Bangladesh remains calm a day after tribunal issues death sentence for ousted PM Sheikh HasinaFormer Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia for her role in suppressing a student uprising last year. Despite a ...
19 Nov, 2025, 08.12 AM IST
Global rights groups, think tanks question fairness of Bangladesh's ex-PM Hasina's trialInternational rights groups are questioning the fairness of Sheikh Hasina's death sentence. The former Bangladesh prime minister was senten...
18 Nov, 2025, 03.44 PM IST
UN says verdict against Hasina 'important' step for victims but regrets death penaltyIn a watershed moment, a Bangladeshi court has pronounced a death sentence against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in absentia, for he...
18 Nov, 2025, 09.36 AM IST
Bangladesh calls Indian foreign secretary's remark on elections 'unwarranted'Bangladesh's interim government has strongly criticized remarks by Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri regarding the country's general el...
08 Oct, 2025, 08.04 PM IST
Bangladesh bans Awami League as India remains engaged on western frontIn Bangladesh, the Md Yunus government has banned the Awami League. This action coincides with tensions between India and Pakistan. Sheikh ...
12 May, 2025, 01.25 AM IST
India tells Bangladesh to protect all minorities; hopes arrested monk will get fair justiceIndia has urged Bangladesh's interim government to protect minorities amidst rising extremist rhetoric and violence against Hindus. It also...
02 Dec, 2024, 10.42 AM IST
Dhaka University students protest in solidarity with demonstrations over Kolkata rape incidentStudents at Dhaka University in Bangladesh protested in solidarity with demonstrations over the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor i...
17 Aug, 2024, 02.42 PM IST
Chinese firm refuses to honour pact on sharing Covid-19 vaccine tech with BangladeshSinovac Biotech Ltd in a letter on September 24 said the trial would be delayed unless the Bangladesh government provided funds, although t...
03 Oct, 2020, 10.46 PM IST
Modi-Hasina Summit in December; Delhi-Dhaka chalks out mega plans to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic tiesExternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced India’s decision to launch a commemorative postal stamp on the occasion of the birth cente...
29 Sep, 2020, 09.58 PM IST
Dhaka: Why Gulshan and Sholakia attacks were waiting to happenThere were five Gulshan terrorists who had all run away from home. Then there was the Sholakia attacker Abir Rahman, who had been missing s...
10 Jul, 2016, 10.18 AM IST
Why Bangladesh is under the gun after recent terrorist attackThese lobbyists are essentially trying to convince the US Congress and the State Department that the trials of alleged war criminals are un...
10 Jul, 2016, 01.43 AM IST
Pakistan's role in Bangladesh war crimes will always haunt themPakistan may have expressed regret to the people of Bangladesh in 2002, but does that exonerate those who stand accused or convicted of the...
27 May, 2016, 10.42 PM IST
Bangladesh Protest Letter against PakistanThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh presents its compliments to the High Commission of the I...
24 Nov, 2015, 09.32 PM IST
Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh appeal to Bangladesh government over bloggers' killingMore than 150 writers from around the world, including Mumbai-born Rushdie - whose work has angered Muslims around the world, have expresse...
22 May, 2015, 06.48 PM IST
John Kerry seeks Bangladesh government's action to peacefully end violenceHe stated there can be no tolerance for tactics that target innocent citizens or inhibit political expression in a democratic Bangladesh, t...
20 Feb, 2015, 08.32 AM IST
India, Bangladesh Foreign Ministers meet, no major headway on emotive issueOn India's long-pending demand for the extradition of ULFA leader Anup Chetia, he said the issue was discussed but refused to give any furt...
20 Sep, 2014, 07.04 PM IST
Result of upcoming Bangladesh polls has implications for IndiaBNP chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is convinced that elections cannot be free and fair, especially with Sheikh Hasina-le...
18 Dec, 2013, 06.20 AM IST