Originally conceived in 1959 by the Pakistan government - when Bangladesh was East Pakistan - what is now Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban was meant to form a second seat of government. Louis Khan was brought ...

a former prime minister from house arrest. Also read | Hasina flees to India, awaits UK asylum; PM Modi holds high-level meet on turmoil in Bangladesh The dissolution of the Parliament paves the ...

Student protests that have been raging in Bangladesh since early last month ... broke into the parliament building and the office of the ruling Awami League party, attacked the homes of members ...

Simply put, a two-house parliament provides for better checks and balances, through more discussions and debates. A bicameral parliament, one of the novel constitutional reform proposals, has two ...

The BNP has yet to finalise who will be elected in the upper house of their proposed bicameral government, the party's Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said today. "We want to establish a ...

The MEA's statement in Parliament comes amid a fresh wave of unrest in Bangladesh over the arrest of a Hindu leader and the targeting of Iskcon and other temples by radical Islamic outfits.