Dhaka, April 8 (IANS) Bangladesh Awami League has strongly condemned the arrest of Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, former Parliament speaker, calling the case against her “baseless and fabricated”. Chaudhury, the country’s first female Speaker, was taken into custody by Bangladesh police from her residence in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi early Tuesday morning.Citing sources, Bangladeshi daily Dhaka Tribune reported that a case has been lodged against Chaudhury in connection with the fatal shooting of gol…
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Dhaka/Colombo, April 5 (IANS) Last year, the then interim government of Bangladesh, under the leadership of Muhammad Yunus, had banned all activities of the Bangladesh Awami League and its related outfits, through the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance 2025. Now, the new government, led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has reportedly proposed to make the ban permanent.This reflects an alarming objective, including the effective criminalisation and possible political extinction of the…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Bangladesh’s deposed premier Sheikh Hasina criticised her country’s election held on Thursday as “an exercise in industrial-scale administrative manipulation and numerical fraud”, and sought its annulment. Calculating the percentage of voter participation against the total number of electors, as updated by the Bangladesh Election Commission from time-to-time on Thursday, she pointed out that while the turnout was low initially, later figures “presented highly i…
Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) Odommo Jobian Oikko, a panel backed by radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, has registered a landslide victory, securing 16 of the 21 posts – including those of Vice-President (VP), General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) – in the just-concluded Bangladesh’s Jagannath University Central Students Union (JnUCSU) elections, the local media reported on Thursday. The student wings of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chh…
Dhaka, Dec 7 (IANS) Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people of India for their “support and humanity’, former Bangladesh Prime Minister and President of the Bangladesh Awami League, Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that New Delhi is right to continue upholding the importance of democratic principles, minority protection, and regional stability in Dhaka. “India has been Bangladesh’s closest neighbour and partner. Our two countries are bound by history, geography, mutual cooperation …
Dhaka, Dec 7 (IANS) Former Bangladesh Prime Minister and President of the Bangladesh Awami League, Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday slammed the interim government in the country headed by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus for allowing extremist groups to operate with total impunity and perpetrate unspeakable atrocities against non-Muslims, especially Hindus. “Responsibility lies with those who currently exercise power and have failed in their most basic duty: to protect all citizens equally. The surge in v…
Dhaka, Dec 28 (IANS) Tarique Rahman, the son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, returned to the country recently after 17 years in exile and is now expected to emerge as a crucial player in the all-important electoral battle slated for early next year.Rahman, who opted for self-exile and moved to London in 2008, has been serving as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman since 2018.With Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League barred from contesting the elections and …
Dhaka, Dec 25 (IANS) Former Bangladesh Prime Minister and President of the Bangladesh Awami League, Sheikh Hasina on Thursday slammed the “illegal” interim government in the country headed by Muhammad Yunus for perpetrating unspeakable atrocities against non-Muslims. In a message to the Awami League supporters on the occasion of Christmas, Hasina stated that the Yunus government has set “horrific precedents” such as burning religious minorities to death.”In the recent past, Bangladesh stood as a…