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A mourner holds Bangladesh's national flag during the funeral of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi in Dhaka on December 20, after two days of violent protests over his killing. Huge crowds accompanied ...

Bangladesh student leader Sharif Osman Hadi was laid to rest on Saturday in capital Dhaka as massive crowd gathered to bid him goodbye. The funeral was held under amid tight security days after ...

Anti-India radical leader Sharif Osman Hadi was buried beside the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam, in Dhaka University. The decision was taken after requests from the office of Muhammad ...

Sharif Osman Hadi, a leader of Bangladesh's 2024 uprising, who was shot and moved to Singapore for treatment, died in Singapore on Friday. The funeral prayer for Sharif Osman Hadi took place in ...

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The tumultuous month of July 2024 saw the emergence of several student activists who provided organic leadership to a powerful popular movement that overthrew the government of Prime Minister Sheikh ...

Bangladesh is witnessing a volatile and emotional moment after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a young leader who emerged from the student uprising that reshaped the country’s political landscape last ...

Bangladesh is on edge once again as violent demonstrations erupted in multiple cities after the tragic death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi. Hadi, the political activist, was shot dead by masked ...

The killing of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent leader of the 2024 student uprising in Bangladesh and spokesperson for the radical political platform Inqilab Mancha (Manch), has come as a setback to the ...

Violence erupted across Dhaka, on Thursday night (December 18, 2025) as news of the death of Sharif Osman Hadi spread across Bangladesh. Hadi, leader of the radical Inquilab Mancha, had been shot by ...