Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Friday said his party would restore the constitutional phrase “absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah” if returned to power.
Krishak Sramik Janata League President Bangabir Abdul Kader Siddique, a celebrated freedom fighter from Bangladesh’s War of Independence, on Friday launched a fierce attack on former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, accusing her of undermining the very values of the Liberation War.
Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is hiding out in India, is defending her 2024 exit from power as a necessary act to prevent bloodshed, even as a United Nations report attributes more than 1,400 deaths to the violent crackdown carried out under her watch. The UN assessment, based on hospital records and field […]
Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, hiding out in India, has denied committing crimes against humanity as she faces a possible death sentence over last year’s student-led uprising that toppled her.
Police recovered 100,000 yaba pills from a car abandoned at a checkpoint in Chattogram, Bangladesh, on Thursday. Officers said the vehicle stopped on Mariner’s Road in the Kotwali area before the driver fled on foot. Police said the search of the car led to the discovery of 10 packets of yaba tablets, each containing 10,000 […]
A group of people set fire to the Awami League’s central office in Dhaka’s Gulistan area on Thursday, authorities said. Eyewitnesses reported that 10 to 15 individuals piled wood, cartons, and other materials on the building’s fourth floor before igniting them around 1:00pm. The office has been abandoned since August 5 last year, when crowds […]
Bangladesh will sign a major 30-year concession agreement next week with APM Terminals BV, a subsidiary of Denmark’s AP Moller-Maersk, to build and operate the Laldia Container Terminal at Chattogram Port under a public-private partnership, officials said Thursday.
I greet all students, women, men, young, and old. Assalamu Alaikum. Last year, in August, by the power of the July upheaval, we formed the interim government. Since then, we have now reached a very important juncture in our tenure. The responsibilities entrusted to our government were primarily three: to prosecute the murders; to organize […]
Bangladesh will hold a national referendum alongside its February parliamentary election to decide whether to adopt the “July Charter,” a sweeping package of constitutional reforms drafted after last year’s deadly student-led uprising, interim leader Muhammad Yunus said Thursday. The interim government approved the July National Charter Implementation Order 2025, clearing the way for a nationwide […]
Bangladesh on Wednesday summoned India’s deputy high commissioner in Dhaka to protest recent interviews former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has given to several Indian media outlets, calling the coverage inappropriate for a fugitive currently on trial for crimes against humanity.
