Highlighting the importance of improving the electoral system, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus announced the formation of six commissions with six eminent citizens as their heads considering their experience in the respective fields. "After this, we will continue the process of formation of commissions on various other issues," he said in a televised speech marking the first month of the interim government.

Dr Badiul Alam Majumdar will be the head of the Electoral System Reform Commission, Sarfraz Chowdhury will be the head of the Police Administration Reform Commission, Justice Shah Abu Naeem Mominur Rahman will be the head of the Judiciary Reform Commission, TIB's Dr Iftekharuzzaman will be the head of the Anti-Corruption Reform Commission, Abdul Mueed Chowdhury will be the head of the Public Administration Reform Commission, and Dr Shahdeen Malik will head the Constitution Reform Commission. The names of the other members of these commissions will be decided in consultation with the heads of the respective commissions, Prof Yunus said.

Bangladesh has registered a protest to the Indian government on the killing of a 16-year-old boy named Jayanta Jambu of Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon district. The Foreign Ministry said he was shot and killed by Border Security Force (BSF) of India on September 9. In the protest note sent to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh expressed grave concern that despite repeated commitments from the Indian authorities to pursue non-lethal strategy and stop killings, such incidents have been continuing.

This is the second protest in a week that the Foreign Ministry lodged with India. On September 5, it lodged a formal protest to the government of India on the killing of a 13-year-old Bangladeshi girl, Swarna Das of Juri upazila of Moulvibazar district, who was shot and killed by BSF on September 1. Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said: "This is a very sensitive issue. We are constantly communicating that, and we expect them to take it seriously."

The projects taken under the Indian line of credit (LoC) would continue considering their importance to the country, said Salehuddin Ahmed, the finance and commerce adviser to the interim government. "Already, the projects they [India] have with us are big projects and we will continue those and we will take another big project for the benefits of ours," he said in response to queries from reporters after a meeting with Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma at the former's Secretariat office.

The issues regarding the implementation and disbursement under the three Indian LoCs were discussed at the meeting. There were some issues related to the disbursement of funds under the LoCs. Bangladesh and India signed the first LoC agreement involving $862 million in August 2010, the second one involving $2 billion in March 2016 and the third one involving $4.5 billion in March 2017.

Thirteen police stations in the capital were set on fire on the day of the fall of the Awami League government in a student-people uprising and the day after (5 and 6 August). The fires destroyed 1,226 case documents in six police stations - Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Badda, Adabor, Paltan and Wari, according to the preliminary findings. Besides, around 1,100 pieces of evidence have been destroyed or damaged in Mirpur, Badda, Adabor, Wari and Shyampur and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police stations.

There are 50 police stations under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). Of them, 21 stations were vandalised or set on fire on 5 and 6 August, the police said. Thirteen of the police stations were completely burnt that day. Those are - Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Badda, Adabor, Jatrabari, Khilgaon, Paltan, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Shyampur, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Bhatara, Wari and Khilkhet police stations.