Ruling Awami League faces no serious challenge from Opposition, which boycotted polls after Sheikh Hasina refused their demand to conduct elections under caretaker govt.
Led by former prime minister Khalida Zia, Bangladesh Nationalist Party is boycotting general election and demanding an interim non-party neutral government to hold the election.
BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has been sentenced in absentia to jail terms ranging from 3 years to lifetime. He has his supporters, but many journalists remember his ‘excesses’.
Tens of thousands of protestors, mostly supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, took to the streets Friday and Saturday to demand Sheikh Hasina’s resignation.
Opposition BNP in poll-bound Bangladesh is seen as anti-India and anti-Hindu. Its top Hindu faces, Nitai Roy Chowdhury and his daughter Nipun, are trying to counter this perception.
BNP is likely to fight parliamentary election in Bangladesh without the kin of Ziaur Rahman leading the campaign.
The conviction of Tarique Rahman, the acting chairperson of...
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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