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  Mashrafe Mortaza creates history by registering landslide victory in Bangladesh elections

  Cricket | December 31, 2018 12:10 IST

  Mortaza is the first active cricketer to get the position.

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  B'desh elections: Awami League led by PM Hasina registers landslide victory; 17 killed in poll-related violence

  World | December 31, 2018 7:12 IST

  The ruling Awami League-led grand alliance bagged 266 seats and its ally Jatiya Party secured 21, while the opposition National Unity Front (UNF) with BNP being its key partner got only seven seats.

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  Bangladesh Polls: PM Hasina set to win record fourth term; Opposition alliance rejects polls, demands fresh vote

  World | December 30, 2018 22:20 IST

  Hasina is aiming for a record fourth term as prime minister with her Awami League opening up a big lead in early results following a tense vote.  

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  Bangladesh general election: 17 killed, over 64 injured in poll-related violence

  World | December 30, 2018 21:48 IST

  While Hasina is seeking re-election for a fourth term as the prime minister, her rival ex-premier Khalida Zia, who is reportedly partially paralysed, faces an uncertain future in a Dhaka jail.

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  Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina gifts 1.5 bigha land to biggest Hindu temple

  India | October 18, 2018 15:50 IST

  The value of land is nearly 50 crore Bangladeshi taka (Rs 43 crore). The temple, over the years, reportedly, lost a lot of its property to land grabbing.

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  2004 grenade attack on Sheikh Hasina: Khaleda Zia's son sentenced for life, 19 others get death sentence

  World | October 10, 2018 16:09 IST

  The attack on an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004 targeted Hasina, now the prime minister of Bangladesh. Hasina survived in the attack with a partial hearing loss. 

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  B'desh PM slams Myanmar for failing to take back Rohingya refugees

  World | September 28, 2018 17:53 IST

  Hasina said Myanmar had given a verbal commitment to take back Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown she described as "tantamount to genocide and crimes against humanity". 

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  Modi, Hasina launch rail, power projects in Bangladesh via video link

  India | September 10, 2018 21:03 IST

  Modi said Akhaura-Agartala rail link will provide another cross-border connectivity system between the two countries.  

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  BIMSTEC Summit 2018: PM Modi holds bilateral talks with leaders of Thailand, Myanmar and Bhutan

  World | August 31, 2018 14:48 IST

  The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional grouping comprising India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal.

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  Bangaldesh PM Sheikh Hasina urges India to pressurise Myanmar for taking back Rohingyas

  India | May 25, 2018 23:56 IST

  Following the violence in Rakhine, thousands of Rohingyas fled to India, who are now settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan.

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  PM Modi invokes 'Gurudev' at Santiniketan; 'govt is with you', he tells students

  India | May 25, 2018 14:15 IST

  PM Modi, who started his speech in Bengali before shifting to Hindi, quoted from Rabindranath Tagore's famous poem 'Ekla Chalo Re' and that students would get all help from the government.

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  PM Modi at Santiniketan: 'Tagore's legacy not just limited to India, Gurudev still a global citizen'

  India | May 25, 2018 13:48 IST

  The Bangladesh Bhavan features a museum that showcases Rabindranath Tagore's association with the country, the Liberation War of Bangladesh and Indo-Bangla relations.

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  Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina urges India, others to help resolve Rohingya crisis

  World | April 30, 2018 17:48 IST

  "We expect India, China, Russia and Japan to play major roles in resolving the crisis," Hasina said after her meeting with the UN Security Council delegation led by its current President Gustavo Meza-Cuadra in Dhaka.

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  India has nothing to worry about China-Bangladesh ties: PM Sheikh Hasina

  World | February 21, 2018 10:13 IST

  PM Sheikh Hasina said her government was only concerned about the development, and is ready to cooperate with any country that helps Bangladesh's growth.

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  PM Modi, Sheikh Hasina launch new cross-country Kolkata-Khulna train service

  India | November 09, 2017 11:22 IST

  PM Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina today jointly launched a new passenger train service between Kolkata and Bangladesh's city of Khulna.

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  622,000 Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh, informs PM Sheikh Hasina

  World | November 05, 2017 19:30 IST

  Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also urged Myanmar to stop the persecution of the Rohingyas.

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  Bangladesh’s Hindu Chief Justice Surendra Sinha ‘forced’ to go on leave amid reports of ‘confinement’

  World | October 11, 2017 14:00 IST

  Surendra Sinha, Bangladesh's first Hindu Chief Justice, is said to have been forced to go on leave for a month following his run-in with the ruling Awami League.

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  Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina accuses Myanmar of provoking 'war' over Rohingyas

  World | October 07, 2017 22:17 IST

  Around 515,000 Rohingya Muslims have arrived in Bangladesh over the last five weeks after militant attacks on police check-posts in the Buddhist majority country sparked violent reprisals.

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  Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina undergoes gall bladder surgery in US

  India | September 27, 2017 14:58 IST

  Hasina underwent a successful gall bladder surgery at a hospital in Washington on Sept 26, the Prime Minister's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said.

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  Take back Rohingyas, don't call them Bengalis: Sheikh Hasina to Myanmar

  World | September 20, 2017 20:12 IST

  Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh was making diplomatic efforts to persuade Myanmar to take back the Rohingyas who have fled violence in Rakhine state.