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At least 18 people, including a member of a security agency, have been killed and more than 200 others injured in poll-related violence, making it one of the deadliest polls in the country.
Khaleda, who has twice been the country's prime minister and shares a long-standing rivalry with the current leader Sheikh Hasina, was jailed in February after being convicted for misappropriation of funds for an orphanage.
Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was admitted to the hospital in Dhaka on October 6 for treatment following a court directive.
The verdict was passed on an appeal filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission after Zia was handed a five year term in the same case.
Dhaka: A Bangladesh court sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, lawyers said, after she was jailed for five years in a separate case in February.The terms will run concurrently, meaning she will spend an extra two years
The island is also a favoured nesting ground for endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles.
The attack on an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004 targeted Hasina, who was the opposition leader at that time.
Looming US sanctions against Iran and the unwillingness or inability of the OPEC and Russia to raise output to offset the loss of Iranian supply have spurred prices higher.
What began as an outpouring of anger over the failings of an unregulated transport industry after a speeding bus killed two students in Dhaka, quickly escalated into the widest anti-government protests in the South Asian nation in years.
The speaker announced that elections of the new speaker and his deputy will be held on August 15.