Prof Bharadwaj says that long-standing economic and cultural ties often endure beyond political shifts: data show that trade between India and Bangladesh grew between 2001 and 2006, when the "less friendlier" Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in coalition with Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), was in power.

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajeeb Wazed, said that Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus will not be able to kill his mother.

The son and adviser of ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Sunday that supporters of her Awami League would block February’s national election if a ban on the party was not lifted,

Sheikh Hasina's son said, “If Muhammad Yunus was popular, then why would he not have just held an election and then run the country with legitimacy.”

The August 1975 coup plunged the young nation into years of political turmoil and set off a cycle of military interventions that lasted for decades.

The court has found ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun guilty of all the charges levelled against them.