Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Two women dominated Bangladeshi politics for decades. One was chased into exile. The other is newly free from custody and too sick to rule, but her heir looks set to take power. Autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, 76, fled the country by helicopter for neighbouring India this month as huge crowds demanding [&hell...
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 president ordered the release of opposition leader Khaleda Zia late Monday, hours after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid widespread protests. A statement from President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s office said that all political parties had agreed to dissolve parliament to form a tr...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh announced that a curfew will continue Friday and Saturday with a nine-hour pause amid an intensified crackdown against those involved in violence during student protests. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced at a news conference early Friday after meeting with law enforcement that the curfew, which came ...
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) – At least four people, including a woman and her three-year-old child, were killed in Bangladesh Tuesday morning in what authorities confirmed was an arson attack on a commuter train. Arsonists in the capital Dhaka set alight three cars of the Mohanganj Express at the Tejgaon Railway Station, according to the medi...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh’s main opposition leader was detained for questioning on Sunday morning, as clashes continued for a second day between police and protesters against the prime minister ahead of upcoming elections. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman said the leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist P...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh on Sunday barred ailing opposition leader and two-time prime minister Khaleda Zia from traveling abroad for treatment. Law Minister Anisul Huq said no to an appeal forwarded by Zia’s family, noting his ministry cannot allow her to travel overseas in line with existing law. “The government has no opportunity ...
