Dhaka, April 9 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Awami League has strongly denounced a parliamentary bill that effectively bans the party, terming the move a “disgraceful act” and a direct attack on democratic norms. The remarks came after the parliament passed the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2026 on Wednesday without altering the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance 2025 issued by the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government.Under the ordinance, the interim government amended the anti-terrorism law to…
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Dhaka, April 8 (IANS) With Bangladesh’s measles outbreak having claimed over 128 lives already since March 15, including mostly children, Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat on Wednesday accused the former Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of cancelling several public welfare initiatives introduced by the Sheikh Hasina-led government, including the national immunisation programme. The former Bangladesh Minister stressed that the previous interim government must be held responsible for le…
New Delhi/Dhaka, April 7 (IANS) Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday evening on a “goodwill visit” that Dhaka emphasised is expected to lay an “important foundation” for elevating the areas of cooperation between both countries to more productive and sustainable levels in the future. “Warm welcome to FM Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh on his arrival in New Delhi today. India and Bangladesh share warm and historic ties anchored in strong people to people relat…
Dhaka, April 7 (IANS) Bangladeshi police on Tuesday arrested senior Awami League leader and former Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the country’s first woman to hold the post, according to local media reports.Confirming the development, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Media) NM Nasiruddin said she was taken into custody from her residence in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi early Tuesday morning.Addressing the journalists, Nasiruddin said that Chaudhury is currently undergoing…
Dhaka, April 6 (IANS) Bangladesh faces significant challenges in preparing to graduate from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) list amid current macroeconomic instability and weak performance even as discussions continue on pre-graduation risks, local media reported. Bangladesh’s Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury chaired a meeting on LDC graduation held in Dhaka on Sunday. During the meeting, the UN-OHRLLS (United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Co…
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…
Dhaka, April 1 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed strongly condemned the ‘July National Charter (Constitutional Reform) Implementation Order, 2025’, issued during the previous Muhammad Yunus-led interim government term, terming it an “endless document of deception” and a “national fraud”, local media reported.Addressing the Parliament during a scheduled discussion initiated by the Leader of the Opposition and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman, the Home Minister said that the …
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s return to electoral politics has done little to settle the deeper questions surrounding its democratic future. The February 12 victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) may have produced a government, but it has not resolved the growing crisis of political exclusion, institutional imbalance, and the steady contraction of democratic space. At the center of this concern lies the exclusion of major political actors from the democratic process. The Awami League, one of …
Dhaka, March 28 (IANS) Former Bangladesh minister and Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat has called for the immediate removal of the ban on his party, saying the move is essential to restore political pluralism and uphold democratic principles.He alleged that Bangladesh’s February 12 parliamentary elections were “pre-arranged and rigged” and lacked democratic legitimacy.Taking to his social media platform X, Arafat posted: “To put things into perspective, imagine an election in the …
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chose the country’s National Day for his official car to mark the first time to bear the national flag since he assumed office as head of the government, according to reports from Dhaka. The image, while on way to pay homage to the Liberation War martyrs at the National Memorial in Savar on Thursday morning, should serve as a lesson for those who had declared a subtle intent to rewrite the country’s history and legacy.Rahman als…