Feni, Bangladesh — AFP At least 13 people in Bangladesh have been killed and 4.5 million affected by floods triggered by heavy rains, the disaster management and relief ministry has said. The South Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers, has seen frequent floods in recent decades. It is among the countries...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s transitional government has decided to cancel all diplomatic passports, including one with which former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took refuge in neighboring India following an August 5 student-led revolution. The Ministry of Home Affairs has confirmed that diplomatic or red passports that are allocated ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh will maintain support for its immense Rohingya refugee population, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address. Yunus, 84, returned from Europe this month after a student-led revolution to take up the monumental task of steering democratic reforms in a coun...
ANKARA (AA) – A drone attack that killed over 200 fleeing Rohingya Muslims near the Bangladesh border on Monday has forced hundreds to return to their hometowns, while thousands are still taking shelter in paddy fields awaiting to cross into neighboring Bangladesh, according to a rights group. Risking their lives, a few hundred have move...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A UN fact-finding team will visit Bangladesh next week to set up a probe of hundreds of deaths during recent student-led protests which led the prime minister to step down, UN officials have announced. An independent inquiry commission will be funded and led by the UN, said Gwyn Lewis, the UN […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Blindfolded, handcuffed and bundled out of his secret prison for the first time in eight years, Bangladeshi barrister Ahmad Bin Quasem held his breath and listened for the sound of a cocked pistol. Instead, he was tossed from a car and into a muddy ditch on Dhaka’s outskirts — alive, at […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A case has been filed against Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, eight members of her now-dissolved cabinet and police officers on charges of “crimes against humanity” and “genocide,” according to an official. The case was filed at the local International Crimes Tribun...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as a suspect in a murder case, related to the killing of a grocery store owner in a police firing incident on July 19. This is the first murder case filed against Hasina, who fled to neighboring India on August 5. The […]
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the US of orchestrating her removal from power earlier this month. She alleges that it was linked to her refusal to cede control of Saint Martin Island, the southernmost part of Bangladesh, to the U.S. According to a recent report, Hasina claimed the U.S. wanted her to […]
A deadly drone strike near the border of Bangladesh and Burma has devastated the Rohingya community, killing more than 200 and forcing hundreds to return to their hometowns. The attack, carried out by the Arakan Army rebel group, targeted fleeing Rohingya Muslims near the Naf River, which separates the two countries. Despite risks, many Rohing...
