Campaign will start on 1 February, culminating in blockade & all-day hartals on 16 & 18 February. This follows an announcement that Awami League won't be allowed to contest polls in future.
Hasina, the 76-year-old former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, fled to India last August as student-led protests led to the toppling of her Awami League government.
‘I feel surviving 21 August killings, or bomb in Kotalipara, or surviving on 5 August, 2024, there must a hand of Allah,’ says Hasina in video message posted on Awami League’s Facebook.
In last 5 months, Hazrat Shah Paran in Sylhet, Dewanbagh Darbar Sharif in Narayanganj, Yajoora Darbar Sharif in Nangalkot & Rashidiya Darbar Sharif shrine in Kumarkhali targeted.
Hasina took away your bank and you’ve served revenge. Here’s the test: now that you have public office, it implies public trust. Can you have it and do nothing with it? And if you would, what will it be?
ICT issued warrants against Hasina & 11 others. Chief prosecutor told the tribunal during the hearing that Awami League had fostered a culture of state-sponsored enforced disappearances.
5 journalists of Somoy TV were dismissed after student protesters besieged the offices of the channel’s investors for its news coverage, which, they claimed, favours Hasina’s party.
Nasir Uddin Nasir, general secretary of Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal, says fall of Hasina regime was about bringing back democracy, attacks on which began under her father's reign.
Instead of restoring normalcy and create an atmosphere of social harmony, the Md Yunus regime is riveted on one objective—to continue its vendetta against Sheikh Hasina.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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