The Latest Breaking News from Muhammad Yunus

Ousted leader is charged with committing crimes against humanity for overseeing a deadly police crackdown on last year’s agitation against her rule

Classes in schools and colleges have been disrupted and transportation has been halted across Bangladesh as the former ruling Awami League party headed by ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls for a nationwide protest over a trial against her involving last year’s uprising that left hundreds dead

Dhaka beefs up security after crude bombs target schools, cathedral, and Grameen Bank

Thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami and seven other parties have rallied in the capital calling on the interim government to legalize a national charter for political reforms

In a rare interview, former authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina tells The Independent she is not to blame for bloodshed during her ousting, and calls her trial in absentia a ‘sham’

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is calling for the interim government to lift a ban on Hasina's party

Police have used tear gas, stun grenades and batons to disperse protesters outside Bangladesh’s national parliament complex

Chief prosecutor Tajul Islam calls for former home minister to be sentenced to death

Once Bangladesh's largest political party, the Awami League has been outlawed since its leader Sheikh Hasina was overthrown in a mass uprising last year.

Tarique Rahman was sentenced in multiple cases during Sheikh Hasina’s rule but cleared of all charges by Muhammad Yunus’s interim government

Foreign secretary says aid will deliver food, shelter, clean water, and healthcare to people displaced by conflict in Myanmar