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Pakistan's failed energy policies spark HESCO uprising against another pri
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Employees of Pakistan's Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) halted work in a pre-emptive show of resistance against their federal government's renewed plans to privatise electricity distribution firms, including their own.
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Pakistan's failing security apparatus sparks mass uprising in Balochistan
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
On January 5, thousands of residents, including men, women, lawyers, activists, and professionals, poured onto the streets of Turbat.
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Travel restrictions lifted for CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli by Inquiry Comm
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The inquiry commission investigating the September 8-9 incidents has lifted the movement restrictions on CPN-UML chair and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, a day after recording his statement at his Gundu residence in Bhaktapur, The Kathmandu Post reported.
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Bangladesh: Inqilab Moncho to hold 'March for Justice' from Jan 3 to deman
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Sharif Osman Hadi, an Inqilab Moncho convenor and one of the prominent figures behind the July uprising last year, which led to the ousting of the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's regime, was pronounced dead on December 18, after he was shot at close range on December 12 while travel
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Bangladesh: Inqilab Moncho reminds govt of deadline day for Hadi's murder
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Fresh protests erupted in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, on Friday as Inqilab Moncho, a mass cultural movement formed during the 2024 July Uprising, held a blockade in the Shahbagh region, demanding justice in the murder of Osman Hadi, one of the prominent leaders of the movement, who died
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Jamaat-e-Islami strikes seat pact with student-led NCP ahead of Bangladesh
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Jamaat-e-Islami has announced a seat-sharing alliance ahead of Bangladesh's 2026 elections, triggering divisions within the National Citizen Party. The political shake-up comes as the Awami League remains banned and key opposition leader Tarique Rahman returns from exile.
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Bangladesh's student-led National Citizen Party split over alliance with J
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The student-led National Citizen Party (NCP), which was formed during the July Uprising last year, leading to the ousting of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has now found itself divided over alliance and seat-sharing discussions with the Islamic conservative party Jamaat-e-I
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Yunus's decision-making clearly influenced by jihadist elements in Banglad
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Former Indian diplomat Suresh K Goel on Saturday warned that the current relative calm in Bangladesh is "the calm before the storm", asserting that Chief Adviser of the interim government Muhammad Yunus's decision-making is being heavily influenced by jihadist elements following the wides
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Bangladesh: National Citizen Party moves towards electoral alliance with J
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The political landscape in Bangladesh has been witnessing some significant moments in the country ahead of the national parliamentary polls in February 2026 and with the current shifts in the country's political trajectory, the student-led National Citizen Party (NCP), formed in the afterma
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'We want democracy, not rule by false propaganda, and not religious state'
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Bangladeshi journalist Muktadir Rashid has expressed strong optimism about the possibility of holding free and peaceful elections in Bangladesh, asserting that the country should emerge as a democratic nation with fairly elected leadership, free from false propaganda and religious extremism,
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BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman lands in Bangladesh after 17 years in e
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
After spending 17 years in exile, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Acting Chairman, Tarique Rahman, returns to Dhaka on Thursday, in what is expected to be a major political event in the country's history after the ousting of the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year during the Ju
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Bangladesh Home Affairs special assistant Khuda Baksh Chowdhury resigns af
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Amid the political turmoil across the country following the killing of one of the prominent figures in the July Uprising, Osman Hadi, Bangladesh's Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser of the interim government on Home Affairs, Khuda Baksh Chowdhury, resigned from his position, the Daily
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