Overview
- Classes moved online and public transport thinned out nationwide as security forces, including soldiers and BGB, guarded key sites in Dhaka.
- Police and local media reported crude-bomb blasts and arson against buses, a train coach and offices, including a Grameen Bank branch, over recent days.
- Sheikh Hasina remains in India and is being tried in absentia, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty and ex–police chief Chowdhury Abdullah Al‑Mamun serving as a state witness.
- Dhaka police said dozens of members of the banned Awami League were arrested this week, while the Foreign Ministry summoned India’s deputy envoy over media interviews with Hasina.
- Muhammad Yunus announced that voters will weigh the July Charter on the same day as parliamentary polls, with proposals that include term limits, stronger checks on executive power and expanded presidential authority.