Bangladesh news on new prime minister

Army Chief says Muhammad Yunus’s new government will take office on August 8.

News Highlights Bangladesh :

India’s embassy and consulates in Bangladesh have been evacuated, along with all non-essential employees and their families.

The leader of the interim administration is Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who resigned and left Bangladesh one day earlier than Sheikh Hasina. The leaders of the protests said that they anticipate Yunus’s temporary government’s members being finalized on Wednesday. Yunus was appointed during a late-Tuesday conference attended by leaders of student protests, military officers, representatives of civic society, and executives from industry.

On August 7, 2024, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was suggested by leaders of the Bangladeshi student community to lead the country’s temporary administration, is seen standing at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, France.

Latest developments for Bangladesh

• Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana should be taken into custody and sent back to Bangladesh, according to calls made by AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).

• The Dhaka Tribune stated that more than 20 bodies of Hasina’s party members had been discovered as the nationwide protests continued.

• An Air India aircraft from Dhaka carrying 199 passengers and six babies landed in Delhi early on Wednesday morning amid political upheaval in Bangladesh.
• President Mohammed Shahabuddin of Bangladesh dismissed the legislature on Tuesday, allowing an interim administration to be established.
• In addition, the president lifted house arrest against Hasina’s fiercest adversary, Begum Khaleda Zia, the head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

• Hasina’s mural in Dhaka was vandalized by thousands of demonstrators who broke into her home following her resignation.
• In addition, they overran the Bangladesh Consulate in New York and took down the picture of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Hasina.
• Following political upheavals in Dhaka, Nepali security authorities have increased their monitoring both at the Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu and across the border.
• As individuals may seek safety in India, security authorities are on high alert to prevent unlawful
  violence in Bangladesh, which includes assaults on members of political and religious organizations.
• It has stated that it is imperative that the new administration conducts credible investigations into all of these incidents and provide victims’ compensation.

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