. human rights office estimates 1,400 Bangladeshis […]
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has for the first time acknowledged that security forces made mistakes during the student-led uprising that brought down her government last year, as a new United Nations report estimates 1,400 people were killed in the crackdown.
After 17 years abroad, Tarique Rahman’s return to Dhaka should mark the return of justice, not the revival of political privilege. The interim government must act decisively and ensure that one of Bangladesh’s most notoriously corrupt figures is held fully accountable for his crimes.
