Women cruise to a historic high in Bangladesh elections

Bangladesh elections results have put Sheikh Hasina led Awami league in the power and also elected a large number of women in National Parliament. A record number of candidates were trying their luck in the...

Sheikh Hasina wins majority in Bangladesh elections

The former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party won the ninth Bangladesh parliamentary election, the country’s election commission announced Tuesday. The primary results of 229 constituencies...

Polls open in Bangladesh elections, Security tightened

Bangladesh's long-awaited 9th parliamentary elections have begun on Monday after two years of delay. Polls across the country opened at 0800 (0200 GMT) and close at 1600 (1000 GMT). Fifty-thousand troops have...

Bangladeshi elections: ex-premier returns home

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister and chief of Awami League  Sheikh Hasina Wajed has returned home from the US.  Her return is due to the coming parliamentary elections on December 18,...

Bangladesh's Zia released from jail

The leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, was released on bail by the army-backed interim government. Zia was arrested last year on corruption charges....

Bangladeshi-Begums

One of Bangladesh's two “battling begums” went on trial for extortion recently, as part of the emergency Government's plan to break their-stranglehold on politics. "Sheikh Hasina Wajed, a former Prime Minister, has been in detention since July, accused with her sister and...

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