News stories by Farid Ahmed, page 2

The Bangladesh government is drawing flak from the international community for removing microcredit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank that he founded and led.

Bangladesh has vowed to bring to justice the fugitive killers of the country’s founder president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, now that five of his assassins have been executed 35 years since his murder.

Despite appeals by human rights organisation to the Bangladesh government to end extrajudicial killings in the country, no steps have been taken to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Bangladesh goes to polls on Monday after a military-backed interim government spent two years trying to cleanse the country's electoral system of fraud and get rid of rampant corruption in public life.