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Rohingya refugees watch the ICJ hearing at a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on January 23.

Justice for Rohingyas

In a significant ruling, the International Court of Justice orders Myanmar to protect the minority Rohingya population from human rights atrocities, p

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Police stop students trying take out a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Guwahati, India, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. India has implemented a controversial citizenship law that has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. The act provides a fast track to naturalization for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before Dec. 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Neighbour’s worries over CAA and NRC

There is a fear in Bangladesh that the NRC and the CAA may trigger an exodus of Bengali-speaking people from Assam and create a Rohingya-like crisis.

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Sheikh Hasina taking the oath as Prime Minister in Dhaka on January 7.

Daunting challenges

Sheikh Hasina returns to power with a landslide victory in the parliamentary election in Bangladesh, but the challenges before her are manifold.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Closure of sorts

The judgment in the August 2004 grenade attack case, in which 19 accused were sentenced to death and 19 to life imprisonment, reveals the dark side of

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Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar rest as they make their way after crossing the border in Palang Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh October 16, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

In search of a solution

Bangladesh calls for a “sustainable return” of the Rohingyan refugees and demands the effective involvement of the U.N. and the strategic collaboratio

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Bangladeshi activists who fought in the 1971 war celebrate after a review petition relating to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami's reprieve petition by The Supreme Court in Dhaka on May 5, 2016.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of top Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes, paving the way for his execution within days.Nizami, head of Bangladesh's biggest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, was convicted of murder, rape and orchestrating the killing of intellectuals during the country's 1971 independence struggle.
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Old wounds

Pakistan, which has never apologised for the crimes committed by its army personnel during the 1971 Bangladesh war, continues to oppose the trials tha

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Bangladeshi women place a floral wreath during a protest against the killing of blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, in Dhaka on August 9, 2015. Dhaka vowed to hunt down the killers of secular blogger Niloy Chakrabarti who became the fourth such writer to be murdered in Bangladesh by suspected Islamist militants this year. AFP PHOTO/ Munir uz ZAMAN

Endangered bloggers

Niladri Chatterjee Niloy becomes the fourth online activist to be targeted this year by religious extremists.

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TOPSHOTSIn this photograph taken on January 5, 2014, a Bangladeshi resident (L) wanting to vote is attacked by protestors in a field in Rajshahi, some 260 kms from Dhaka. Protestors firebombed polling stations and attacked police as Bangladesh went ahead with a violence-plagued election boycotted by the opposition. With the fear of attacks expected to limit turnout and around 150 people killed in the build-up to the vote, tens of thousands of troops were deployed across the country. AFP PHOTO/STR

Election amid anarchy

The ruling Awami League wins an election marred by boycott and violence. But the only solution to a looming political crisis is another round of elect

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A demonstrator shouts slogans during an opposition rally in Dhaka on June 12, 2013. Bangladesh's main opposition on June 12 demanded elections under a caretaker government as it held its first rally after the government last month imposed a ban on all political gatherings for a month. AFP PHOTO/STR

Warning vote

The ruling Awami League would do well to analyse the drubbing it received in the recent corporation elections and take corrective steps if it wants to

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Bangladeshi ruling party supporters and others gather during a protest against the Jamaat-e-Islami party in Dhaka, Bangladesh,Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. The protesters are demanding capital punishment to all convicted war criminals and a ban on Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-islami, for their roles in the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

Surge of hope

A mass uprising in Dhaka sees the young generation swearing by a democratic society where religion is a private pursuit.

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Before retreating from Brahamanbaria in Bangladesh, the Pakistani troops called about forty important leaders to a important meeting, seized them, tied their hands behind their back and marched them to a nearby canal where they were shot dead. Photo shows some of the bodies.

Healing the wounds

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh gives its first verdict in the crimes against humanity committed during the war of liberation in 1971.

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Challenges in the east

The growth of fundamentalism in Bangladesh, with covert blessings from the ruling dispensation, inevitably has ripple effects in West Bengal and the r

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