Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina full name Sheikh Hasina Wazed is a Bengali female politician and leader of Awami League political party. She has been thrice elected as the prime minister of the state. Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman mastermind of Bangladesh separation from Pakistan in 1971.

Sheikh Hasina Political career is full of struggles and challenges few months after his father became the president of the Bangladesh his whole family members were assassinated at their home via military operation she was not present in the country while the operation was conducted and spend further more six years in exhale.

Family being assassinated she was the only member of her family to lead his father legacy, she was chosen as the chairman of Awami League, after returning home in 1981 she started campaigns in the entire country to support democracy which led her to arrest due as well. She was the only politician who stood against military dictatorship and force the military commander to step down from the office in 1990.

Sheikh Hasina first got elected as the prime minister of Bangladesh in 1996 after defeating her opponents from Bangladesh Nationalist Party, after completing her complete tenure Hasina got elected for the second time in 2009 after the emergency got lifted from the country. She has been known as one of the brave politician in the Bangladesh history.

Bangladesh court opens murder case against ex-premier Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh opened Tuesday a murder investigation into ousted ex-premier Sheikh Hasina… Read More

Pakistan rejects Indian claims of involvement in Sheikh Hasina’s ouster

The Foreign Office has dismissed Indian allegations that Islamabad influenced the resignation of Bangladesh’s former… Read More

Sheikh Hasina will return to Bangladesh for elections, her son says

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return to her country when its new caretaker… Read More

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Bangladesh's parliament was dissolved on Tuesday, the president's office said in a statement, a day… Read More

Bangladesh awaits interim government, army chief to meet protesters

Bangladesh's army chief will meet student protest leaders on Tuesday as the country awaits the… Read More

Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina lands in India’s Agartala

Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina landed in India's northeastern city of Agartala on Monday… Read More

Burned TV station showcases anger at Sheikh Hasina

Torn portraits of Bangladesh's independence hero litter a ransacked state television station -- a pointed… Read More

Bangladesh: One-woman democracy

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For Bangladesh PM, authoritarian tag is ‘badge of honor’, son says on poll eve

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Bangladesh court hands life sentence to acting opposition party chief over 2004 blasts

A Bangladesh court on sentenced Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the opposition BNP to… Read More

Bangladesh chief justice resigns after graft allegations

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Saturday said its chief justice has tendered his resignation from overseas in… Read More

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DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina headed for the UN General Assembly on Saturday to… Read More

Bangladesh detains 13 teachers for defaming founding leader

DHAKA: Thirteen teachers of Bangladesh were charged with sedition on Wednesday over a high school… Read More

India woos Bangladesh with defence loan, credit

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday offered $4.5 billion in concessional loans to… Read More

China woos key India ally Bangladesh with investment

DHAKA: Bangladeshi leaders on Friday will welcome the first Chinese president to visit in three… Read More

Kerry says evidence of IS links to Bangladesh extremists

DHAKA, BANGLADESH: US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday there was evidence to link… Read More

Bangladesh shuts ‘objectionable’ news websites

DHAKA: Bangladesh has shut down dozens of online news services including those of pro-opposition media,… Read More

Bangladesh opposition leader charged with sedition

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Myanmar’s Rohingya to be relocated on an island

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