Women leaders are lauded for their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the data is often cherry-picked
Three men were shot by police while six others died in clashes between activists from the ruling Awami League Party and opposition BNP
At the end of an election campaign marked by deadly violence, internet services were slowed across the country with 3G and 4G services suspended
Clashes over a war crimes verdict is likely to be a mere warm-up as factions seek to establish supremacy in the run-up to Bangladesh’s polls.
Troops fanned out across Bangladesh on Monday to hunt 1 000 fugitive soldiers blamed for a revolt by border guards that left 78 dead.
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/ 27 February 2009
Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina has passed the first major test of her premiership in facing down a deadly mutiny by underpaid border guards.
Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the South Asian country’s prime minister on Tuesday, ending two years of rule by an army-backed interim government.
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/ 31 December 2008
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday she would share power with the opposition despite winning a massive majority.
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/ 30 December 2008
An alliance under Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina won a massive parliamentary majority in the country’s first polls in seven years.
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/ 27 December 2008
Candidates in Monday’s Bangladesh election to restore democracy after two years of emergency rule have traded heated charges of corruption.