Bangladesh at the crossroads – again
The verdict by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on November 17 to award the death sentence to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of crimes against humanity will have…
Bangladesh student protesters plan new party to cement their revolution
Student demonstrators who ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have rejected calls from Bangladesh’s two main political parties for quick elections and are considering creating their own party to cement in…
Ouster of Bangladesh ally a diplomatic dilemma for India
The ouster of Bangladesh’s autocratic premier sparked celebrations in Dhaka this week but alarm in neighbouring India, which backed Sheikh Hasina to counter rival China and quash Islamist alternatives, analysts…
Bangladesh coup
The more than one month long agitation in Bangladesh against the quota policy has finally ended in a military coup. Army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman led the army action, giving Prime Minister…
Revolution in Bangladesh
The protests in Bangladesh had been going on for some weeks, during which time the Sheikh Hasina government blocked the internet and tried to deal with the protests with an…
Workers’ protests in Bangladesh
Strikes and protests by thousands of garment factory workers in Bangladesh have closed down more than 500 factories and crippled production. The protests started from the Ghazipur industrial area but…
Bangladesh: the people’s republic?
Mockery, death of democracy, dictatorship, authoritarianism – these are amongst a plenitude of other terms that have been used to describe the 11th. parliamentary election in Bangladesh which took place…
Bangladesh’s war of attrition
The conviction and sentence awarded to Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s former prime minister and the opposition leader, for graft has not sprung up anyone by surprise. Since she started her third…
Crisis in Bangladesh
The worthy Sheikh Hasina Wajid is back as prime minister of crisis-hit Bangladesh for the third spell in the wake of the recent violence-plagued parliamentary elections that lost credibility in…
Bangladesh`s identity crisis
Various Islamist groups in Bangladesh are demanding that a new anti-blasphemy law be formulated under which the death penalty can be awarded to those who defame Islam and the Prophet…
