The Bangladesh military and other branches of law enforcement commit widespread abuses against people there, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, sexual violence, and land-grabbing, with little redress. At any time in Bangladesh’s history, granting army […]
Two three-star generals have been added to the list of army officials who have lost their posts after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in the face of a student-led mass movement. Army Training […]
The Bangladesh Army has sent Lt Gen Md Saiful Alam, Lt Gen Ahmed Tabrez Shams Chowdhury, and Major Gen Hamidul Haque into forced retirement. They were all former Directors General of the Directorate General of […]
A Bangladeshi court has imposed a travel ban on 17 former ministers and 9 former members of parliament from the ousted Sheikh Hasina government. The officials are accused of irregularities and corruption. The ruling follows […]
The poor quality of Chinese and Indian-imported arms has been on the rise among Bangladesh’s Armed Forces. These issues severely threaten military readiness and harm Bangladesh’s national security. Beijing is proving to be an unreliable […]
The unfounded conspiracy theory that the United States orchestrated the ouster of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, dominates the Russian disinformation narrative. The propaganda campaign involves top Russian and Indian officials. The narrative is […]
Key Points: Did a white man ask ousted Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to hand over St Martins islands to the U.S.? The short answer is that the Pentagon does not make billions of dollars […]
The 33-hour-long BDR mutiny started on the morning of 25 February, 2009 at Darbar Hall inside Pilkhana barracks. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Pilkhana a day before the mutiny to inaugurate the three-day annual ‘Bangladesh […]
Sampriti Exercise is a bilateral defence cooperation exercise between the armies of India and Bangladesh. It is seen as part of Indo-Bangladesh defence cooperation. The eleventh edition of Sampriti will be held in October 2023 […]
A senior Labour minister was facing urgent questions after it emerged she is living in a $22.5 million house owned by a close political ally of her aunt, Bangladesh’s authoritarian former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. […]
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