Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will be the chief adviser of the Bangladeshi interim government, The Daily Star reported on Wednesday, citing a press release of Bangabhaban.
-Bangladesh’s president dissolved parliament on Tuesday (August 6), clearing the way for an interim government and new elections, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled following a violent crackdown on a student-led uprising.
The movement that toppled Hasina rose out of demonstrations against public sector job quotas for families of veterans of Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war, seen by critics as a means to reserve jobs for allies of the ruling party.
About 300 people were killed and thousands injured in violence that ripped through the country since July. After demonstrators stormed and looted the prime minister’s lavish residence on Monday, the streets of the capital Dhaka were again quiet on Tuesday, with traffic lighter than usual and many schools and businesses that shut during the unrest still closed.