Bangladesh's Oppn accuses Hasina of fielding 'dummies', threatening voters

IANS | January 7, 2024 9:12 AM

New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The 76-year-old Sheikh Hasina has been in power for 15 straight years -- the longest-serving leader in Bangladesh’s history -- and tenure has been marked by allegations of authoritarian rule, targeting of the opposition, suppression of people’s rights and large-scale vote rigging in elections held to keep her in power, a media report said.

As world focuses on new crises, Rohingya refugees languish in Bangla camps

Arul Louis | January 7, 2024 9:03 AM

United Nations, Jan 7 (IANS) Six years after the crisis erupted in Myanmar, almost a million Rohingya refugees are languishing in Bangladesh, most in the squalor of the world’s largest refugee camp located in the Cox's Bazaar area, and hundreds are adrift on the high seas looking for asylum elsewhere, while a few thousand have reached safer shores.