Voting for parliamentary elections is to be held in Bangladesh after three days on 12th February. This is the first election being conducted by the interim government of Mohammad Yunus after the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government. Violence against minorities and the ban on Awami League have raised questions on the fairness of elections in Bangladesh and now just three days before the elections, two bad news have come for the Yunus government.
First failed to catch the killer of Osman Hadi Yunus government Has taken refuge in UN and secondly the inflation rate of Bangladesh has increased rapidly. The inflation rate has increased by 8.58 percent.
Student leader Usman Hadi was murdered just before the elections in Bangladesh. Till now the Yunus government has not been able to trace Hadi's killers.
The Yunus government of Bangladesh has sought help from the UN to investigate the murder of Usman Hadi. He has sent a diplomatic message in this regard to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). He has sought help from the UN for a 'fair, non-discriminatory and prompt' investigation into Hadi's murder.
Last December, 32-year-old Hadi was shot dead in Dhaka. The young Bangladeshi leader later died during treatment in a hospital in Singapore. There was unrest again in Bangladesh due to Hadi's death and arson and vandalism took place at many places.
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Meanwhile, Bangladeshi police had claimed last December that Faisal Karim alias Dawood Khan, accused in Hadi's murder, had fled to India through the Meghalaya border. However, BSF has termed this claim as false. Meghalaya Police also said that there is no evidence that Faisal had entered India through the Meghalaya border.
Last month, Bangladesh's Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) had filed a charge sheet against 17 people in the Hadi murder case. Police said that Hadi was murdered on the orders of Taijul Islam Choudhary, organizing secretary of Dhaka Metropolitan North Jubo League (youth wing of Sheikh Hasina's Awami League) and former ward councilor of Mirpur, but Hadi's organization Inquilab Manch is not ready to accept the charge sheet of the police. He claims that a group and state machinery are involved in Hadi's murder.
Meanwhile, the press wing of the interim government's Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunus issued a statement. It said that the Bangladesh Permanent Mission in Geneva had sent a diplomatic message (note verbale) to OHCHR on 6 February. The interim government said that the diplomatic message was sent to ask for help in investigating the murder.
On the other hand, the general inflation rate in Bangladesh has increased again in January 2026, as the inflation rate on point-to-point basis has increased to 8.58 percent.
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This figure is slightly higher than last month, December 2025, when it was 8.49 percent. In January 2025, the general inflation rate in Bangladesh was 9.94 percent, which is much higher than the current rate.
According to the data, inflation in the food sector has increased significantly in January. At this time, the food inflation rate was 8.29 percent, which was 7.71 percent last month.
