Bangladesh, Sept. 23 -- Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has reached New York to attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

A commercial flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the interim government head and his entourage landed at John F Kennedy International Airport at 3pm local time on Monday, state news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) reports.

Earlier, they had departed from Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 1:45am on Saturday, travelling to New York via Dubai.

This year, the chief adviser's delegation includes six politicians.

Among them, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman's Foreign Affairs Adviser Humayun Kabir, Jamaat-e-Islami deputy...