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Minister asks standards adviser to investigate after allegations she lived in homes tied to Hasina government

Associates of former Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina have spent millions buying up top-flight property assets in the UK

Until August, they dominated college campuses and were accused of leading violent mobs against anti-Hasina protesters.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina long ignored the democratic backsliding in each other’s countries to forge close ties. With Hasina ousted from power, India’s warnings over the safety of Bangladesh’s Hindu minority smacks of hypocrisy.

Ever since Bangladesh's prime minister was forced to step down and fled the country, her supporters and associates have faced retaliatory attacks

India views the events in Bangladesh as a setback for security, trade and connectivity and a possible loss of influence.

The ouster of Bangladesh's autocratic premier sparked celebrations in Dhaka this week but alarm in neighbouring India, which backed Sheikh Hasina to counter rival China and quash Islamist alternatives, analysts say.

“If the Indian media had done its job properly, we would’ve had an easier time talking about what we are facing,” said Bipra Prasun Das, a 21-year-old Hindu student from North South University in Dhaka, whose ancestral home was burnt down in violence in Bangladesh this week.

India media make claims linking China and Pakistan intelligence to protests and exaggerate scale of attacks on Hindus.

Bangladesh’s next leader Muhammad Yunus arrived home Thursday from an overseas trip and will take office later in the day, as he looks to restore calm and rebuild the country following an uprising that ended the 15-year, increasingly autocratic rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina has fled and a new interim leader has been named. This is the moment for the country to leave its dynastic politics behind, says writer Salil Tripathi