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  • The attack followed a controversial speech by removed former PM Sheikh Hasina, Rahman’s daughter, from exile in India.

    A group of protesters inside Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic residence.

  • Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh attacked the old family home of exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

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  • Wave of attacks overnight also targeted houses and businesses belonging to Hasina’s Awami League supporters.

    Protesters use an excavator to demolish the Dhanmondi-32 residence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of the ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh February 6, 2025. REUTERS/Mehedi Hasan

  • Students from religious school vandalise venue set to host women’s match, a day after similar incident in another city.

    A women's football match was called off after locals vandalised the venue in northwestern Bangladesh [Screengrab/Channel 24]

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NGO warns interim government must act to avoid return of rights abuses seen under former PM.

The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group holds the "March for Unity" rally demanding proclamation of the July Revolution and to mark the student-led uprising five months ago that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and to remember the more than 1,000 killed in the violence at the Central Shaheed Minar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 31, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Five months after Sheikh Hasina’s removal, the party is divided. Some leaders won’t apologise; others want a reckoning.

The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group holds the "March for Unity" rally demanding proclamation of the July Revolution and to mark the student-led uprising five months ago that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and to remember the more than 1,000 killed in the violence at the Central Shaheed Minar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 31, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Pakistan and Bangladesh have edged closer as politics in both countries ride on a general anti-India sentiment.

Pakistani army chief General Asim Munir (right) met Lieutenant General S M Kamrul Hassan, principal staff officer of the Bangladesh army this week in Rawalpindi. [Handout/Inter-Services Public Relations]

The MP resigned on Tuesday over links to her aunt, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

MP Tulip Siddiq

Verdict is latest judicial victory for Zia who was released from house arrest following Sheikh Hasina’s ouster.

Khaleda Zia

Anticorruption minister Tulip Siddiq quits amid questions over ties to toppled Bangladeshi leader, Sheikh Hasina.

Tulip Siddiq, 42, had repeatedly denied any wrongdoing

India has scaled back visa operations in Bangladesh, hitting thousands of patients who rely on its hospitals for care.

Shariful Islam and his wife, from Joypurhat in northwestern Bangladesh, have been travelling to India for the past four years for medical treatment. Now, their visas have expired and they're struggling to get new ones [Moudud Ahmmed Sujan/Al Jazeera]

Krishna Das Prabhu faces sedition charges for leading rallies demanding better security for minorities in Chattogram.

Bangladeshi Hindu leader Krishna Das Prabhu shows a victory sign as he is taken in a police van

Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s gov’t is accused of killing hundreds of protesters last summer.

Dhaka

Dhaka says it will probe the botched mutiny, including the role of alleged ‘foreign’ backers.

Bangladesh Mutiny

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