Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder has resigned from his post.Talukder submitted his resignation letter to the Financial Institutions Division secretary on Friday citing personal reasons, sources in the Division said.
Secretary Md. Abdur Rahman Khan, however, declined to say anything in this regard.
The mobile phone of Abdu...
Bangladesh’s Failure Must Worry India
The collapse of a friendly government in Bangladesh is bad news for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Most of India’s diplomatic relationships in South Asia are increasingly swaying to Beijing’s tune. But the significance of this week’s turmoil goes beyond geopolitics. Chaos at India’s eastern doorstep is also a warning to the bigger economy: The youth want employment, from politicians they can hold accountable. What they don’t want is jobless growth with democratic backsliding.
Moment of hope and a new beginning for Bangladesh
The people of Bangladesh have created an opportunity for themselves by way of a mass intervention in order to oust the rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and as a result, she has fled the country after resigning from her position. The people were mostly led by students and independent movements of people rather than any traditional political parties. This uprising is a product of long years of suffering of the people under the regime of Hasina. Local and international human rights organisations have repeatedly commented on and protested against the large-scale violence unleashed by her regime on all persons who expressed any form of criticism or any independent views on affairs relating to Bangladesh. Heavy levels of censorship prevailed on all for...
Bangladesh protests are not the first time student uprisings have helped bring about radical change
In Bangladesh, weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs turned into a broad uprising that forced the prime minister to flee the country and resign.
The demonstrations began peacefully last month and were primarily led by students frustrated with the system that they said f
avored those with connections to the ruling party.
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avored those with connections to the ruling party.
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Portfolio allocated: Who gets which ministry?
The cabinet responsibility in the interim government led by Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus has been announced, with the distribution of portfolios among the advisors.
This information was released in a notification on Friday at 1 PM.
According to the announcement, Professor Dr. Asif Nazrul has been assigned the Ministry of Law and Justice, Saleh Uddin the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Adilur Rahman the Ministry of Industry, Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Hasan Arif the Ministry of Local Go...
This information was released in a notification on Friday at 1 PM.
According to the announcement, Professor Dr. Asif Nazrul has been assigned the Ministry of Law and Justice, Saleh Uddin the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Adilur Rahman the Ministry of Industry, Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Hasan Arif the Ministry of Local Go...
Advisers pay tributes to Lib War martyrs at Savar
Newly formed interim government Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus and thirteen advisers paid homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial in Savar this morning.
At first, Dr Yunus placed the wreath around 10am amid heavy rain and stood in solemn silence here for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the martyrs of the 1971 War of Liberation.
A smartly turned-out contingent drawn from Bangladesh Arm...
A smartly turned-out contingent drawn from Bangladesh Arm...
