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Bangladesh won independence on Dec. 16, 1971, with the help of neighboring India. Bangladesh says 3 million people died, 200,000 women were raped and nearly 1 million people fled to India during ...
It was founded in 1987 by Fazlul Karim as Islami Shashontantra Andolan (Islamic Governance Movement), and took its current name in 2008. [2] The party maintains distance from both of the dominant parties in Bangladesh, Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party. In the recent years, the party has gradually done well in the local government ...
Students in Bangladesh began a quota reform movement in early June 2024 after the Bangladesh Supreme Court invalidated the government's 2018 circular regarding job quotas in the public sector. The movement escalated into a full-fledged mass uprising after the government carried out mass killings of protesters, known as July massacre , by the ...
The Arakan Army announces their capture of Maungdaw, Rakhine State, giving them full control over the Bangladesh–Myanmar border. 26 November 2024 – The Bangladesh Police fire tear gas at more than 2,000 Hindus protesting in Chittagong, Bangladesh, against the arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das, a Hindu leader and ISKCON monk, on sedition charges ...
DHAKA (Reuters) -Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus made an emotional return home to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a new interim government after weeks of student protests forced Prime Minister ...
Improving law and order in Bangladesh is a priority for the new caretaker government, the adviser to the interior ministry said on Friday, as the battered nation limps back to normality after ...
Awami League men set fire to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party office. [38] The home of Shamsul Hoque Tuku, deputy speaker of Bangladesh Parliament, was vandalized. [2] The home of Hosne Ara, a Member of Parliament, was burned and looted during the violence. [44] Two Jubo League leaders were murdered in Bogura District. [41]
Six television channels, namely STV-US, CSB News, Channel 1, Diganta Television, Islamic TV, and Channel 16, have been taken off air. Bangladesh has four state-owned television stations, of which only three broadcast on terrestrial television, which are BTV Dhaka, BTV Chittagong, and Sangsad Television.