Bangladesh
6 Aug
Student leaders in Bangladesh on Tuesday demanded Nobel winner Muhammad Yunus lead a caretaker government, a day after the military took control as mass demonstrations forced long-time ruler Sheikh Hasina to flee the country. Hasina, 76, had been in power since 2009 but was accused of rigging elections in January and then watched millions of…
5 Aug
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule of the country ended on Monday as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government. Hasina had sought since early July sought to quell nationwide protests against her government, but she fled after a brutal day of unrest on Sunday…
4 Aug
Clashes between Bangladeshi protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign and pro-government supporters killed at least eight people on Sunday, including with knife cuts and bullet wounds, police and doctors said. Three were killed in the northern district of Pabna, two in the northern district of Rangpur, two in the capital Dhaka's Munshiganj district and…
3 Aug
Bangladesh has imposed a ban on social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube. The move was announced on Friday, August 2, and has effectively restricted access to these social networks across Bangladesh. Global Eyes News had earlier reported the ban through its official X account, confirming that from Friday onward, access to these…
3 Aug
Student leaders rallied Bangladeshis on Saturday for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government weathered a worsening backlash over a deadly police crackdown on protesters. Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem last month that killed more than 200 people in some of the worst unrest of Hasina's…
27 May
The death toll from a cyclone that smashed into low-lying areas of Bangladesh has risen to at least 10 people, with more than 30,000 homes destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged, top local officials said Monday.
26 May
At least 800,000 Bangladeshis fled their coastal villages Sunday for concrete storm shelters further inland as the low-lying nation prepared for crashing waves when a cyclone makes landfall, top government disaster officials said.
26 May
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis left their coastal villages Sunday for concrete storm shelters further inland as the low-lying nation prepared for the expected landfall of an intense cyclone, officials said.
28 Apr
Millions of students returned to their reopened schools across Bangladesh Sunday despite a lingering heatwave that prompted a nationwide classroom shutdown order last weekend.
30 Mar
Kicked out of other prayer services, members of Bangladesh's transgender hijra community have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority nation with the promise of worship without discrimination. The humble structure -- a single-room shed with walls and a roof clad in tin -- is a new community hub for the minority, who…
1 Jan
Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was facing six months in jail with a court set to rule on Monday on a labour law case decried by his supporters as politically motivated.
20 Dec 2023
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched her campaign for a fifth term on Wednesday, as opposition parties called for civil disobedience and said the January 7 polls would not be fair. "If I can form government again, we will turn the entire of Bangladesh into a prosperous and developed country," Hasina told reporters in the…
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