Nagpur: Bangladesh-Nagpur — read the last lines of addresses on shop signboards here. A month after the new country was created out of erstwhile East Pakistan, a Bangladesh was born in Nagpur too.

A presidential system would allow any individual, irrespective of party affiliation, to run directly for the highest office, breaking the monopoly of legacy politics and creating space for new ...

Weeks of mounting political tension have erupted into protests and bloodshed in Bangladesh, leaving the country on edge ahead of general elections due in January. Several senior opposition leaders ...

The 2024 election is a matter of political survival for both the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. The BNP’s decision to go for all-out street protests could ...

Thousands of Rohingya fled to what is now Bangladesh in four main periods ... conflict which were in turn triggered by broader political struggles. This section provides a description of each ...

Fifteen political parties, including Gono Forum, Liberal Democrats Party (LDP) and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (Andaleeve), are among those which will join Saturday's dialogue. To discuss the ongoing ...

Recent political upheaval in Bangladesh has exposed deep vulnerabilities in the nation's governance and raised concerns over foreign influence. As an interim government assumes control in Dhaka ...

Bangladesh witnessed a massive political turmoil and violent protest led by student organisations in August this year. Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina had to step down on August 5 and fled to ...

In the House of Mirrors, political captives were pushed to ... prime minister for the first time in 1996. Image A torn poster of Bangladesh’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, after ...

ordered the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and to produce her in court on November 18," Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor of ... killings of her political opponents.

As a voter in elections of my youth, I remember one could pull one lever (on stone age voting machines) and all Democrats or all Republicans automatically received straight party votes ...