Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has restored a nonpartisan caretaker government system for elections but says it won’t apply to the polls being held early next year

Prof Bharadwaj says that long-standing economic and cultural ties often endure beyond political shifts: data show that trade between India and Bangladesh grew between 2001 and 2006, when the "less friendlier" Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in coalition with Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), was in power.

Bangladesh’s capital and major cities are calm despite a call for a nationwide shutdown by supporters of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Her supporters have threatened unrest if her Awami League party, once the country’s largest, remains banned from elections in February.

The sentence to death against Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for crimes against humanity is seen as a chance for national healing after the violent uprising last year that killed hundreds and ended her 15-year rule.

People in the packed courtroom - including families of victims - cheered and clapped, and some in the crowds outside sank to their knees and offered up prayers after the verdict, the harshest against a leader in the country's history.

Up to 1,400 people were killed and thousands were injured, mostly by security forces’ gunfire, in the uprising last year, according to a U.N. report.

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A tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death for her involvement in the use of deadly force against protesters last year. She fled to India and was sentenced in absentia.

Sheikh Hasina, who is in exile in India, was convicted in absentia of crimes against humanity in connection with a bloody crackdown on protests last year.

In what promises to be a cracking game of cricket, India-A take on Bangladesh-A in the semi-final of the ongoing Rising Stars Asia Cup 2025. It is the semi-final clash and hence stakes would be high.