After former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country on Monday, Taslima Nasreen pointed out the ironic but similar conditions the exiled author was subjected to in 1999 in a post on social media.Nasreen said that Hasina expelled her from Bangladesh in 1999 to please Islamists when she returned to see her dying mother…
Sheikh Hasina‘s flight on Monday left India’s neighbour oscillating between hope and apprehension, the unbridled joy and relief experienced by the millions who hit the streets contrasting with the uncertainty about the new future expressed by those who chose to stay away from the anti-govt protests.Filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon was part of the Long March…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence establishment sees the hand of Pakistan‘s external intelligence agency, ISI and its Chinese patron in escalating the protests and subversion that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country.Information reaching here point to the not-so-subtle hand of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of hardline Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh which is known for its…
NEW DELHI: Sheikh Hasina, who landed at Hindon airbase near Ghaziabad hours after fleeing Dhaka, is not sure about her next destination and may stay here for a few days.Sources said Hasina, the longest-tenured female head of government in the world, has got relatives in London, the US as well as Singapore, but has not…
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,…
The hurried and rather unceremonious departure of Sheikh Hasina from Bangladesh hasn’t just wrong-footed the Indian government but also left it faced with possibly the biggest foreign policy challenge in the neighbourhood in recent times, one which might make the storm in ties with the Maldives this year look like a walk in the park….
NEW DELHI: Just when India was poised to take its traditionally good defence-military ties with Bangladesh on a sharp upward trajectory in a bid to stem China’s major strategic inroads into the country, the fleeing of Sheikh Hasina from her country on Monday has injected an air of uncertainty into the entire equation. Bangladesh Army…
In a region fraught with internecine neighbours, Sheikh Hasina was one of New Delhi’s closest allies. However, chaos has now descended in Bangladesh as Sheikh Hasina and her family have fled the country. Her son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, stated that his mother wouldn’t return to active politics. Hasina is currently staying in India, with various…
Sheikh Hasina’s resignation as PM and departure from Bangladesh creates a plethora of uncertainties for India. Over one-and-a-half decade, she was New Delhi’s staunchest ally. India-Bangladesh ties during this period reached unprecedented levels. From cross-border trade and transit arrangements to security cooperation and people-to-people exchanges, bilateral relations experienced a golden period.But Hasina’s ouster puts all…
Bangladesh was thrown into turmoil on Monday as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down from her position and left the nation. Her resignation followed a brutal suppression of protests that had escalated from demonstrations against employment quotas into a full-scale movement calling for her removal from power. The crackdown resulted in the deaths of hundreds…
