New Delhi, India– AFP The son of Bangladesh’s toppled leader has thanked New Delhi for “saving her life”, accused caretaker authorities of allowing “mob rule” and warned of chaos ahead without swift elections. Sheikh Hasina, 76, quit as prime minister last Monday after a student-led uprising and fled by heli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s law minister announced on Tuesday that the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party and its students’ wing would be banned. Anisul Huq told reporters in the capital Dhaka that the government will ban the religio-political party and its students’ wing Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir by using R...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — AFP Torn portraits of Bangladesh’s independence hero litter a ransacked state television station — a pointed expression of public fury against his daughter, who just witnessed the worst unrest of her premiership. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed the nation on Bangladesh Television (BTV) last week to ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh ordered schools and universities around the country to close indefinitely on Tuesday after six students were killed in protests that prompted the mobilisation of paramilitaries to keep order. Every high school, university and Islamic seminary around the country was told to remain shut until further noti...
Beijing, China – – AFP China has congratulated Bangladesh’s ruling party for its victory in Sunday’s elections, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secured a fifth term in a vote marked by an opposition boycott and mass arrests. “China congratulates Bangladesh on successfully holding its national election as schedu...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday dismissed the opposition’s criticism of the country’s general election as “illegitimate” as she celebrated securing her fifth term in power. Hasina has presided over breakneck economic growth in a country once beset by grinding pover...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Hundreds of lawyers in Bangladesh have boycotted courts as part of the “non-cooperation movement” called by the opposition parties. Bangladesh will hold the 12th parliamentary elections on January 7. The opposition parties led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced boycotting the Sunday electio...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s Election Commission on Monday assured the opposition parties of reconsidering the election schedule if they decide to participate in the upcoming national election slated for Jan. 7 next year. “We will welcome the opposition parties if they decide to participate in the upcoming election. We will create opp...
