DHAKA: Allies of ousted Bangladeshi premier Sheikh Hasina were working to undermine the interim government that replaced her regime, two of her leading opponents warned on Friday (Nov 8) at a huge rally in the capital Dhaka. Hasina, 77, fled by helicopter to neighbouring India in August as a student-led uprising saw protesters flood streets of … Read more
As the attack was underway, a prominent leader of a student protest movement that led to Hasina’s ouster in August said the Jatiya Party should be “destroyed” for its support of her government. Hasnat Abdullah, the student leader, claimed in a Facebook post that the Jatiya party was “a national betrayer.” Abdullah is from the … Read more
Amid the uneasiness in ties since the downfall of the Sheikh Hasina government, external affairs minister S Jaishankar met Bangladesh’s foreign affairs adviser Touhid Hossain and discussed bilateral ties between the two countries. The meeting between Jaishankar and his Bangladeshi counterpart of the interim government on Monday evening came on the sidelines of the 79th … Read more
HISTORIC TIES Hasina’s links to India predate her 15-year rule, and New Delhi’s ties to Dhaka are as old as Bangladesh itself. In 1971, India fought a war with Pakistan to help liberate Bangladesh from its rule. Aside from military support, India also took in millions of refugees. Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – … Read more
New Delhi: Since its independence in 1971, India’s relationship with Bangladesh has “gone up and down” and it is natural that New Delhi deals with the government of the day, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. In his address at a book launch here, he also emphasised that India will have to look … Read more
Even as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has demanded that India extradite the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the bilateral extradition treaty specifies that extradition cannot be enforced in cases that are “political in nature”, said experts. The demand was raised by senior BNP leader Fakhruddin Alamgir. Experts pointed to Article 6 of the India-Bangladesh … Read more
New Delhi: Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, who has been appointed as the new home affairs adviser to the interim government in Bangladesh, replacing Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain, faced friction with India over several issues during the BNP rule between 2001-06 and his role in the current dispensation will be watched carefully, … Read more
Dhaka: A complaint was filed on Wednesday with the investigation agency of Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and several others, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity during the recent mass movement of the students against her government. “The complaint was filed by the father of one of the students … Read more
“TEMPORARY CRISIS” The new administration has stressed it wants to put Bangladesh on a different path. Its foreign minister Touhid Hossain told a briefing of more than 60 foreign diplomats late Monday it was “very serious about human rights”, and vowed not to “allow any violence or damages to occur”. “All those committing such crimes … Read more
Guwahati: While Bangladesh is in turmoil, traders of Tripura and the neighbouring country on Tuesday took part in the ‘Border Haat’. Meghalaya government had suspended the operations of ‘Border Haats’ (markets) along the India-Bangladesh border. The trade took place in Srinagar (south Tripura)-Purba Madhugram (Bangladesh) and the weekly markets functioned normally. An official of Tripura … Read more
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