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'Shows people's desire to keep Jamaat out': Taslima Nasrin says BNP's Bangladesh poll landslide not due to party's 'popularity'

NEW DELHI: Author Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since being forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 over her novel "Lajja," said on Saturday that the sweeping victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the recent elections reflects the public’s determination to prevent Islamist radicals from coming to…

The Times of India

Bangladesh crisis: Sound grenades & tear gas used on protesters near Yunus residence

Massive protests erupted outside Chief Adviser Mohammad Yunus’s official residence, Jamuna, on Friday as government employees staged demonstrations demanding the immediate implementation of the ninth national pay scale.

The Times of India

Bangladesh’s ousted Sheikh Hasina charged with crimes against humanity

Former leader, who is in hiding in India, indicted over deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last year

The Guardian - UK

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Negotiating realities in frosty India-Bangladesh relations

The manipulation of historical memory is often inseparable from the pursuit of political power. In Bangladesh, successive governments have used state machinery to revise official narratives about the 1971 Liberation War and post-independence politics. However, the current interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus appears to be undertaking the most far-reaching transformation yet.

Newslaundry

‘People see government as the enemy’: Bangladesh’s interim leader on the legacy of a toxic system

A year after a student-led revolt unseated Sheikh Hasina, Muhammad Yunus is fighting to convince both sides of politics to agree to reform

The Guardian - UK

Has Bangladesh’s revolution been a success?

Almost five months after thousands of protesters toppled Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian government, Bangladesh is still consumed by protests and struggling with an economic crisis. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports

The Independent UK

Why a Pakistan cargo vessel’s arrival in Bangladesh is being hailed as a historic moment

Pakistan high commission says first direct cargo vessel to Bangladesh marks a major step in bilateral trade

The Independent UK

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The slogans, the geopolitics, and the fraught second liberation of Bangladesh

A new interim government headed by Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, 84, is taking shape in Bangladesh following Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh since 2008, resigned and fled the country this week to escape a student-led mass revolt against her rule, plunging the nation of 174 million…

Newslaundry

Why world figures urged Bangladesh to stop ‘harassment’ of a Nobel laureate

As Yunus faces corruption and labour law charges, global figures say country’s only Nobel winner is being ‘persecuted’.

Al Jazeera

UN ‘concerned’ by harassment of human rights defenders in Bangladesh

UN human rights chief Volker Turk calls on Dhaka to create a ‘safe’ environment for activists and civil society leaders.

Al Jazeera

Two Rohingya camp leaders killed in Bangladesh

Rohingya leaders were hacked to death in one of the worst attacks in recent months.

Al Jazeera

Tensions as Bangladesh accuses Myanmar of firing in its territory

Weeks of firing escalates tensions between the neighbours, raising concerns of new Rohingya exodus into Bangladesh.

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