Feb 16, 2025, at 08:59 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government, led by Mohammed Yunus, has invited billionaire Elon Musk to introduce his satellite internet service, Starlink, in the country, media reports said.
Feb 16, 2025, at 01:52 pm
Washington DC: As part of its cost-cutting drive to reduce the burden on US taxpayers, the Donald Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated several overseas projects, including one in Bangladesh that has drawn attention.
Feb 15, 2025, at 06:08 pm
A group of Awami League supporters joined to raise slogans against Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus outside the Blair House in Washington on Thursday.
Feb 08, 2025, at 05:28 pm
Bangladesh Interim government chief Muhammad Yunus urged citizens to 'immediately restore complete law and order and to ensure there will be no further attacks on properties' belonging to former PM Sheikh Hasina's family or any members of her Awami League.
Feb 03, 2025, at 05:47 pm
Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus, during whose regime the South Asian country witnessed a spike in attacks on minorities, wished the Hindu community members when they are worshipping Goddess Saraswati on Monday.
George Soros's son meets Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus after Donald Trump freezes aid
Jan 30, 2025, at 06:02 pm
Dhaka: Alex Soros, the son of American billionaire George Soros and chair of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), met with Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh’s interim government, just days after the Trump administration halted foreign aid to Bangladesh.
Donald Trump-led government halts US aid to Bangladesh
Jan 27, 2025, at 10:27 am
The US government has decided to halt all aid to Muhammad Yunus-led Bangladesh, days after President Donald Trump took charge of the country.
Jan 12, 2025, at 07:40 pm
Bangladesh's interim government has rejected India's invitation to attend the 150th-anniversary celebrations of the India Meteorological Department citing current restrictions on non-essential foreign travel at state expense.
Dec 31, 2024, at 04:03 pm
Bangladesh Interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday visited the Indian High Commission in Dhaka to pay his tributes to late PM Manmohan Singh who died in New Delhi last week.
Dec 24, 2024, at 09:51 am
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday spoke with Interim Bangladesh chief Muhammad Yunus when both leaders expressed their commitment to respecting and protecting human rights of all people in the country, amid rising atrocities committed against minorities in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.
Dec 16, 2024, at 12:59 pm
Bangladesh's interim government head Muhammad Yunus has said the national elections in the country -- which has been witnessing a political turmoil since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government in August -- may take place late next year or in the first half of 2026.
Dec 11, 2024, at 02:00 am
The Interim government in Bangladesh on Tuesday acknowledged 88 incidents of communal violence against minorities were reported in the country following the ouster of former PM Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5.
Dec 05, 2024, at 05:26 am
Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has slammed the country's interim leader Muhammad Yunus in her first public address, accusing him of persecuting minorities.
Nov 29, 2024, at 03:31 pm
Bangladesh's interim government intends to pursue charges of crimes against humanity against former PM Sheikh Hasina at the International Criminal Court over the "mass killings" that occurred during the July-August demonstration in the country, officials said.
Nov 26, 2024, at 03:58 am
Amid reports of continuing persecution of Hindus since the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh, ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari has been arrested over sedition charges at Dhaka airport as he was leaving the country, media reports said.
Nov 18, 2024, at 02:02 am
Bangladesh Interim Government Chief Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said Dhaka plans to demand the extradition of former PM Sheikh Hasina from India.
Bangladesh's top official proposes to remove 'secularism' from constitution
Nov 15, 2024, at 06:04 am
Dhaka/IBNS: The Attorney General of Bangladesh, Md Asaduzzaman, has proposed to remove the word 'secularism' from the country's constitution citing 90 percent Muslim population, media reports said.
Those responsible for human rights violations in Bangladesh should be held accountable: USA
Oct 08, 2024, at 11:53 pm
The US government on Monday said those responsible for human rights violations in Bangladesh for the past few months should be held accountable.
Sep 28, 2024, at 08:51 pm
New York/IBNS: Nobel laureate and chief adviser to Bangladesh's interim government, Muhammad Yunus, acknowledged that the ousting of Sheikh Hasina as the Bangladeshi Prime Minister was part of a carefully orchestrated "design and conspiracy."
Bangladesh: Interim govt leader Muhammad Yunus faces 'Go Back' slogans in New York
Sep 25, 2024, at 10:46 pm
A large number of Bangladeshi diaspora members demonstrated outside the hotel where Bangladeshi interim government chief Muhammad Yunus is currently staying in New York over the recent attacks on Hindu minority in the South Asian country following the fall of the former PM Sheikh Hasina-led government in August.
Bangladesh: Nothing wrong if new political parties are formed, says BNP leader Tarique Rahman
Sep 18, 2024, at 07:12 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: Bangladeshi politician Tarique Rahman has said there is nothing wrong in moving towards forming new political parties in the country, which is presently under the interim government that was formed after the fall of Sheikh Hasina regime.
Bangladesh: Muhammad Yunus-led interim govt grants magisterial powers to Army for internal security
Sep 18, 2024, at 06:58 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh has granted magisterial powers to the army, significantly expanding its authority over internal security nationwide, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Police arrest 1971 war crimes advocacy group leader Shahriar Kabir
Sep 18, 2024, at 06:28 pm
Dhaka/IBNS: Bangladesh police have arrested Shahriar Kabir, a prominent leader of an advocacy group pushing for the trial of 1971 liberation war criminals, officials confirmed on Tuesday.
Muhammad Yunus says Bangladesh wants to establish good relationship with India
Sep 12, 2024, at 10:15 pm
Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus has said he wants to establish a good relationship with India and other neighbouring nations.
Sep 04, 2024, at 11:33 pm
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has criticised Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus-led interim government and said the sentiment on the ground is 'anti-India, anti-women and anti-democracy'.
Bangladesh's interim government suspends two diplomats serving in India
Aug 26, 2024, at 11:06 pm
The interim government in Bangladesh has relieved two of its diplomats, who were serving in India, from their duties, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Muhammad Yunus vows to hold free and fair elections after reforming judiciary, media
Aug 19, 2024, at 03:32 pm
Bangladesh interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Sunday vowed to conduct a free and fair participatory election in the country after key institutes like Election Commission, judiciary, civil administration, security forces and media were reformed.
Aug 16, 2024, at 04:42 am
Dhaka: A team of UN experts is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next week to investigate the deaths of protesters before and after Sheikh Hasina stepped down as prime minister last week, according to an announcement made on Thursday.
We have had no involvement at all, says US official on Bangladesh crisis
Aug 13, 2024, at 04:15 pm
The United States on Monday rejected claims that the government was involved in the recent protests in Bangladesh which led to the fall of the former PM Sheikh Hasina-led government in the South Asian nation.
Monster is gone: Bangladesh caretaker govt head Muhammad Yunus on Sheikh Hasina's ouster
Aug 13, 2024, at 05:24 am
Dhaka/IBNS: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who last week took oath as head of Bangladesh's interim government, has praised students who spearheaded protests to oust former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.