As the 13th national election approaches, calls for building a “New Bangladesh” have once again taken centre stage in political…
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Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, once sidelined from the political arena, is making notable strides with the potential to become…
Jamaat-e-Islami has rolled out an ambitious mix of welfare pledges, economic reforms and anti-corruption vows, promising interest-free loans, lower taxes…
An envisioned post-uprising transition from “authoritarian kleptocracy” to democracy is derailed by reform-reactionaries and a section of the bureaucracy, says…
Khaleda Zia, who served as prime minister of Bangladesh for three terms, died on Tuesday morning at the age of…
Labour MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq has described her two year prison sentence in Bangladesh as “deeply unfair” after…
In early December, 48-year-old Tipu Sultan, a grassroots activist of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), stood outside Dhaka’s Evercare Hospital…
Khaleda Zia, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh who was synonymous with the country’s political dynamics for decades, has passed…
Getty ImagesKhaleda Zia was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh, serving from 1991-1996 and 2001-2006Khaleda Zia, who has died…
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison…