Around 300-500 Indian medical students in Bangladesh’s Dhaka are in a dilemma whether to flee or stay back and cater to the wounded at the hospitals. “The college authorities have shut the gates and we are safe inside. The sounds of gunshots used to pierce the air, creating a sense of immediate danger and fear…
NEW DELHI: A special Air India flight successfully evacuated 205 individuals, including six infants, from Dhaka to New Delhi on Wednesday amid ongoing political unrest in Bangladesh.According to the officials, the chartered flight departed New Delhi for Dhaka on Tuesday on short notice despite infrastructure challenges.Meanwhile Air India, Vistara, and IndiGo resume their scheduled flights…
KOLKATA: With the 15-year-old govt now ousted, there was a rush among Bangladeshis on Tuesday – several of them cooped up in Marquis Street for weeks – to return home and be a part of the unfolding history in the country’s 53 years of existence. For the lucky 314-odd Bangladeshis, who were the first to…
DHAKA: Bangladesh‘s embattled PM Sheikh Hasina (76) on Monday resigned and fled the country following more than a month of deadly demonstrations that began as protests against job quotas swelled into a movement precipitating the end of her 15-year rule.A source close to her told AFP her security team, gauging the mood on the ground,…
Bangladesh army chief, General Waker-Us-Zaman, announced the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country on Monday and said an interim government will be formed to run the country. The 58-year-old Zaman has been in his position as army chief for only a month.Bangladesh protests live updates Bangladesh has been engulfed in protests…
Violence marred Bangladesh after days of peace as anti-government protestors on Sunday again hit the streets demanding PM Sheikh Hasina’s resignation.Demonstrators resumed their protest in huge numbers as part of their non-cooperation plan aimed at unsettling the government.Vast crowds of protesters, many wielding sticks, packed into Dhaka‘s central Shahbagh Square on Sunday, with street battles…
Bangladesh telecommunications minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak said that country’s mobile internet will be restored later on Sunday, more than a week after a nationwide blackout imposed to contain deadly unrest.Palak told reporters the network would be restored at 3:00 pm (0900 GMT), following the restoration of fixed line broadband connections on Tuesday.Meanwhile, a student organization…
