Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government on Tuesday cancelled a national holiday on August 15, marking the assassination of the country’s founder and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. According to the press release issued by the Chief Advisor’s Office, the cancellation of the August 15 holiday was approved in today’s meeting of … Read more
Bangladesh is currently hogging headlines everywhere for all the wrong reasons. Its long-time leader Sheikh Hasina has just been overthrown, causing her to flee the country. The nation is not new to such violent political events. It has seen it all — assassinations, army rule, copious political bloodletting — at various points in its short … Read more
DHAKA: What began as peaceful protests by students in Bangladesh against a quota system for government jobs eventually turned into an uprising that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country by helicopter. The end to her 15 years in power came after weeks of violent unrest during which nearly 300 people … Read more
The Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League scored a resounding victory in Sunday’s parliamentary polls, winning 222 out of 300 Parliamentary seats so far, enabling the veteran leader to return to form government for the fourth straight term. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said that the turnout for the 12th national Parliamentary polls was 41.8%. The … Read more
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secured a fourth straight term as expected with her party winning an absolute majority in the general election, the poll body said on Monday, amid low turnout in the vote boycotted by the main opposition. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who participated in the 2018 polls but stayed … Read more
With an Opposition boycott, nearly 120 million Bangladeshis began voting on Sunday in the general elections expected to be won by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who has held the position since 2008. The run up to the elections has been marred with incidents of violence and arson where at least five schools were set ablaze along … Read more
