Bangladesh crisis updates: Sheikh Hasina lands at Hindon airport in India after resignation

Bangladesh news updates: Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka after resigning as prime minister amid Bangladesh's violent protests fueled by unemployment. Protestors had stormed the Gono Bhaban.

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has landed at Hindon airport in India after fleeing from Bangladesh. Earlier in the day she had handed over her resignation amid mass protests. Bangladesh army chief has said that he had invited political leaders to the meeting and would also meet  President Mohammed Shahabuddin to discuss the matter.

Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina landed in the city of Agartala, BBC Bangla reported today. Hasina had resigned earlier as the country's Prime Minister. Hasina had left her official residence 'Gono Bhaban' for a 'safer place' in the face of mass protests, according to a report by Bangladesh's media outlet Daily Star.  Bangladesh's Army Chief Waker-Uz-Zaman said he would help form an interim government. 

A senior aide of Hasina had hinted at the possibility of her resigning from the top post today. “The situation is such that this is a possibility, but I don’t know how it will happen,” news agency AFP quoted the aide as saying, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Supreme Court today took sou motu cognisance of the deaths of three UPSC aspirants in the basement of Rau's IAS coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar, issuing a notice to the Centre and Delhi government.

The top court today held that  the lieutenant governor of Delhi has the power to nominate aldermen to the MCD. A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala rejected the Delhi government's plea that the LG is bound to act on the aid and advice of council of ministers in nominating 10 aldermen to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The Supreme Court pronounced its verdict on the Delhi government's plea after reserving it for nearly 15 months.

Ninety-eight people, including 14 policemen, were killed and hundreds injured on Sunday in fierce clashes between protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and the ruling party supporters in different parts of Bangladesh, forcing authorities to cut off mobile internet and enforce a nationwide curfew for an indefinite period. The clashes broke out Sunday morning when protesters attending the non-cooperation programme under the banner of the Students Against Discrimination with the one-point demand of the government's resignation over a job quota system faced opposition from the supporters of the Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League activists.

Army opens fire on suspected infiltrators along LoC in J-K, search operations underway Jammu, Aug 5 (PTI) Army troops opened fire after noticing the movement of two groups of infiltrators along the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor and Sunderbani sectors of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Monday, officials said.Though there was no exchange of fire, a massive search operation is underway in both areas to ensure that there is no infiltration from across the border, they said.

Alert Army troops fired after picking up suspicious movement of three to four infiltrators in a forward area in the Battal sector of Akhnoor on the outskirts of Jammu around 1.30 am, the officials said.

The casualties due to flash floods after cloudbursts in three districts of Himachal Pradesh rose to 13 with the recovery of four bodies from Mandi and Shimla districts on Sunday.