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A Bangladeshi war-crimes tribunal on Monday sentenced former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death for four counts of crimes against humanity linked to last year’s July uprising.

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s account of why she fled Bangladesh is facing growing scrutiny as independent investigations continue to tie her government to last year’s deadly crackdown on student protesters.

Bangladesh’s constitutional commitment to secularism is not a rejection of religion. It is a safeguard for all faiths, especially for minority communities that rely on the state’s neutrality for protection. The 15th Amendment restored this balance after decades in which religious identity was leveraged for political purposes. Undoing that step risks reintroducing majoritarian pressures that […]

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.

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.

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 […]

At least 18 people were injured and one man died of a suspected heart attack as clashes erupted among rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) factions over election nominations across several districts, police said Sunday.