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November 12, 2024 11:35 AM

Bangladesh: Appointment of new advisers to interim government sparks protests

In Bangladesh, different sections of people including Student Movement Against Discrimination protested across the country on Monday against the appointment of some new advisers of the interim government questioning their role during the previous government. The interim government headed by professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday appointed businessman Sheikh Bashir Uddin, filmmaker Mostofa Sarowar Farooki and special assistant to the chief adviser Mahfuz Alam as advisers and reshuffled portfolios ...

Bangladesh: Government to publish ‘white paper on the state of the economy’

In Bangladesh, the interim government has taken a decision to publish a white paper on the state of the economy in six priority areas, including public finance, inflation, and food management. An economist and a distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Debapriya Bhattacharya will be the chief of a panel of economists and eminent citizens, who will come up with the white paper, according to the press wing at the Chief Adviser's office. The committee will publish the white pa...