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Student-advisers in interim government of Bangladesh gaining higher profile
1 day, 22 hours ago

Student-advisers in interim government of Bangladesh gaining higher profile

The Hindu  

India’s “strong protest” in response to the now deleted Facebook post carrying an enlarged map of Bangladesh that included neighbouring Indian territories, has drawn attention to the student-advisers of the interim government of Bangladesh. At a Clinton Global Initiative event in New York, Prof. Yunus introduced Mr. Alam saying, “He is known to be the brain behind the whole revolution.” …

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Should India worry? Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus seeks to 'settle issues of 1971' in meeting with Pakistan PM
3 days, 14 hours ago

Should India worry? Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus seeks to 'settle issues of 1971' in meeting with Pakistan PM

India TV News  

On Thursday, Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus said that he agreed to strengthen relations with Pakistan. In a statement, Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif said that he had a warm and cordial exchange with the Bangladeshi leader. Moreover, on the occasion of its 54th Victory Day, Yunus in his speech made no mention of founding leader Mujibur Rahman while calling deposed …

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Dhaka 2.0: Sheikh Hasina fading history, city finds hope in new uncertainty
3 days, 14 hours 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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Parliament's standards commissioner is urged to probe Keir Starmer's corruption minister Tulip Siddiq - over claims she and her family took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear power plant
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3 days, 17 hours ago

Parliament's standards commissioner is urged to probe Keir Starmer's corruption minister Tulip Siddiq - over claims she and her family took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear power plant

Daily Mail  

Parliament's standards commissioner was last night urged to probe Tulip Siddiq after the Treasury minister was named in an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh. ‘Without proper clarification and transparency from Ms Siddiq, I feel that she risks bringing her position, and the wider House, into significant disrepute.’ Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission has launched the probe into Ms Siddiq over the alleged embezzlement …

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Keir Starmer backs anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq amid probe into her family over claims they took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear power plant in Bangladesh
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4 days ago

Keir Starmer backs anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq amid probe into her family over claims they took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear power plant in Bangladesh

Daily Mail  

Sir Keir Starmer has backed his most senior anti-corruption minister, after it was revealed she is being investigated over claims she and members of her family took bribes of up to £4 billion. City minister Tulip Siddiq – who is responsible for stamping out corruption in Britain's financial sector – is being investigated for the alleged embezzlement linked to a …

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Keir Starmer's corruption minister and her family are probed over claims they took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear power plant
4 days, 16 hours ago

Keir Starmer's corruption minister and her family are probed over claims they took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear power plant

Daily Mail  

A Labour minister is being investigated over claims she and members of her family took bribes of up to £4 billion. City minister Tulip Siddiq – who is responsible for stamping out corruption in Britain’s financial sector – is being investigated for the alleged embezzlement linked to a nuclear power plant deal in her native Bangladesh. The senior Labour minister …

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Why Mujib’s removal from the Taka is noteworthy
5 days, 9 hours ago

Why Mujib’s removal from the Taka is noteworthy

Firstpost  

It is safer for Muhammed Yunus to spend a few thousand crores printing new notes rather than annoying his ‘student’ backers The US still has not said that the “face” of the next new $20 bill will change, almost a decade after pressure started building about removing President Andrew Jackson because he was allegedly racist. Be that as it may, …

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Ousted PM Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearance: Bangladesh commission
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1 week, 1 day ago

Ousted PM Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearance: Bangladesh commission

New Indian Express  

DHAKA: An inquiry commission set up by the interim government in Bangladesh has said that it found evidence implicating deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and top-ranking military and police officials from her regime in alleged incidents of enforced disappearance. The five-member Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances submitted an interim report titled "Unfolding The Truth" to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad …

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Bangladesh commission says Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearances
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1 week, 1 day ago

Bangladesh commission says Sheikh Hasina involved in enforced disappearances

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: An inquiry commission in Bangladesh said on Saturday that former premier Sheikh Hasina and some officials of security forces and her government were involved in enforced disappearances. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina checks her watch as she waits for the official opening time to cast her vote in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 7 The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced …

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Time for Bangladesh to smell the coffee: India is indispensable
1 week, 3 days 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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DC Edit | Dhaka needs to act swiftly, firmly to restore normalcy
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1 week, 5 days ago

DC Edit | Dhaka needs to act swiftly, firmly to restore normalcy

Deccan Chronicle  

India has had its say on the situation in Bangladesh where the safety of minorities has been under a grave threat. It was on the cards that Bangladesh would come up with the response that India’s premises were based on “misleading and false information” and that whatever is happening in the country since the fall of Sheikh Hasina Wazed’s government …

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AP photos from Asia in 2024 show changes in government, natural disasters and moments of joy
1 week, 6 days ago

AP photos from Asia in 2024 show changes in government, natural disasters and moments of joy

Associated Press  

Dozens of Rohingya refugees stood huddled on the remains of a ship days after it capsized at sea, seeing the Indonesian coast guard vessel that was approaching for a miraculous rescue. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Pope Francis arrives at the Holy Trinity Humanistic School in Baro, near Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, …

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Minorities, Sheikh Hasina...: Takeaways from Indian foreign secretary's Dhaka visit
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1 week, 6 days ago

Minorities, Sheikh Hasina...: Takeaways from Indian foreign secretary's Dhaka visit

India Today  

India’s foreign secretary Vikram Misri and his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Jashim Uddin have both acknowledged that the clouds lately shrouding the bilateral relationship need to be dispelled. Misri, who was in Dhaka on December 9 and also met the Bangladesh interim government’s chief advisor Muhammad Yunus, is learnt to have conveyed New Delhi’s concerns over the security of Hindus and …

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Sheikh Hasina is the legal PM: Suvendu Adhikari slams Yunus-led Bangladesh regime
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1 week, 6 days ago

Sheikh Hasina is the legal PM: Suvendu Adhikari slams Yunus-led Bangladesh regime

India Today  

Leader of Opposition in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, launched a scathing attack on the caretaker government in Bangladesh, calling it "illegal" and accusing it of unlawfully removing Sheikh Hasina, the country's democratically elected Prime Minister. When Hasina lands at Dhaka Airport, she will be welcomed as the Prime Minister and receive a ceremonial salute,” Adhikari declared, urging international intervention to …

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From the India Today archives (2017) | When Pranab Mukherjee thought he could be PM
2 weeks ago

From the India Today archives (2017) | When Pranab Mukherjee thought he could be PM

India Today  

Excerpts from Pranab Mukherjee’s autobiographical account of the coalition era, The Coalition Years: 1996-2012. KESRI’S ‘MERE PAAS WAQT NAHIN HAI’ Kesri’s tenure as treasurer was sixteen years long and he became a butt of a few jokes within the AICC, with one being about his accounting procedures: ‘Na khaata, na bahi, jo Kesriji kahen wahi sahi.’ As Congress president, Sitaram …

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Why Bangladesh pulled plug on key internet deal with India
2 weeks ago

Why Bangladesh pulled plug on key internet deal with India

Firstpost  

Bangladesh’s internet regulator has terminated a proposal made under the previous Sheikh Hasina regime to let the country become the transit point to supply internet to India’s Northeast. According to a report in the Daily Star, Bangladesh’s internet regulator has terminated a deal to let the country become the transit point for India’s northeastern states’ internet supply. According to India …

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Sheikh Hasina slams Yunus-led government as 'fascist'; calls him 'mastermind' behind protests
2 weeks ago

Sheikh Hasina slams Yunus-led government as 'fascist'; calls him 'mastermind' behind protests

New Indian Express  

DHAKA: Bangladesh's deposed premier Sheikh Hasina has launched a fierce attack on the interim administration, accusing its Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus of running a "fascist regime" that allows terrorists and fundamentalists to act without restraint. In a virtual address to a gathering of overseas Awami League supporters in London on Sunday, Hasina accused Yunus of being the "mastermind"” behind the …

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Bangladesh: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri in Dhaka for 1st high-level meet since Sheikh Hasina's ouster
2 weeks ago

Bangladesh: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri in Dhaka for 1st high-level meet since Sheikh Hasina's ouster

India Today  

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday held talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Mohammad Jashim Uddin, marking the first high-level trip from India after Sheikh Hasina's ouster from power in August following massive violent protests. The high-level visit also came at a time of increasing strain in ties between New Delhi and Dhaka over attacks on minorities, including Hindus, in Bangladesh …

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Syria greets new dawn as Bashar al-Assad flees amid rebel uprising: List of leaders who fled their countries
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Syria greets new dawn as Bashar al-Assad flees amid rebel uprising: List of leaders who fled their countries

Live Mint  

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left for an unknown destination, as reported by Reuters citing officials. Dhaka: In this Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 file photo, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves the country in a helicopter as protesters storm the prime minister's palace, according to reports, in Dhaka. Rajapaksa President Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Fled Sri Lanka in July …

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Fact Check: Sheikh Hasina Has Not Converted To Hinduism In India, Viral Image Is Edited
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Fact Check: Sheikh Hasina Has Not Converted To Hinduism In India, Viral Image Is Edited

ABP News  

The Verdict The image is altered; the original, from September 2022, shows a priest applying a tilak on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Kerala’s Sivagiri Mutt. His teachings will always inspire the humankind.#BharatJodoYatra 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/3XbPyGobs0 — Congress September 14, 2022 Several news outlets, including The Times of India, reported that Gandhi visited Sivagiri Mutt on September 14, 2022, to pay …

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Is Muhammad Yunus preparing Bangladesh for crisis or elections?
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Is Muhammad Yunus preparing Bangladesh for crisis or elections?

Firstpost  

Muhammad Yunus, the 84-year-old Nobel laureate, took the reins of Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina fled to India in August. However, Yunus’ government continues to delay elections in the name of reforms without giving any firm timeline, take consequential foreign policy decisions such as drawing closer to Pakistan and alienating India — all as the economy crumbles Is Muhammad Yunus preparing …

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'Bangladesh in chaos...Yunus a greedy man': What exiled Sheikh Hasina said in her first public speech | Full text
2 weeks, 3 days 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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Bangladesh’s Yunus flags ‘glaring gaps’ in minority attack reports, accuses ‘foreign media’ of false propaganda
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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Bangladesh’s Yunus flags ‘glaring gaps’ in minority attack reports, accuses ‘foreign media’ of false propaganda

Live Mint  

Bangladesh News: In a recent address, Bangladesh's interim government leader, Muhammad Yunus, dismissed claims of widespread atrocities against minorities in the country, particularly the Hindu community. Yunus Challenges Media Reports on Minority Persecution Yunus acknowledged that recent reports of renewed attacks, torture on minorities, particularly the Hindu community, had been circulating both locally and internationally. However, Muhammad Yunus and his …

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With currency notes, how Bangladesh is erasing Mujibur Rahman's legacy
2 weeks, 3 days ago

With currency notes, how Bangladesh is erasing Mujibur Rahman's legacy

Firstpost  

Bangladesh’s interim government has begun the process of removing the image of Mujibur Rahman, the country’s founding father, on its currency notes. In its latest move, the interim government of Bangladesh, headed by Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, is set to remove Mujibur Rahman, father of Sheikh Hasina and the iconic figure behind the founding of the country, from its currency …

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