• 

  Graft cases: Zia says no confidence in Bangladesh court judge

  World | March 01, 2015 19:52 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition party chief Khaleda Zia today expressed no-confidence in a trial court judge hearing two graft cases involving over USD 6,50,000 which could see her jailed for life.The 69-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)

• 

  Bangladesh opposition calls fresh 72-hour shutdown from tomorrow

  World | February 21, 2015 17:24 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia's party has announced a 72-hour nationwide shutdown from tomorrow to intensify pressure on the government to hold fresh elections, raising tensions in the country already plagued by political standoff

• 

  Bangla High Court orders govt to take steps against protests

  World | February 15, 2015 20:00 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh High Court today ordered the government to take “effective action” to stop the ongoing anti-government protests as the current wave of unrest claimed over 100 lives since opposition leader Khaleda Zia's BNP launched

• 

  Hasina rejects talks as Bangladesh unrest toll exceeds 100

  World | February 11, 2015 16:17 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today rejected a call for dialogue with the opposition, saying she will not talk to “murderers” of innocent people as the death toll in the recent political turmoil crossed

• 

  Security around Khaleda Zia's office stepped up after protests

  World | February 09, 2015 20:57 IST

  Dhaka: The security around Bangladesh Opposition chief Khaleda Zia's office has been stepped up after hundreds of pro-government activists tried to besiege the building demanding withdrawal of the ongoing nation-wide blockade.Workers have erected a barbed-wire

• 

  Bangla police charges Khaleda Zia for instigating violence

  World | February 04, 2015 17:24 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia was today charged by the police with ‘instigation' of the fire-bombing of a bus that left 7 people dead amid escalating political crisis in the country that has claimed

• 

  Power, cable, net connections to Khaleda Zia's office in Dhaka cut off

  World | January 31, 2015 16:32 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh authorities on Saturday disconnected satellite cable and internet connections to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office here, hours after electricity connection was cut off, local media reported.BNP Chairperson's media wing member Shamsuddin Didar

• 

  Zia's son buried in Bangladesh amid political turmoil

  World | January 27, 2015 20:16 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia's self-exiled son, who died in Malaysia last week, was buried here today amid an escalation of political turmoil that has claimed 37 lives.Arafat Rahman Koko was buried at the

• 

  Another case filed against Khaleda Zia

  World | January 27, 2015 12:21 IST

  Dhaka: Another case, for "instigating arson", has been filed against former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia, who had called a nationwide transport blockade earlier this month, a media report said on Tuesday.Police booked her as

• 

  Ex-Bangla PM Zia charged with 'masterminding' arson attack

  World | January 25, 2015 17:42 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia has been charged by police of masterminding an arson attack on a bus that left 29 people injured, days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the former premier could

• 

  Begum Khaleda Zia's son Koko passes away in Malaysia

  World | January 25, 2015 13:22 IST

  Dhaka: Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Begum Khaleda Zia, died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. He was 46.Koko suffered a cardiac arrest at

Advertisement
• 

  Hasina fails to meet grieving Zia; turned away from gate

  World | January 24, 2015 23:43 IST

  Dhaka: Sheikh Hasina today drove to the office of her arch-rival Khaleda Zia, who suffered bereavement losing her youngest son, but the Bangladesh Prime Minister had to go back from the gate without meeting the

• 

  30 dead as Bangladesh political violence escalates

  World | January 24, 2015 7:45 IST

  Dhaka: Police in Bangladesh are braced for more violence this weekend after arson attacks, protests, strikes and blockades in recent days left 30 people dead and hundreds more injured.More than 7,000 people have been detained

• 

  Khaleda Zia accuses govt of turning Bangladesh into police state

  World | January 06, 2015 7:36 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh's besieged opposition leader Khaleda Zia today accused the ruling Awami League of turning the country into a "police state" and warned of "dire consequences" for confining her to her office."None can hang on

• 

  Shun the path of violence: Hasina to Zia

  World | January 05, 2015 23:45 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today gave a pep-talk to her archrival Khaleda Zia, advising her to shun the path of violence and refrain from “sabotage, violence and killing people”, amid deadly clashes between

• 

  B'desh police besiege Zia at office ahead of polls anniversary

  World | January 04, 2015 14:30 IST

  Dhaka: Ahead of the first anniversary of the controversial elections which was boycotted by the opposition, police confined Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Khaleda Zia, besieging her office here and forcing her to spend the night

• 

  Bangladesh SC rejects Khaleda Zia's petition

  World | November 30, 2014 12:14 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh's apex court Sunday rejected an appeal by former prime minister Khaleda Zia challenging a high court ruling that had upheld her indictment in a graft case.A five-member bench of the Supreme Court's appellate

• 

  Court starts trial of former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia

  World | September 22, 2014 17:11 IST

  Dhaka: A Dhaka court Monday started the trial of former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia on corruption charges in her absence.Zia has been charged with embezzlement in two cases that

• 

  Swaraj leaves for home after Bangladesh visit

  National | June 27, 2014 14:33 IST

  Dhaka: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met former Bangladesh President Hussain Ershad's wife and opposition Jatiya Party leader Roshan Ershad before leaving for Delhi at the end of her three-day visit here.  The meeting

• 

  External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets BNP chief Khaleda Zia

  World | June 27, 2014 11:41 IST

  Dhaka: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today held a meeting here with former Bangladesh Prime Minister and chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia.Swaraj, who held a series of meetings with the top leadership