The investigation team also requested their personal documents from the EC, and Immigration and Passport Office
The foreign ministry has sent a diplomatic note to the Indian government, saying that Dhaka wants ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina sent back.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to launch an investigation against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on allegations of laundering $300 million to the United States.
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her defence adviser Maj Gen (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former director general of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre Maj Gen Ziaul Ahsan, and senior police officers Monirul Islam and Md Harun-Or-Rashid were all involved in enforced disappearances.
The anti-money laundering agency also seeks banks details of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust
Sarjis Alam, general secretary of the July Shaheed Smriti Foundation, yesterday accused former prime minister Sheikh Hasina of being a ‘pathological killer’.
Supreme Court lawyer ZI Khan Panna has expressed his willingness to defend ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the International Crimes Tribunal over genocide charges linked to the mass uprising.
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Expressing dissatisfaction over former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s frequent political statements from India, Dhaka has requested New Delhi to intervene and stop her.
Bangladesh Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh has successfully set an example of holding free, fair and impartial polls through yesterday's general election
She is speaking on the day after the 12th parliamentary polls, in which her party Awami League secured 223 out of 298 seats.
She bagged 2,49,965 votes in her constituency while her nearest rival M Nizam Uddin Lascar from Bangladesh Supreme Party secured 469 votes
Despite decades of sustained GDP growth and improvements in social indicators, Bangladesh’s economy is now on a fragile footing.
Since voters are reluctant to take part in this election, the ruling party has resorted to such measures.
An election without any competition will not be acceptable at home or abroad.
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In a recent cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been assigned with the additional role of overseeing the Ministry of Science and Technology, while Zunaid Ahmed Palak, the State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT), has been assigned with the additional responsibilities of the Posts and Telecommunications Department, following the departure of the two technocrat ministers from these ministries.
Connection to railway grid will boost local economy, tourism.
A number of controversial decisions, actions and statements of the EC itself has put it in this situation.
