Information and Broadcasting Adviser, Md. Mahfuj Alam said that the Awami League (AL) faced insolvency or bankruptcy after 2014.
"Despite the party's organisational size, its internal viability had been severely undermined," he said while speaking as the special guest at a book unveiling ceremony at a hotel in the city on Tuesday.
The book title ‘Agnijara Barsha (Fiery Monsoon)’ was unveiled at the end of the ‘Economic Reform Summit 2025. Voice for Reform, BRAIN, Fintech Society, INNOVISION and Nagorik Coalition organised the two-day summit. In his speech, Mahfuj Alam acknowledged that the July Uprising had presented a golden opportunity for reform.
US President Donald Trump headed to Japan on Monday, the second leg of an Asia tour, in advance of a meeting with China's Xi Jinping, aiming to end the bruising trade war between the world's largest economies.
Washington and Beijing sounded hopeful notes at the weekend over the chances of sealing a deal, which helped on Monday to push Japan's Nikkei above 50,000 points for the first time.
Trump is expected to land in Tokyo in time for an evening appointment with the Emperor of Japan, before a meeting on Tuesday with the nation's new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi.
The visiting Chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna late Saturday.
During the meeting, they discussed a wide range of issues concerning Bangladesh–Pakistan relations, including the growing importance of bilateral trade, investment, and defence cooperation.
