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Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File. | Photo Credit: AP Fifteen months after leaving capital Dhaka in the midst of an uprising, Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that ‘mistakes’ were “certainly made” by security forces while responding to the ‘disordered situation’ during last year’s student-people uprising. In a written interview to…
Protesters during the August 2024 unrest that toppled the rule of Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh announced on Wednesday (November 5, 2025) cash rewards to surrender machine guns, rifles and pistols looted during an uprising last year, hoping to collect hundreds of weapons ahead of key elections. An estimated 6,000 firearms were…
Protesters say the “July National Charter”, named after the national uprising that started last July, doesn’t address their concerns. Published On 17 Oct 202517 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Police have fired tear gas and used grenades and batons to disperse protesters gathered outside Bangladesh’s national Parliament complex to…
Varanasi, India – Mohammed Ahmad Ansari has spent his entire life in the narrow and congested lanes of Varanasi, a city often described as the spiritual capital of India, and the constituency of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 55-year-old has spent decades weaving Banarasi saris and thoroughly enjoys the clacking noises of handlooms at…
Former prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, “issued an open order” to “use lethal weapons” on students protesting against her government’s policies last year and shoot “wherever they find them”, her secret phone call recordings, accessed by Al Jazeera, have revealed. Hasina, who ruled Bangladesh for 15 years, resigned from office and fled to India…
Sheikh Hasina. File | Photo Credit: PTI Bangladesh‘s International Crimes Tribunal on Monday (July 7, 2025) set July 10, 2025 to determine whether charges will be framed against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her top aides. Ms. Hasina, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah…
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Monday officially disbanded deposed premier Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League under an overnight revised anti-terrorism law, two days after Muhammad Yunus’s interim government slapped a ban on its “activities” under the previous version of the law. “A gazette notification has been issued in this regard today,” home adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam…
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government on Saturday banned the Awami League, the political party of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, pending the outcome of a trial over its crackdown on mass protests that prompted her ouster last year. According to the United Nations, up to 1,400 protesters died in July 2024 when Hasina’s government launched a…
101 East investigates the downfall of Bangladesh’s ruthless regime and goes inside the fight to reclaim democracy. Enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings: The human rights abuses allegedly committed by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime have left scores of Bangladeshis scarred and traumatised. After a student-led movement overthrew the government in 2024, the full extent…
Dhaka, Bangladesh – On Monday, Bangladesh marked its first Bengali New Year, also known as Pahela Baishakh, since a student-led uprising ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year. But the renaming of an iconic parade, which has been held on the occasion for decades, has led to a debate online and offline, highlighting a…
