Siddiq and her family live in a £2.1-million home owned by Abdul Karim Nazim, an official of the London arm of the Awami League. She also rents out a property bought by Abdul Motalif, a property developer with links to her aunt’s regime. It was worth £195,000 in 2001 and given to her in 2004, according to media reports.
These were critics of Sheikh Hasina, the country's prime minister of more ... Questions are now swirling over why Labour failed to see this coming, given the party has long known about Siddiq's links to her scandal-hit aunt. It was 2016 when Bin Quasem's ...
The UK’s decrepit first-past-the-post electoral system virtually guarantees a two-party grip on parliamentary power. Since WW2 the two parties in question have been the Conservatives and Labour, with the Conservatives enjoying 3 long spells in power,
She says she’s not guilty, but Labour city minister responsible for anti-corruption Tullip Siddiq has resigned after accusations of… corruption. Siddiq’s aunt, Sheikh Hasina, is the Bangladesh ex-prime minister overthrown
The Bangladesh Bank has engaged accountancy firms EY, Deloitte, and KPMG to conduct an "asset quality review" of banks
There are a lot of folks outside Bangladesh who are rooting for this democratic transition to work and can bring some expertise to the table. The government should seek technical assistance, monitoring, and reporting by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other UN rights experts.
The funding cut by the US aligns with Sheikh Hasina’s broader efforts. The suspension disrupts the operational and financial flow to organisations that have historically bolstered Muhammad Yunus' standing,
But are the allegations against the British MP politically motivated? Is the Yunus-led interim government settling scores with Hasina?
Bangladesh is in a State of political and economic flux. There is a palpable absence of a unifying and competent authority,essential
BANGLADESH, a nation forged in the crucible of its 1971 liberation war, now sees its legacy of sacrifice and identity increasingly distorted into a tool for political spectacle. Over the last 16 years,
Bangladesh’s central bank has hired Big Four accountancy firms EY, Deloitte and KPMG to conduct an “asset quality review” of banks it claims lost $17bn to businesspeople close to the regime of former leader Sheikh Hasina, bank governor Ahsan Mansur has said.
Not long after her disastrous Budget last October, Rachel Reeves declared that she was 'not coming back with more borrowing and more taxes'.