Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn into office Thursday as Bangladesh’s interim leader, vowing to guide the country back to democracy after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, who only returned home hours earlier, swore to “uphold, support and protect t...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, 84, could be sworn in as the country’s new leader as soon as Thursday evening to begin what the army chief […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday overturned a conviction against Mohammed Yunus. “Professor Muhammad Yunus and three of his colleagues have been acquitted of labour charges,” one of his lawyers, Khaja Tanvir Ahmed, told AFP. “The court earlier this year sentenced them to six months in prison.R...
In what observers are calling a hopeful move, Bangladesh’s “Students Against Discrimination” movement has taken to using mosque loudspeakers to promote communal harmony amid the country’s current unrest. In a special announcement broadcast from mosques across the nation the group urged citizens to stand united in protecting Hindu communities a...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The key coordinators of the student movement that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee Bangladesh announced Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus as the chief advisor of the interim government on Tuesday. In a video posted on social media, key coordinator Nahid Islam along with two other coordinators said “we have decid...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule of the country ended on Monday as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government. Hasina had sought since early July to quell nationwide protests against her government, but she fled after a brutal day o...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Protesting students in Bangladesh have rejected the prime minister’s call for dialogue. “The door of the Ganabhaban (official prime minister’s residence) is open. I want to sit with the students and listen to them. I want no conflict,” said Sheikh Hasina, the premier. She also ordered the release of “innocent” st...
Bangladesh has banned the opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, under anti-terrorism laws. The ban, effective immediately, was announced by the Home Ministry and has sparked strong criticism from Jamaat-e-Islami. The party denounced the action as unconstitutional and a diversion from ongoing student prot...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh announced that a curfew will continue Friday and Saturday with a nine-hour pause amid an intensified crackdown against those involved in violence during student protests. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced at a news conference early Friday after meeting with law enforcement that the curfew, which came ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh — AFP Torn portraits of Bangladesh’s independence hero litter a ransacked state television station — a pointed expression of public fury against his daughter, who just witnessed the worst unrest of her premiership. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addressed the nation on Bangladesh Television (BTV) last week to ...
