Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- The United States has lauded Bangladesh's Interim Government for moving to make all procurements for natural resource extraction fully open and transparent, suspending all previous or ongoing direct negotiations led by the former government.

The observation came in the "2025 Fiscal Transparency Report" released by the US Department of State, which reviewed Bangladesh's fiscal management during the period of political transition. The report highlighted that following the July change in governance, the non-political Interim Government generally followed the budgetary recommendations of its predecessor but initiated significant reforms aimed at strengthening fiscal transparency.

It said that while the previous government...