This is the first time the former prime minister has given a schedule for her return since fleeing to India in August 2024.

Sheikh Hasina said that she doesn't fear death, pointing out the 1975 assassination of her father Sheikh Mujibur Rehman. | World News

Sheikh Hasina, former Bangladesh PM, pledges to return this year despite facing a death penalty and condemns attacks on minorities as threats to the nation's independence.