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Student activists and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami could stump BNP and Awami League
By Kallol Bhattacherjee/The Hindu New Delhi, October 15 – Bangladesh’s political landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation ahead of the general election which is to take place in February 2026. Student advisers and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI), Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, which extended support to...
Yunus the compulsive flyer – 14 foreign trips in one year
By Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan/Times of Bangladesh Colombo, October 15 – Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has been in office for just over a year. In that short span, he has managed 14 foreign trips—almost one every month. The Nobel laureate, once hailed as the face of...
UN Rights commissioner Volker Turk urges Bangladesh to substitute fairness and reconciliation for vengefulness and revenge
Geneva, October 15 (TOB)- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has welcomed the initiation of legal proceedings against those accused of enforced disappearances and torture under the previous regime in Bangladesh, calling it a critical step towards accountability. “This marks the first...
Sheikh Hasina – The woman who carried Bangladesh through chaos, now tried by the court of Western opinion
As Bangladesh’s most enduring leader faces global scrutiny, her legacy forces the world to confront a deeper question — can stability born of strength still be called democracy?
Bangladesh professors charged under terrorism law for holding a discussion –
By Utpal Aditya Oikya Dhaka, October 9 – On 29 August 2025, Bangladesh witnessed an incident where a former Minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, Dhaka University Professor Sheikh Hafizur Rahman, journalist Manzurul Alam, and at least 13 others were handed over to the police by a mob while...
Canada-based democracy watchdog slams OHCHR report on Bangladesh violence
Colombo, October 9 – The Canada-based Global Centre for Democratic Governance (GCDG) has slammed the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on human rights violations during the July-August 2024 violent protests in Bangladesh, which resulted in the ouster of...
Bangladesh authorities undermining right to peaceful speech, association
New York, October 8 (Human Rights Watch) – Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace laureate, is increasingly using the recently amended counterterrorism law to arrest alleged supporters of the deposed Awami League government, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party would win sweeping majority: Tarique Rahman
Dhaka, October 6- Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman has said he will return to the country to contest upcoming elections. During an interview with the UK-based Financial Times (FT), the de facto chief of BNP also predicted that his party would win...
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