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

No reform can be permanent without internal changes in the country’s major political parties, said speakers at a roundtable ...

It would do well to learn from the experience of the Pakistan Army, which is now grappling with the consequences of fostering ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the use of bullets to suppress movements or any political program ...

Bangladesh's political parties project an air of vibrant democracy on the surface. Yet behind the scenes, democracy ends where leadership begins. Power is concentrated in the hands of a few ...

At the height of political oppression under Hasina in 2023 ... By granting asylum to Hasina in August 2024, India showed her full support to the ex-leader to extract maximum advantage from Bangladesh ...

DHAKA, Jan 31, 2025 (BSS) - The political leadership ordered the excessive use of police force during the July uprising, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), one of the world's most respected human rights ...

When the army intervened in Bangladesh in 2007, its new rulers locked up both Sheikh Hasina and her archival, Khaleda Zia, ...

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

Sheikh Hasina using the police and shotguns killed people in this country and this must never happen again,” he said ...

DHAKA, Jan 28, 2025 (BSS) - Brazilian Ambassador to Bangladesh Paulo Fernando Dias Feres today called on Bangladesh ...