Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has announced that it has decided to prepare a “proclamation of July uprising”, a day after it distanced itself from a proposed declaration with an identical title by the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement that led to an upheaval four months ago.

Bangladesh's interim government considers lowering the voting age to 17 to engage more young people in nation-building, and might also reduce the minimum age for MPs to 21. The proposals, supported by the constitutional reform commission,

Yunus, 84, who was sworn-in to lead the interim government after the ouster of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August, on Friday suggested that the minimum voter age should be lowered to 17 years.