The big news out of Bangladesh is that the army is out in full strength on the streets of Dhaka, and Prof Mohammad Yunus, head of the interim government, has dropped hints at resigning from his job. (PTI reported that student-led National Citizen Party chief Nhid Islam was quoted by BBC Bangla Service that Yunus is apprehensive over the evolving political situation in the country and whether he will be able to carry on with his work. "Sir said, 'If I can't work. I was brought here after a mass uprising to bring change and reform to the country. But in the current situation, with mounting pressure from movements and the way I'm being cornered, this isn't how I can work. The political parties you've all failed to reach common ground'," Islam told the BBC. Islam is a key coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination, which led the July uprising last year that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation).

Things in Bangladesh are fluid. The official logic for the deployment is that the soldiers are out to safeguard B’desh from the mobs that have been on a spree of looting, dacoity, moral policing........

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