NEW DELHI: Sheikh Hasina, the long-time leader of Bangladesh, had not resigned as prime minister before fleeing to India last week amid large-scale anti-government protests, according to her son.Her son and adviser, Sajeeb Wazed, confirmed to Reuters that Hasina has been sheltering in New Delhi since Monday after an uprising resulted in the death of…
PETRAPOLE: Tapan Kumar Das and his mother, who had arrived in Kolkata on Aug 4 for his medical treatment, had been spending sleepless nights, fearing their house back in Bangladesh might have been vandalised or looted since they left.On Friday, as the mother and son were walking across the Petrapole border In Bengal, Tapan stopped…
NEW DELHI: Large groups of people have gathered at the India-Bangladesh border amid the ongoing political crisis in the country. Over the past few days, the BSF has foiled several attempts by large groups to sneak into India.Visuals captured from the Indian side at Pathantuli in Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, show a massive crowd…
NEW DELHI: UK foreign secretary David Lammy dialled his counterpart S Jaishankar on Thursday amid the suspense over where Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India from Dhaka on Monday, might be headed. Jaishankar said the two discussed the situation in Bangladesh and West Asia.MEA didn’t confirm if India discussed Hasina’s asylum with the UK or…
NEW DELHI: Just three days after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh in the wake of violent protests that claimed the lives of 300 people, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn-in as the head of the interim government on Thursday.Yunus, 84, was recommended for the role by student protesters and returned to Dhaka earlier…
The day Shaikh Haseena fled from Dhaka I was in Bangladesh. I saw sloganeering, jeering, rowdy crowds cheering the opposition and overall chaos that ensued. It all started on 17th July 2024. I went to teach on a sabbatical to the students of the Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh on 30th May 2024. Initially,…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar recently found himself at the receiving end of criticism from Bharatiya Janata party for comparing India’s situation with the violence-ridden Bangladesh.In an interview with new agency IANS, Aiyar stated that despite India’s economic growth, issues like unemployment and inequality have increased, leading to turmoil in Bangladesh.Aiyar pointed…
Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mughdo, a master’s student at Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), was captured on video running amidst the violence surrounding the quota reform movement just 15 minutes before he was tragically shot dead on July 18 in Uttara. Mughdo was distributing food, water, and biscuits to the protesters during the agitation when he…
New Delhi: India‘s garment industry could reap a 10-20% boost in export orders over the next 18 months following the political turmoil in Bangladesh, said executives and industry bodies. In value terms, India’s apparel exports could surge by $2-3 billion annually. Exports stood at $14.5 billion last fiscal. The domestic textile industry is in a…
ATTARI: Two extended Pakistani Hindu families entered India through the Attari border near Amritsar on Wednesday with all their belongings and travelled onward to Jodhpur and settle there, coinciding with the flight of minorities from Bangladesh in the face of a backlash accompanying the fall of the govt there.A Jodhpur resident identifying himself as Ashok…
