Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party on Wednesday (Jan 30) announced a series of programmes in February to protest "persecution" across the country and demand the resignation of the current government,

Awami League has announced a series of political programs, including a general strike and a nationwide blockade.

A Dhaka court today issued a travel ban on Jahangir Alam, former personal aide to the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and his wife Kanrun Nahar in connection with a corruption case filed over amassing wealth of Tk 18.

The High Court will deliver its verdict on February 5 on the appeals against the trial court judgement, which sentenced nine people to death and life imprisonment to 25 others, in a case over the atta

DHAKA, Jan 30, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today imposed travel ban on Sheikh Hasina's ex-PA Jahangir Alam and his wife Kamrun Nahar The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md. Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order in response to the plea of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Members of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement have been staging a hunger strike until death in Chattogram since 12:30pm today (30 January), demanding the execution of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and all those allegedly involved in mass killings during the July movement.

The High Court (HC) has fixed 5 February to pronounce a verdict in a case filed over an attempt to kill Sheikh Hasina while she was an opposition leader in 1994.

According to the HRW report, "Officers involved in enforced disappearances told the agency that Sheikh and senior officers of her government had knowledge of incommunicado detentions, and that, in some cases, Hasina directly ordered enforced disappearances and killings."

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government has started preparations to remove Saima Wazed, the daughter of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, from the post of World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Director for South-East Asia.

Hasina fled into exile last August after a student-led revolution ended her 15 years of autocratic rule, capping an uprising that claimed hundreds of lives. An interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus took charge days later, pledging to institute far-reaching democratic reforms and stage fresh elections.

Earlier Bangladesh's interim government led by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus was seeking to renegotiate the 2017 deal with Adani and alleged that Adani withheld tax benefits.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its investigation found ousted Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina had directly ordered disappearances