Faisal Mahmud

Ab­dul Mo­men tells Al Jazeera that Bangladesh is ca­pa­ble of con­duct­ing free and fair polls in the wake of US visa curbs.

As Yunus faces cor­rup­tion and labour law charges, glob­al fig­ures say coun­try’s only No­bel win­ner is be­ing ‘per­se­cut­ed’.

Rights groups say more than 600 peo­ple dis­ap­peared since Awa­mi League gov­ern­ment led by PM Sheikh Hasi­na came to pow­er.

Refugees mark Au­gust 25 as ‘Geno­cide Day’ to de­mand jus­tice and safe and vol­un­tary repa­tri­a­tion to their Myan­mar homes.

The new arrange­ment will def­i­nite­ly ben­e­fit In­dia. But its ben­e­fits for Bangladesh are ques­tion­able, ex­perts say.

Law min­is­ter says law will be re­placed by an­oth­er leg­is­la­tion which will re­move sec­tions that were al­leged­ly mis­used.

The Bangladesh Na­tion­al­ist Par­ty have called for the next elec­tion to be over­seen by a neu­tral care­tak­er gov­ern­ment.

At least 176 peo­ple – 31 of them chil­dren be­low 14 – have died of the mos­qui­to-borne fever this year, of­fi­cials say.

Fre­quent pow­er cuts due to fuel short­ages wors­en mis­ery as sear­ing heat forces schools to close and dis­rupts lives.

The nine-storey build­ing col­lapsed in 2013, killing 1,134 peo­ple, in one of the dead­liest in­dus­tri­al dis­as­ters ever.