Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) Bangladesh is undergoing an unstable transition following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, enabling Islamist extremists and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to exploit power vacuums. With decades of experience, the ISI is weaponising religious identity to destabilise the region, a report said on Thursday.According to a report in Bangladeshi weekly ‘Blitz’, while political turbulence is not new to Bangladesh, the serial killings of Hin…
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Dhaka, Jan 6 (IANS) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has asserted that the country’s existence remains rooted in the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan, local media reported. “The Liberation War is the foundation of Bangladesh as a State and its politics. The country’s very existence cannot be imagined without 1971,” Bangladeshi media outlet BSS quoted Tarique as saying during a meeting with leaders of the Democratic United Front (DUF), a coalition of Banglad…
Dhaka, Jan 1 (IANS) Former Bangladesh Prime Minister and President of the Awami League, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday, accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of pushing the country towards darkness through unchecked corruption, falsehood, and the pursuit of serving personal interests.In a New Year message shared by the Awami League party on X, Hasina said those conspiring to destroy the country have already been exposed before the nation.“May the New Year bring boundless harmony, happi…
Coimbatore, Dec 29 (IANS) Sadhguru, founder of the Isha Foundation, has described the Siliguri Corridor as a “78-year-old anomaly” created by India’s Partition, saying it should have been corrected decades ago and that the time has now come to “nourish the chicken” and “allow it to evolve into an elephant”.He made the remarks while responding to an audience question on comments made by Bangladesh’s interim government regarding the Siliguri Corridor, also known as the ‘Chicken’s Neck’, during a s…
Dhaka, Dec 29 (IANS) As the National Citizen Party (NCP) announced its decision to join a Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance ahead of the Bangladesh general elections, triggering sharp internal dissent, party convenor Nahid Islam moved to clarify that the partnership was purely electoral and not based on any ideological convergence.Islam said the NCP had initially been preparing to contest the upcoming polls independently and had drawn up plans to field candidates in all 300 parliamentary constituenci…
Dhaka, Dec 28 (IANS) Ahead of the Bangladesh general elections, the National Citizen Party (NCP) has sought to clarify its position on forming an alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami, even as serious dissatisfaction has surfaced within the party, with dozens of senior leaders threatening mass resignation over the issue.NCP Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain explained the party’s position in a statement posted on the party’s verified Facebook page on Saturday night.Referring to discussions held at the cons…
Dhaka: As Bangladesh gears up for its 13th national election slated in February 2026, Dhaka’s political climate is marred with challenges the country has never faced before. Since August 2024, communal violence, mobocracy, ethnic attacks, the rise of Islamist extremism, systemic target of dissident voices and aggressive attempts at historical revisionism have become akin to ‘new’ Bangladesh. The Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, however, promised this election to be Bangladesh’s first ‘free and fair…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has a plan, he told his countrymen on Thursday, December 25, in Dhaka, but did not deal much with its details. Both the parents of the 60-year-old BNP leader had stints as head of government at different times. While his father Ziaur Rahman was the sixth President of Bangladesh from 1977 until his assassination in 1981, Tarique’s mother was the first female Prime Minister to hold office between 1991-1996…
Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) Former Bangladesh Minister and Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat on Wednesday alleged that radical Islamist groups were primarily responsible for the attacks on the country’s leading media offices and cultural institutions following the death of extremist leader Sharif Osman Hadi. “Not only the offices of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, but also the premises of leading Bangladeshi cultural institutions such as ‘Chhayanaut’ and ‘Udichi Shilpigoshthi’ were attacked in Dh…