Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called for reconstitution of interim government’s advisory council by excluding controversial advisors to maintain the administration’s neutrality. BNP Standing Committee Member Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain made the announcement on Saturday night following a meeting with the Chief Advisor at state guest house Jamuna. He stated, “To uphold neutrality and public trust, controversial figures should ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus is not resigning, Planning Adviser Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud commented after a closed-door meeting with council of advisers on Saturday. “We are here to carry out the responsibilities entrusted with us and can’t go leaving those.” The closed-door meeting of the council of advisers began at 12:20PM at the National Economic Council (NEC) conference room at ...

National Citizen Party (NCP) convenor Nahid Islam has said that NCP has no connection with the two student advisers Mahfuj Alam and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain. Nahid said, “They (Mahfuj Alam and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain) joined the government as representatives of the mass uprising. I was also with them. If they want to do politics, hold elections, they can’t ...

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen almost £90m of luxury property in London belonging to two men linked to the deposed ruler of Bangladesh. In a development that comes after mounting pressure on the UK to assist Bangladesh in tracing assets linked to the former regime, the NCA obtained nine freezing orders, official records show, according to The ...

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice to Sarjis Alam, Chief Organiser (North) of the National Citizen Party (NCP), alleging against him a contempt of court. Lawyer Jashimuddin sent the notice on Saturday morning over Sarjis’s comment on the court’s verdict that declared that there is no legal bar for BNP leader Ishraque Hossain to take an oath ...

Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus sets to meet leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami amid rising political tensions and some rumours of his resignation as head of the interim government. Yunus has invited the BNP delegation to the State Guest House Jamuna, his official residence, at 7:30PM on Saturday, followed by a meeting with Jamaat leaders at 8:30PM. A four-member ...

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen two high-value London properties owned by Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman, son of prominent Bangladeshi businessman and former investment adviser to Sheikh Hasina, Salman F Rahman, according to a report by the Financial Times (FT). The freezing orders were issued as part of a civil investigation into alleged embezzlement by individuals linked ...

Dr. Muhammad Yunus will not step down from his role as Chief Adviser of the interim government, his Special Assistant Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb. He shared the information in a Facebook post on Friday noon. Taiyeb emphasized Yunus’s continued leadership as essential for Bangladesh’s peaceful democratic transition and urged the interim administration to show greater efficiency and political inclusivity. In the ...

In light of the ongoing political crisis in the country, an emergency meeting was convened late Thursday night at the central office of Islami Andolan Bangladesh in Purana Paltan, Dhaka. The meeting was called by the Amir of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim, widely known as Pir Saheb of Char Monai, bringing together top leaders from five ...

The possibility of Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus’s resignation was discussed during a scheduled meeting of the interim government’s Advisory Council held on Thursday at 11:00 AM at the Chief Adviser’s Office in Tejgaon. Three advisors, two officers of the chief advisor present at the advisory council meeting and student leaders confirmed this information. According to meeting sources, the ...