President Ziaur Rahman's assassination led to a political upheaval in Bangladesh, shaping the rise of Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina.

DHAKA, Jan 26, 2025 (BSS) - BNP leaders at a memorial meeting today said Zia family was subjected to brutal torture during the previous Awami League government as deposed Sheikh Hasina did not even allow former premier Begum Khaleda Zia, her sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman to get their basic rights to treatment when they were sick.

Shariful Islam Shehzad - the illegal migrant from Bangladesh accused of stabbing Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan last week in a home invasion - is a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, his father,

A court in Bangladesh acquitted BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia on Wednesday in a sabotage case filed in the southeastern Cumilla district 10 years ago.Additional District and Se

Alam, who played a key role in the uprising that toppled Hasina’s government and led to her exile on 5 August last year, added that only Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, and other “pro-Bangladesh” groups would continue their political activities in the country.

The Awami League has been virtually out of the open political landscape since August 5, 2024, with most of its leaders and Hasina’s cabinet members either in jail on murder and other criminal charges or on the run at home and abroad.

When the army intervened in Bangladesh in 2007, its new rulers locked up both Sheikh Hasina and her archival, Khaleda Zia, hoping to reset the political system. Is Bangladesh about to revive its "minus two" policy?

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party on Wednesday announced a series of programmes in February t

Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League will be barred from participating in elections, according to a key adviser from Muham

This is the second meeting between Soros and Yunus in three months after the duo met in New York last year in October - weeks after the Nobel laureate took charge following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime.

Muhammad Yunus, friend and financial associate of Hillary Clinton and one of the top donors of Clinton Foundation who has been heading an illegitimate regime since August 7, 2024 in Bangladesh under direct backing of Bangladesh Army – particularly Chief of Army Staff General Waker Uz Zaman – which comprises and empowers Islamists,

Earlier Bangladesh's interim government led by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus was seeking to renegotiate the 2017 deal with Adani and alleged that Adani withheld tax benefits.