Bangladesh Crisis Highlights: PM Modi congratulates Yunus, hopes for 'return to normalcy & safety of Hindus and minorities'

Attack on minorities continue unabated in Bangladesh

Around 20 Hindu temples, 300 households have been vandalised since Monday and at least 24 people were burnt alive in hotel owned by Awami League leader. The country also saw the top ranks of Bangladesh Army re-shuffled.

India, the US, and the UN are keeping a keen eye on the situation.

Amid crisis, trade between India and Bangladesh resumes

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel guard at Petrapole border in Bengal, which has South Asia's largest land port. 

The two South Asian neighbours' trade came to a halt on August 5 following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh and it partially resumed on Wednesday through several land ports in West Bengal, except Petrapole.

Sheikh Hasina's daughter 'heartbroken' not able to meet mother

Old photo of Saima Wazed with mother Sheikh Hasina.

"Heartbroken with the loss of life in my country Bangladesh that I love. So heartbroken that I cannot see and hug my mother during this difficult time. I remain committed to my role as RD," Wazed said in a post on X.

Muhammad Yunus and team all set to form interim government in Bangladesh

Muhammad Yunus, a harsh critic of Hasina, is known as the 'banker to the poor' and was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding a bank that pioneered fighting poverty with small loans to needy borrowers.

Bangladesh's only Nobel laureate is now pushed for the job by the student protesters who led the campaign against Hasina. He is expected to be sworn in as chief adviser along with a team of advisers on Thursday (August 8).

Once democracy is restored, Sheikh Hasina will return to Bangladesh: Sajeeb Wazed Joy

Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy asserted that the members of the Sheikh Mujib (Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) family will neither abandon its people nor leave the beleaguered Awami League in the lurch.

Bangladesh got independence for second time and people must strive to protect this: Muhammad Yunus says after returning to Dhaka

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus pledges to deliver a govt which assures safety to citizens

Muhammad Yunus on Thursday promised to deliver a government which assures safety to its citizens, as the Nobel laureate returned to the protest-torn Bangladesh from Paris to take oath as the head of the interim government following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina.

Yunus, 84, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his pioneering work on microlending, was designated head of the interim government after President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved parliament on Tuesday after Hasina resigned as Prime Minister and fled the country following widespread protests against her regime.

As far as India is concerned, interests of people of Bangladesh are foremost in our mind: MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal

EAM Jaishankar and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy spoke about the developments in Bangladesh and West Asia: MEA

Hindu Jagran Manch stages protest outside Bangladesh High Commission in Kolkata over the issue of attacks on Hindus in crisis-hit Bangladesh

We do not have any update on her plan: MEA spokesperson responding to question on when Sheikh Hasina will leave India

We hope for an early restoration of law and order in Bangladesh: MEA

We are also monitoring the situation, about the status of the minorities: MEA

In touch with Bangladesh authorities to ensure safety, security of Indian missions, our personnel and Indians residing in that country, says MEA

Situation in Bangladesh is still evolving, says MEA

The External Affairs Minister informed in a statement that there are 19,000 people in Bangladesh including 9000 students. The majority of them have come back. There are Indians who want to come back. Our High Commission is assisting them: MEA

We also want to make it clear that it is the responsibility of every government to ensure the well being of all its citizens: MEA

Indian-American congressmen call for immediate end to violence against Hindus in Bangladesh

Two prominent Indian-American lawmakers have called for an immediate end to the ongoing brutal violence against the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led government.

The Congressmen have also urged the prime minister-designate of the interim government, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, to uphold the rule of law as he takes over the reins of the interim government.

The remarks by two influential Congressmen come a day after scores of Hindu American groups met State Department officials amidst the spike in crime against the minority Hindu community and the destruction of Hindu temples in Bangladesh. (PTI)

Diplomatic community members have been invited. It is likely that our High Commissioner will participate: MEA on the swearing-in ceremony of Bangladesh's new interim govt

Set up camps to rehabilitate Garos, Khasis from violence-hit Bangladesh: BJP leader in Meghalaya

 BJP leader in Meghalaya has asked the state government to set up a camp to rehabilitate Garo, Khasi and other tribals living in Bangladesh who are victims of the political unrest.

In a letter to Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Thursday, BJP vice-president Bernard N. Marak requested setting up of a humanitarian camp to support these refugees if they are allowed to enter India.

Marak stressed that these tribal groups should be provided with temporary shelter and support while ensuring that they are deported back to Bangladesh once the situation there improves.

Bangladesh student leaders Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud who led the protests that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be part of the new caretaker government: X/Prothom Alo

The United States is ready to work with the interim government of Bangladesh, the country's foreign ministry said: X/Prothom Alo

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as head of Bangladesh's interim government

Advisory council members suggested in Bangladesh's interim govt

1. Professor Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser

2. Syeda Rizwana Hasan, chief executive of BELA; 

3. Farida Akhtar, women's rights activist; 

4. Adilur Rahman Khan, founder of Odhikar; 

5. AFM Khalid Hossain, Hefazat-e-Islam nayeb-e-ameer and Islami Andolan Bangladesh adviser; 

6. Nurjahan Begum, Grameen Telecom trustee; 

7. Sharmeen Murshid, freedom fighter; 

8. Bir Pratik Faruk-e-Azam; 

9. Nahid Islam, DU student and key organiser of the Anti-Discrimination Students' Movement;

10. Asif Mahmud, DU student and key organiser of the Anti-Discrimination Students' Movement; 

11. Salehuddin Ahmed, former governor of Bangladesh Bank; 

12. Prof Asif Nazrul, Dhaka University law professor; 

13. Hasan Arif, former attorney general and adviser of Fakhruddin Ahmed-led caretaker government; 

14. Brigadier General (retired) M Sakhawat Hossain; 

15. Supradip Chakma, chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board (CHTDB); 

16. Prof Bidhan Ranjan Roy, director of the National Institute of Mental Health & Hospital's Department of Psychiatry (not sure); 

17. Touhid Hossain, former foreign secretary.

(Source: The Daily Star)

No one from Awami League was seen at Bangabhaban during the oath-taking ceremony

(Source: The Daily Star)

Adviser to BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia demanded that Awami League be politically banned for killing hundreds of students in the anti-discrimination student movement

(Source: X/ Prothom Alo)

BNP not to induct any other political party leader-activist or non-political person from joining the party until further orders

(Source: X/ Prothom Alo)

Bangladeshi attorney and environmentalist Syeda Rizwana Hasan commented that reforming the state, eliminating discrimination, establishing human rights and good governance will be the main tasks of the interim government

(Source: X/ Prothom Alo)

PM Modi congratulates Yunus, hopes for 'return to normalcy & safety of Hindus and minorities'

The newly appointed Attorney General Asaduzzaman said, 'My first and foremost duty is to stand up for the people of this state'

(Source: X/ Prothom Alo)