Key organizers of last year’s student-led uprising in Bangladesh have launched a new political party, setting the stage for an intense electoral battle in the South Asian nation, which is expected to hold polls by December.

Less than 24 hours later, a violent confrontation erupted between local residents and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) personnel in Cox’s Bazar, approximately 397 km from Dhaka, resulting in the death of a civilian.

Bangladeshi students who led last year’s mass protests to oust Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have launched a political party before parliamentary elections expected to be held within the next year. Addressing a rally on Manik Mia Avenue adjacent to the parliament building in the capital on Friday,

Bangladesh’s interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, must rebuild the nation after Sheikh Hasina’s regime was overthrown, while dealing with resistance from her supporters.

A legal scholar breaks down the various steps in the process of extradition – which is all the more complicated when an ex-prime minister is involved.

Students in Bangladesh who led a mass uprising to topple former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last summer are now diving into politics by forming the new National Citizen Party. The aim is to create new political space in a fiercely divisive dynastic political landscape.

Analysts say China is making overtures while diplomatic tensions have risen between Bangladesh and India on a range of issues. This includes ousted Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina living in exile in India.

Analysts say China is making overtures while diplomatic tensions have risen between Bangladesh and India on a range of issues. This includes ousted Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina living in exile in India.

As relations between New Delhi and Dhaka remain strained following the ouster of Bangladesh's autocratic former leader Sheikh Hasina, social media users in the Muslim-majority nation have shared a video they falsely claim shows a mosque set on fire in neighbouring India.

As protesters demolished a museum to the father of Muslim-majority Bangladesh's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina, an image purportedly showing a Hindu relic found at the building surfaced online. The misrepresented picture shows a statue of the Hindu deity Shiva in a temple in southern India.

A spike in violent crime in the Bangladesh capital makes youth who risked lives for change ask: ‘What was it all for?’

Hundreds of students gather to launch their new political party called the Jatiya Nagarik Party or National Citizen Party in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/)