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Sheikh Hasina

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Britain asked to investigate assets linked to ousted Bangladeshi regime

    Dhaka central bank probes whether allies of autocrat Sheikh Hasina diverted upwards of £13bn overseas

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  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
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    India accuses Bangladesh’s interim leaders of failing to protect Hindus

    Rising tensions complicate attempts to mend a vital partnership after Sheikh Hasina was toppled

    Protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    Global fashion brands cut Bangladesh orders after turmoil

    Producers in world’s second-largest garment exporter say customers are concerned about violence and disruption

    A worker at Apex Footwear in Dhaka
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    ‘Dhaka has turned into Gotham’: On patrol with Bangladesh’s vigilantes

    Neighbourhood groups try to impose order after collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s regime leaves security vacuum

    Syed Bipro stands with a cricket bat resting on his shoulder
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Muhammad Yunus
    Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for free speech and independent judiciary

    Interim government leader and Nobel laureate says Sheikh Hasina left behind ‘complete mess’

    Yunus sits surrounded by the family and officials
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Alec Russell
    How autocracies endure — and end

    Strongmen rulers are not immune to a wave of incumbency fatigue spreading across the world

    Illustration of a military helicopter with the blades and rear rota drawn as a red X from a ballot paper
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    Students take charge of Bangladesh megacity after ousting Sheikh Hasina

    Protesters who toppled the long-ruling prime minister now control the streets of Dhaka, but challenges loom

    Young people wave and cheer in front of a fire at the PM’s official residence
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Yunus warns against Bangladesh anarchy

    Nobel Peace Prize winner sworn in as head of interim government leader after appeal for end to violence

    Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus arriving at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    India’s Bangladesh bet backfires after Sheikh Hasina ousted

    Toppling of long-governing prime minister is a major setback for New Delhi

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in June 2024
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus calls for new elections after political turmoil

    Nobel laureate agrees to lead interim government after protests toppled autocrat Sheikh Hasina

    Protesters celebrate Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in Dhaka on Monday
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to head interim government in Bangladesh

    Appointment announced after dissolution of parliament opens way for creation of interim cabinet

    Bangladesh Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka in January
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Bangladesh’s power vacuum

    A swift transition to a democratically elected government is vital

    Protesters try to demolish a large statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned as Prime Minister, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    How the world’s longest-serving female leader was toppled

    Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule over Bangladesh met a sudden end. Now protesters worry about what’s next

    Protesters overrun Sheikh Hasina’s grand residence in central Dhaka
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees country

    Army chief announces long-ruling leader’s departure after demonstrators storm her official residence

    Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Scores killed in Bangladesh as pressure mounts on Sheikh Hasina

    Army deployed to enforce ‘indefinite’ curfew after garment factories and government buildings set on fire

    A garment store on fire
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh top court scales back job quotas that sparked violent unrest

    Quota system had triggered deadly protests that resulted in clashes with security forces

    Armed soldiers in armoured vehicles patrol the streets
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Dozens killed in Bangladesh unrest as protests spread

    Anger over job quotas highlights deep economic distress in the world’s second-largest garment exporter

    Aerial view of smoke rising from burning vehicles near the Disaster Management Directorate office in Dhaka
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in power at Bangladesh election

    Crackdown on opposition and rights abuses have drawn criticism from US and EU

    Officials count ballot papers at a polling station in Dhaka after the end of the Bangladesh election on Sunday
  • Saturday, 6 January, 2024
    Person in the News
    Sheikh Hasina: the Bangladeshi premier determined to retain power

    Re-election appears certain but economic strains may test the population’s patience with her autocratic style

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Sheikh Hasina
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    News in-depthBangladesh
    Bangladesh election raises fears of descent into one-party rule

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hobbled political opposition but faces mounting economic turbulence

    Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waves the Bangladeshi flag at a campaign event on Wednesday
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladeshi court sentences Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to 6 months in prison

    Microfinance pioneer is a long and bitter rival of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

    Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus outside the court in Dhaka on Monday
  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    News in-depthBangladesh
    Bangladesh’s prime minister pins re-election push on mega-projects

    Sheikh Hasina presided over a garment sector boom but has crushed dissent as inequality rises

    Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina, left, inaugurates the country’s first metro rail service in Dhaka in December, 2022
  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh pushes back at US over visa curbs ahead of election

    Washington says restrictions are targeted at politicians and others found to be undermining democratic process

    Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    World Health Organization
    Push by Bangladesh PM’s daughter for WHO role raises transparency concerns

    Saima Wazed is one of only two nominees to lead UN health body in south-east Asia

    US president Joe Biden, Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her daughter Saima Wazed and first lady Jill Biden in New York on Tuesday
  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    FT Magazine
    In Dhaka, a prime minister’s ‘vendetta’ is shaping politics

    With an election looming, Sheikh Hasina’s criticism of Nobel winner Muhammad Yunus is intensifying

    Aerial view of the under construction Padma bridge
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