There was a cinematic pendulum shift at Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit in Bangkok where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus attended an official dinner reception by Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.

In a recent incident, 39 individuals have lost their lives and more than 2,500 have been injured in Bangladesh due to violence amidst student protests demanding reform of the quota system for government employment.  The protest took a darker turn on Thursday when protesting students set fire to the nation’s state broadcaster, following Prime Minister […]

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quits and fled to India on Monday after a violent crackdown on protests. What initially started as protests over the job quota system, later turned into a violent one for its removal, resulting in the deaths of hundred of Bangladeshi people.  The crowds rushed into the presidential residence without any […]

Thousands of protesters from Bangladesh defied the curfew and stormed the Prime Minister’s palace in Dhaka, following the reports that PM Sheikh Hasina had resigned and fled the nation. The streets in Dhaka were full of jubilant crowds, but tensions increased when hundreds of people broke through the gates of Sheikh Hasina’s official residence. Amid […]

After 15 years of rule and then the recent resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus is going to lead the country’s transitional Government. Sheikh Hasina has already fled the violent nation. Press Secretary for Bangladesh President Joynal Abedin made the announcement in this regard.  Declaring that Hasina’s actions […]

When regimes collapse, everything is flung open. Protestors are out breaking the law and order. The current situation of Bangladesh somewhat resembles the situation of Sri Lanka, where students and people were out on roads to protest against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022.  But the situation of Bangladesh, after PM Hasina’s resignation has only worsened. Soon […]

Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh alleged that the United States had a role to play for her ouster from the office. She claimed that she and her administration could have remained in power if she had surrendered the country’s sovereignty over the Saint Martin Island to the hands of the United States.  […]