While elections in Bangladesh are still a year away, it should contemplate why democracy has a chequered history in the ...

Sheikh Mujib wanted a one-party government and absolute power. He believed that with absolute control, he could manage ...

Bangladesh might not have come into existence in 1971 if Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was allowed to take office as the Prime Minister of a united Pakistan. Bangladesh, split between Bengali nationalism and ...

Five months after Sheikh Hasina’s removal, the party is divided. Some leaders won’t apologise; others want a reckoning.

Bangladesh’s largest minority rights group accused the country’s interim government on Thursday of failing to protect ...

Hasina fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the wake ... about a flat gifted by an ally of her aunt. Sheikh Hasina’s father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was known as the “founding father ...

If the past indicates the future, there is considerable doubt about the stability of democracy in Bangladesh .

Major General (Retd) KM Shafiullah, one of the prominent sector commanders of the Liberation War and former army chief, has ...

Zia is ailing and traveled to London earlier this month for medical treatment after being cleared in another corruption case brought under former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted last ...

Bangladesh is in a State of political and economic flux. There is a palpable absence of a unifying and competent ...

The bank accounts of 366 individuals and entities with a Tk 15,000 crore combined balance were frozen between August ... Hasina's sister Sheikh Rehana and Rehana's son Radwan Mujib Siddiq.

Sheikh Hasina ... leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Hasina fled into exile in neighbouring India following her removal amid violence that left hundreds of people dead in July and August.