Former PM Sheikh Hasina has alleged that interim govt chief Muhammad Yunus has turned peaceful Bangladesh into a country of militants and terrorists, insisting that justice will be delivered as she remains optimistic about making a comeback.

The US and Bangladesh are at odds over a controversial $29 million USAID project that, according to a senior Bangladeshi official, never passed through the country’s regulatory channels.

Vowing to return to her homeland and ensure justice for the victims of the Yunus govt’s “atrocities”, deposed PM Sheikh Hasina, currently residing in India, accused chief adviser Muhammad Yunus of turning Bangladesh into a hub of terrorism and...

Reports of attacks on Hindu minorities since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina govt have raised international concern, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

A metropolitan court in Bangladesh denied bail to Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, arrested for sedition on Nov 25, after public prosecutor Mofizul Haque Bhuiyan argued that freeing him “could create anarchy”. “We saw in the past...

The interim government in Bangladesh said that it has sent a note verbale, or an unsigned diplomatic communique, to India formally seeking the extradition of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh arrested four people for vandalising and damaging houses, shops and the local Loknath temple of the Hindu community in the Doarabazar area of Sunamganj district earlier this month.

On Tuesday 10 December, as we went to press, Hindus in the UK gathered at Parliament Square with posters, banners and placards, shouting “we want justice” as they protested against the treatment of the community in Bangladesh, and demanding...