A Bangladesh Nationalist Party minister claimed Saturday that the country’s media enjoy “complete freedom,” days after the Tarique Rahman government threatened news organizations with legal action for carrying former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s speech from New Delhi.
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said Saturday that India cannot seek friendly relations with Bangladesh while allowing ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to make statements from Delhi that he said undermine Bangladesh’s democracy.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) official Tariqul Alam Tenzing questioned whether Sheikh Hasina actually delivered a recent speech linked to an event in India, suggesting artificial intelligence (AI) may have been used to clone her voice.
Bangladesh will launch its Family Card program on Aug. 16 with a Tk 14,500 crore budget, approximately $1.18 billion, covering 41 lakh, or 4.1 million, households during the current fiscal year.
Bangladesh’s major television networks and newspapers failed their audiences when they refused to report meaningfully on Sheikh Hasina’s Aug. 5 speech in New Delhi.
A large number of Bangladeshi television networks published hundreds of news segments on Aug. 5, but none of the networks provided viewers with meaningful details about Sheikh Hasina’s speech in New Delhi.
Six major Bangladeshi newspapers did not publish reports detailing fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Aug. 5 speech to journalists in New Delhi, a review of their websites found.
Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina said Wednesday that she plans to return home in December after two years in exile in India, despite facing a death sentence.
Police arrested former National Citizen Party leader Gazi Salahuddin Tanvir on Wednesday over an allegedly objectionable Facebook post about Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.
Tarique Rahman delivered the speech on Aug. 4, 2026, during an event marking the second anniversary of Bangladesh’s July Revolution. The 2024 uprising culminated in the ouster of the government led by Sheikh Hasina and became a defining moment in the country’s recent political history. Speaking two years later, Rahman reflected on the movement, democratic […]
