Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan made the announcement on Sunday, saying that she can receive treatment at home but cannot leave the country during this period.
September 20, 2021"She is suffering from arm and leg pain. Her fingers are still bent while she is suffering from diabetes as well," Selima said.
May 10, 2020Earlier on Thursday, the Home ministry had sent an order for Khaleda's release to the prison authorities, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave the go-ahead.
March 26, 2020The two graft cases involve the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust.
February 8, 2020In April this year, the High Court had accepted Khaleda's appeal, challenging a trial court verdict.
December 12, 2019Sheikh Hasina was leading a nationwide campaign by rail when her coach came under attack upon arriving in Pabna's Ishwardy on September 23, 1994.
July 3, 2019Hasina dropped 36 members from the previous Cabinet and also didn't pick members of allied parties in her new Cabinet.
January 7, 2019Opposition has called the elections farce and demanded fresh polling; at least 17 people were killed in poll-related violence in eight districts
December 31, 2018Chief Election Commissioner K.M. Nurul Huda made the announcement in capital Dhaka, a day after the opposition alliance, including former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, decided to contest the polls.
November 12, 2018The much-hyped dialogue ended at about 11 p.m. on Thursday which had started four hours earlier at Hasina's official residence here, reports Xinhua news agency.
November 2, 2018Two critical signals were emitted from Bangladesh on Monday, at once very different and confusing. Exactly two months ahead of the general election, Prime Minister Begum Hasina has agreed to hold talks with the Opposition alliance called the Jatiyo Oikya Front. While this may be deemed as a certain forward movement in the country’s murky …
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October 31, 2018Bangladesh is set to hold general elections before a January 5 deadline, although the exact dates have not yet been announced.
October 30, 2018Obaidul Quader, AL General Secretary, said the decision to hold the talks come after Hossain wrote to Hasina seeking a dialogue.
October 30, 2018The increased term was ordered over embezzlement charges for which Zia, the arch-rival of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced in February.
October 30, 2018The final trial proceedings in the case went ahead in the absence of Khaleda, who is serving time in jail over another corruption case, after the prison authorities repeatedly failed to bring her to court.
October 29, 2018On October 14, the HC rejected the revision petition of Zia and cleared the way for the trial court to continue with its proceedings.
October 29, 2018A Dhaka court will announce its verdict on former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case on October 29.
October 16, 2018