Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Interim PM of Bangladesh

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, along with his team of 17, on Thursday took oath as the Prime Minister of the Interim Government set up in Bangladesh following the situation that had arisen after Ms Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post and fled the country.

Student leaders Nadid Islam and Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan join the Interim Government. Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin administered the oath to the 84-year-old Prof. Yunus in the evening. The ceremony was attended by politicians including BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Amir Shafiqur Rahman and Jatiya Party chairman Ghulam Muhammed Quader, diplomats from the U.K., Japan, China, Philippines, Iran, Argentina, Qatar, The Netherlands and the UAE and others. None from the Awami League was present at ceremony.Opinions from various quarters suggest that there are some forces outside Bangladesh which inspired the protests that effected many deaths and eventually ousted Hasina from power.