New textbooks will say that Ziaur Rahman, not Bangabandhu Mujibur Rahman, proclaimed Bangladesh independence on March 26 ...

open image in gallery People have put garlands of shoes on Sheikh Hasina’s portrait in Dhaka in a show of disrespect (Middle East Images/AFP via Getty) Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy ...

I first met Sheikh Hasina in the 1990s, when she was fiercely campaigning to end military rule in Bangladesh. Our last meeting was in 2008, when she was campaigning against another military regime.

India has shown no sign of complying with Bangladesh’s formal request to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from New Delhi. Hasina fled to India during the massive student-led ...

Meanwhile, Sheikh Hasina held an iron grip on power ... The first blow came when Khaleda was forcibly evicted from her Dhaka cantonment house, which she had called home for decades.

They carried the national flag and chanted slogans against Hasina. “My son Shahriar, a ninth-grade student, was killed (during the protests),” Abul Hasan told the rally. “Our tears will ...

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday opened the newly constructed Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Bhaban and Sena Prangan (Army Central Auditorium) Bhaban in Dhaka Cantonment.

The move comes as the political landscape shifts following the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government earlier ... Bank's Shaheed Moinul Road branch in Dhaka Cantonment to cover her regular expenses.