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Bangladesh: How Muhammad Yunus is ensuring revival of the Islamist BNP in politics

Op India

Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor of the interim government of Bangladesh, has been furthering the agenda of Sheikh Hasina’s rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party. The BNP is now pressing the Yunus regime to create a ‘conducive environment’ for the safe return of Tarique Rehman to Bangladesh. BNP leaders and Muhammad Yunus are ‘natural allies’ Muhammad Yunus and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party …

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Bangladesh alters history: New books to say ’Ziaur Rahman declared freedom’, not Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Live Mint

Bangladesh News: Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, has decided to revise the delta nation's history textbooks to replace 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the declarer of independence with Ziaur Rahman, the leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and former president. 'On March 26, 1971, Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh, and on March 27, he made another declaration of independence …

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2 weeks ago

BNP's big charge on Muhammad Yunus: 'Interim govt in Bangladesh deliberately delaying election process'

India TV News

Slamming the Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus' suggestion to set the minimum voting age at 17, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that it would put pressure on the Election Commission and could also delay the election process. During a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that lowering the voting …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Dhaka 2.0: Sheikh Hasina fading history, city finds hope in new uncertainty

India Today

As vehicles—cars, motorbikes and hoards of compressed natural gas-driven autorickshaws, colloquially known as ‘CNGs’—speed out of Dhaka International Airport, murals of the liberation war, meant to decorate the roads and remind one of the bloody but valiant birth of Bangladesh as a sovereign nation, welcome people. Many now feel Mujibur Rahman was not the sole hero of the liberation war, …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Opinion - India is losing Bangladesh to China and Pakistan, and it could get worse

India Today

It is hard to be optimistic about the future of India-Bangladesh relations. India now harbours former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who the new leader of Bangladesh, Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, says must be extradited to Dhaka. The problem, from Yunus’ perspective, is that New Delhi perceives “everybody is Islamist.and will make this country into Afghanistan.” India should also worry about …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Bangladesh Court acquits key accused in 2004 10-truck arms haul case meant for ULFA to destabilise Assam

India TV News

A Bangladeshi High Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Barua to life imprisonment and acquitted a former junior minister and five others in a 2004 case of attempted smuggling of weapons to the separatist outfit in northeast India. The High Court bench comprising Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam and Justice Nasrin Akhtar acquitted former state minister …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Brokerages see uncertain 2025 on worries over potential Trump tariffs

Live Mint

Dec 17 - Uncertainties around U.S. policies may slow global economic growth modestly in 2025, according to major brokerages. They expect U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs to fuel volatility across global markets, spurring inflationary pressures and, in turn, limiting the scope for major central banks to ease monetary policy. World economies and equity markets have had a robust year, …

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India just ally in 1971 War, nothing more: Naya Bangladesh leaders on Modi post

India Today

Several leaders of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh on Monday reacted sharply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message on Vijay Diwas, saying that the victory of 1971 belonged to Bangladesh, and India was merely an ally in the struggle. PM Modi's message on Vijay Diwas also attracted harsh reaction from Hasnat Abdullah, an important coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Time for Bangladesh to smell the coffee: India is indispensable

Firstpost

India has, for its part, followed a calibrated approach of sending out a clear message to Bangladesh to be mindful of India’s security interests and protect the lives and welfare of its Hindu and other minorities The diplomatic language indicates that Misri during his Dhaka did not hold back his punches in outlining India’s concerns about the violence against minorities …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

The worrying direction Bangladesh is taking and that talk of US deep state and Pakistan

New Indian Express

Is the Bangladesh National Party having second thoughts about the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus? Tarique's return had earlier almost been a given after a Bangladesh High Court acquitted him in the grenade attack case that targeted former premier Sheikh Hasina at an Awami League rally in Dhaka in August 2004. On both sides of the political …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

‘Our lives don’t matter’: Bangladeshi Hindus under attack after Hasina exit

Al Jazeera

Bangladeshi Hindus – seen as allies of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina – face mounting threats, amid anti-India sentiments. Abhro Shome Pias, a 27-year-old Hindu student who studies at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka’s premier engineering college, said there had been “countless incidents of violence and persecution of Hindus”. “However, the majority of Bangladeshi Hindus do not support the …

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1 month ago

Video: Bangladeshi politician's boycott India call, burns Jaipur-made bedsheet

India Today

A senior leader of Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the BNP, publicly burned an India-made bedsheet in a symbolic protest amid escalating tensions between the two neighbouring nations. Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party’s senior joint secretary general, set the bedsheet, purportedly manufactured in Rajasthan's Jaipur, on fire during a ‘Boycott Indian Products’ programme in the city of Rajshahi on Tuesday. …

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1 month ago

Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party march in protest at attacks in India

Associated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thousands of members of three youth and student bodies belonging to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party marched toward the Indian High Commission in the country’s capital on Sunday to denounce attacks on a diplomatic mission and alleged desecration of Bangladeshi flags in India. It will be the first high-profile diplomatic visit by an Indian official since the fall …

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1 month ago

Yunus mulls to form govt without Hasina's Awami League amid pressure to call elections in Bangladesh: Report

Firstpost

Amid growing pressures to call elections in Bangladesh, reports are emerging that the country’s interim chief adviser, Muhammad Yunus, is contemplating forming a national govt comprising several political parties, except Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League Bangladesh’s Interim Advisor Muhammad Yunus is reportedly contemplating forming a government without the presence of leaders from ex-PM Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League. According to a report …

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1 month ago

'Bangladesh in chaos...Yunus a greedy man': What exiled Sheikh Hasina said in her first public speech | Full text

Firstpost

Hasina addressed an event in New York virtually where she accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of being “greedy” and said the administration is involved in “genocide” Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina made her very first public address since her ouster in August earlier this week when she condemned the attacks against minorities in the past couple of weeks. …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Bangladesh: Is Yunus facilitating the rise of an Islamist Republic?

India Today

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government, has begun a series of consultations with political parties over the next couple of days to finalise a future roadmap for the beleaguered nation. So, Yunus is doing what Bangladesh’s two military rulers, Generals Ziaur Rahman and Hussein Muhammed Ershad, did in the 1980s following the ouster of the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

How Attempts to Paint Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a Fascist Could Impact Bangladesh’s Secular Identity

The Hindu

Published : Dec 02, 2024 17:04 IST - 8 MINS READ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has remained a popular and revered leader through much of Bangladesh’s history. In fact, the attempt to marginalise Mujibur’s role and describe him and the Awami League party as “fascist” has also been undertaken by key members of the new administration in Bangladesh, raising serious concerns …

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1 month, 1 week ago

What Tarique Rahman's 'return' from political exile could mean for Bangladesh

India Today

Tarique Rahman, son of Bangladesh leader Begum Khaleda Zia and acting chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, appears set to end his 16-year-long political exile in London and return to his homeland, currently going through a turbulent period that has witnessed a mass protest-induced regime change in August. Speculation about his return is rife after the December 1 ruling of …

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1 month, 1 week ago

K.C. Singh | Ties with Dhaka: Domestic politics & diplomacy clash

Deccan Chronicle

Since Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee her country and seek refuge in India on August 5, after escalating student-led protests, India-Bangladesh relations have frayed. Immediately after Sheikh Hasina’s self-exile in India, her party Awami League’s senior members and cadres were attacked and arrested, with nearly 1,000 dying. But in recent years, as Bangladesh’s economic miracle faltered …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Bangladeshi claiming to be ex-BNP leader arrested in Kolkata with fake documents

Hindustan Times

A Bangladeshi National, who claimed to be a former leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was arrested with fake identity cards by the Kolkata Police from a guest house in central Kolkata on Friday night. “During preliminary questioning he claimed that he was a local leader of the BNP from Bangladesh’s Madaripur area and had fled to India from Bangladesh around …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Bangla national, former BNP leader arrested from Kolkata with fake docus

New Indian Express

KOLKATA: A former Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader was arrested in Kolkata for allegedly living in the city using forged identity documents for the past two years. Following a tip-off, a team from Park Street police station raided a hotel in Marquis Street on Friday night and nabbed the man who identified himself as Rabi Sharma, officials said. Salim claimed that …

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1 month, 1 week ago

How Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has failed Bangladesh

Firstpost

The ‘new Bangladesh’ that Yunus and his other advisers have repeatedly spoken about has turned out to be grossly intolerant political machinery, a stark reminder of the days under the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government when minorities and political opponents were persecuted and the criminals went scot-free Yunus remains indebted to the students for his newfound political relevance and has made …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: China's outreach to Bangladesh Islamists alarms India amid anti-Hindu wave

India Today

Chinmoy Krishna Prabhu, a prominent monk leading protests against alleged atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh, was arrested by Dhaka police on Monday, November 25. Indian outreach to the BNP and other Islamist parties, who have emerged as powerful players in the Bangladesh political scene after the ouster of the Awami League government headed by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The United States and the Democracy Question in South Asia

The Diplomat

Ideologically, the United States is a self-proclaimed promoter and protector of democracy in the world. Soon after the Cold War, U.S. President George H. W. Bush proposed a “New World Order” based on “freedom, peace and democracy.” His successor, President Bill Clinton, said at the United Nations on September 27, 1993, that the “overriding purpose” of U.S. foreign policy was …

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Bangladesh: How Muhammad Yunus is ensuring revival of the Islamist BNP in politics

Bangladesh alters history: New books to say ’Ziaur Rahman declared freedom’, not Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

BNP's big charge on Muhammad Yunus: 'Interim govt in Bangladesh deliberately delaying election process'

Dhaka 2.0: Sheikh Hasina fading history, city finds hope in new uncertainty

Opinion - India is losing Bangladesh to China and Pakistan, and it could get worse

Bangladesh Court acquits key accused in 2004 10-truck arms haul case meant for ULFA to destabilise Assam

Brokerages see uncertain 2025 on worries over potential Trump tariffs

India just ally in 1971 War, nothing more: Naya Bangladesh leaders on Modi post

Time for Bangladesh to smell the coffee: India is indispensable

The worrying direction Bangladesh is taking and that talk of US deep state and Pakistan

‘Our lives don’t matter’: Bangladeshi Hindus under attack after Hasina exit

Video: Bangladeshi politician's boycott India call, burns Jaipur-made bedsheet

Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party march in protest at attacks in India

Yunus mulls to form govt without Hasina's Awami League amid pressure to call elections in Bangladesh: Report

'Bangladesh in chaos...Yunus a greedy man': What exiled Sheikh Hasina said in her first public speech | Full text

Bangladesh: Is Yunus facilitating the rise of an Islamist Republic?

How Attempts to Paint Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a Fascist Could Impact Bangladesh’s Secular Identity

What Tarique Rahman's 'return' from political exile could mean for Bangladesh

K.C. Singh | Ties with Dhaka: Domestic politics & diplomacy clash

Bangladeshi claiming to be ex-BNP leader arrested in Kolkata with fake documents

Bangla national, former BNP leader arrested from Kolkata with fake docus

How Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has failed Bangladesh

Opinion: China's outreach to Bangladesh Islamists alarms India amid anti-Hindu wave

The United States and the Democracy Question in South Asia