The British minister responsible for financial services and fighting corruption resigned on Tuesday after weeks of questions over her financial ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, ousted last year as prime minister of Bangladesh.

London: United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced another setback on Tuesday with the resignation of his anti-corruption minister, Tulip Siddiq. Her departure came shortly after she was implicated in an embezzlement investigation in Bangladesh,

Tulip Siddiq has resigned as Treasury minister over allegations linked to her aunt's political movement in Bangladesh. Ms Siddiq's aunt is the former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled into exile after being deposed last year and is facing an investigation by an anti-corruption commission in Bangladesh,

Bangladesh's interim government should hold general elections by August in the "greater interest of the country," the party of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia said on Tuesday, citing growing political and economic instability.

By bno Chennai bureau The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called on the country’s interim government to hold parliamentary elections no later than July or August 2025, underscoring its view that a delay would deepen political and economic instability.