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Bangladesh government: Opposition leader Khaleda Zia can't contest polls

Zia must confess her wrongdoings if she wants to go abroad for treatment: Bangladesh law minister

July 01, 2021 1:38 pm

Law Minister Anisul Haq added that if someone can find other legal provisions over this, he would quit his profession.

Bangladesh turns down jailed former PM Khaleda Zia's request to fly abroad for treatment

May 09, 2021 8:36 pm

The 76-year-old chief of main Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who is serving a 17-year jail term on charges of embezzling foreign donations, has been temporarily released from prison amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bangladesh's MPs-elect to take oath on Jan 3; BNP to boycott

January 01, 2019 3:45 pm

The newly-elected leaders of the BNP, headed by imprisoned former premier Khaleda Zia, will not take oath as they have rejected the results, the party announced Tuesday,

Sheikh Hasina to inaugurate Bangladesh Bhavan today, her minister oversees preparations

Bangladesh elections 2018: Hasina looks for third consecutive term as Oppn seeks revival

December 29, 2018 10:42 pm

For Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the election will be a litmus test of her policies and programmes, executed during the last one decade of her uninterrupted rule.

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Day of reckoning

December 29, 2018 12:18 am

As Bangladesh goes to polls again, choice is not tidy. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a good friend to India, has been a polarising leader at home

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Ahead of Bangladesh vote, opposition says it has been silenced

December 28, 2018 5:29 pm

Thousands of campaign fliers bearing photographs of the nuclear physicist with flowing grey hair lie in piles at his home because his supporters are too frightened to put them up in public places, the 72-year-old said.

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Battle for Bangladesh

December 22, 2018 7:29 am

Sheikh Hasina faces anti-incumbency and a united opposition armed with the slogan of change

Bangladesh polls 2018: EC rejects nomination of jailed former PM Khaleda Zia

December 02, 2018 9:38 pm

The Commission's decision came four days after the Bangladesh High Court ruled that a person jailed for more than two years cannot contest polls, effectively ruining Zia's chance to participate.

Bangladesh opposition BNP says will take part in polls

November 11, 2018 4:04 pm

The BNP, which is in disarray following the jailing of its chief, former prime minister Khaleda Zia, on corruption charges, had also pressed for a caretaker government at the 2014 election and boycotted it after the demand was not met.

Bangladesh court doubles jail term of former PM Khaleda Zia in orphanage grafts case

October 30, 2018 12:00 pm

Zia, 73, is already behind bars after being handed a five-year term in February, this year.