POLITICS-BANGLADESH: Analysis by Farid Ahmed DHAKA, Jan 2 (IPS) - With a stunning landslide victory under her belt, prime minister-elect Sheikh Hasina Wajed has a second opportunity to put the ghosts of the past to rest and release ...
BANGLADESH: DHAKA, Dec 28 (IPS) - Bangladesh goes to polls on Monday after a military-backed interim government spent two years trying to cleanse the country's electoral system of fraud and get rid of rampant corruption in public ...
POLITICS-BANGLADESH: DHAKA, Nov 19 (IPS) - Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, scheduled for Dec.18, are now slipping into uncertainty with former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia demanding that a state of emergency imposed by the ...
SOUTH ASIA: DHAKA, Jul 8 (IPS) - As rising seas, melting glaciers, floods and cyclones are increasingly putting millions of people at risk in South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) met here last week to ...
POLITICS-BANGLADESH: DHAKA, Jun 27 (IPS) - Bangladesh is lurching into crisis again as its military-backed interim government insists on holding local government polls amid the strong opposition of all major political parties. The major ...
BANGLADESH: DHAKA, May 24 (IPS) - Authorities here have stepped up surveillance against avian influenza after the case of a 16-month-old boy, who took ill in January, was diagnosed as one of infection with the deadly H5N1 virus. Bangladesh ...
POLITICS-BANGLADESH: DHAKA, May 21 (IPS) - As the military-backed interim government continues to arrest leaders of mainstream political parties on charges of corruption, hopes for early restoration of democracy in Bangladesh are receding. ...
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