"We are pretty confident about entering the parliament in the next election," Muhammad Mamunul Haque, joint secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam, an influential coalition of Islamic schools, told AFP in an ...

Bangladesh's Islamists, suppressed for years, are preparing for upcoming elections, promising to implement sharia law if they secure political power.

More than 20,000 supporters of an Islamist group have rallied in Bangladesh’s capital to denounce proposed recommendations for equal rights for mainly Muslim women ...

The Dhaka University administration has formed a seven-strong committee to inquire into the killing of students and Chhatra ...

A seven-member investigation committee has been formed to probe the death of Shahriar Alam Shammo, a student of the Institute of Education and Research of Dhaka University, who died in an attack by ...

For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Abul Kashem Muhammad Fazlul Haque, vice-principal of Dhaka Quaderia Taiyabiya Alia (Kamil) Madrasa, read out a declaration at the ...

Muhammad Saad Ul Haque holds a Master of Postcolonial Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He completed his Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University with a Political Science ...

In Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam has cautioned chief adviser Muhammad Yunus against implementing ... Hefazat's joint secretary general, Mamunul Haque, stated the proposals contradict Islamic law ...