Dhaka, Jan 19 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Monday framed charges against 39 people, including Chinmoy Krishna Das, a prominent Hindu leader and spokesperson for the Bangladesh Sammilito Sanatani Jagaran Jot, in connection with the alleged murder of Chattogram court lawyer Saiful Islam Alif outside the court premises in November 2024.Judge Md Jahidul Haque of the Chattogram Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal indicted all the arrested accused, including Chinmoy, during the proceedings.Speaking to Ba…
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Dhaka, Jan 19 (IANS) Sajeeb Wazed, son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, alleged that the February 12 election in Bangladesh is a staged drama rather than a transparent democratic process, accusing the “illegal” radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami-backed interim government led by Muhammad Yunus of orchestrating it.Wazed warned that efforts are underway to legitimise a rigged election in the South Asian nation, claiming that extremist fundamentalist forces that seized powe…
Dhaka, Jan 18 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Law Advisor Asif Nazrul on Sunday admitted that establishing the rule of law remains the biggest challenge in the country. However, he noted that significant progress has been made in that direction, local media reported. Nazrul cautioned that achieving lasting success would be difficult without sincerity and commitment for the government, which will be elected following the general election set to be held in Bangladesh on February 12, United News of Bangladesh …
Dhaka, Jan 17 (IANS) Bangladesh interim government’s highly controversial and “unelected” Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus — a Nobel Peace Prize laureate — has faced extensive criticism, ridicule, and mockery during his 17-month tenure, often being labelled a “darling of the West”, a report has detailed. Like Yunus, it said, in Venezuela, Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado has not secured a public mandate in her country, and critics argue that the US support for her prize reflects an ef…
Canberra, Jan 17 (IANS) The revival of Tawhidi Janata — a loosely defined Islamist mobilisation in Bangladesh — is not through organised militancy but represents a morally driven form of coercive populism that flourishes where institutions falter, law enforcement weakens, and questions over political legitimacy persist, a report has stated. It added that by functioning openly and presenting the targetting of un-Islamic values as a religious obligation, this mobilisation enables evasion of im…
Dhaka, Jan 16 (IANS) Bangladesh’s interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus has appointed Omar bin Hadi, brother of slain Islamist leader Osman bin Hadi, as a Second Secretary at the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in United Kingdom’s Birmingham on a three-year contractual basis, local media reported on Friday. The appointment was announced through a notification signed by Abul Hayat Rafique, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration, Bangladesh’s leading daily Dhaka Tribun…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Violence against the minorities in Bangladesh is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on for several decades and has seen major outbreaks since 1989 onwards. The year 2025 witnessed a surge in the number of attacks on minority communities and officials in India say that since then, the targeting has been a relentless one.Between June 6, 2025 and January 5, 2026, 116 members of minority communities have been killed, according to a report by the Human Rights Congress fo…
Dhaka, Jan 14 (IANS) Bangladesh must adopt a zero-tolerance approach towards violence against foreign students backed by credible prosecution and not hollow assurances, a report highlighted on Wednesday urging local universities to move beyond imposing curfews and stand up for their students outside campus gates. “There are many ways a country can lose its moral standing. One of the quietest — and most corrosive — is when students begin to fear walking outside their hostels because of the …
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) A Rs. 50-crore project undertaken by the now-deposed Sheikh Hasina government to preserve the history of Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971, which included video interviews of about 15,000 participants, will be shelved now, said reports.Dhaka’s current administration has no plans to preserve the interviews, and the agency working on the project will not be paid, according to a report in Bangladesh’s prominent newspaper Prothom Alo on Wednesday.Officials told the n…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) The situation in Bangladesh continues to remain volatile, and the people are desperate for the election process to be completed in February. These are also crucial times for India, which shares a border with Bangladesh. However, in the run-up to the elections, there are anti-India forces in Bangladesh who are running disinformation campaigns in a bid to provoke India. Intelligence Bureau officials have noticed that this trend is rising with the elections coming near. The…