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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Arun Devnath
Muhammad Yunus(Bloomberg) -- Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has announced that the next national election will be held in the first half of April 2026, narrowing the timeline from his earlier range of December to June and setting a clear target for the return to an elected government in the South Asian nation. “One of the major responsibilities of this government is to ensure that the next election is clean, festive, peaceful and widely participatory.
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2 weeks ago |
thedailystar.net | Arun Devnath
Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed yesterday painted a broad and human-centred picture in his budget speech. He spoke of the July Mass Uprising martyrs, the injured and their families. He spoke of mothers who can't afford protein, farmers cut off by flash floods and migrant workers seeking dignity abroad. He also spoke of the silent contributions of women whose labour remains outside the GDP ledger.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Arun Devnath
Street vendors sell vegetables in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Bloomberg) -- Bangladesh’s interim government targeted a smaller fiscal deficit and lowered spending in its maiden budget, as the South Asian nation aims to meet conditions for future International Monetary Fund loans, critical for the crisis-hit economy.
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2 weeks ago |
thedailystar.net | Arun Devnath
No soaring GDP promises. No obsession with mega projects. No grand applause in parliament. This year, it's just the finance adviser and his unemotional speech to be broadcast in the quiet hum of state television. Today, Salehuddin Ahmed will go on air at 3:00pm to deliver the first budget of the interim government -- and the first of his life. There will be no fanfare, but a nation listening in measured anticipation.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Arun Devnath
Sheikh Hasina(Bloomberg) -- Bangladeshi prosecutors officially charged former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two senior officials with crimes against humanity for their alleged roles in violent crackdowns during the 2024 student-led uprising. An investigation report found that Hasina “directly ordered” state security forces, her political party and affiliated groups to conduct operations resulting in mass casualties.
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