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‘One less mouth to feed’: Climate disasters enabling child marriage in Bangladesh

Commissioned by: Dialogue Earth/The Third Pole Longer version: Bangladesh First Republished by: Scroll, Eco-Business, Climate Diplomacy, South Asian Journal Rukhsar Begum* is a 21-year-old woman from Rowmari, an area of Kurigram district...

Endless cycle of poverty and struggle along the coastal shore

Originally published: The Business Standard Sarwar Majhi, a fisherman in the Kutobjom region of Moheshkhali, has to go out to sea regardless of how extreme...

Can Bangladesh Police recover from their part in ‘Hasina’s autocracy’?

Originally published: The Diplomat In Bangladesh, a police high official resigned noting the force has transformed into a "public enemy." In his resignation letter, Md Moniruzzaman,...

Bangladesh’s longest-serving PM falls and flees the country after weeks of protests

Originally published: NBC News Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country Monday, the army chief said, a day after almost 100 people were killed in...

Student-led protests in Bangladesh morph into mass uprising to unseat a ‘killer government’

Originally published: Scroll | The Diplomat When Tisha Mahjabeen first saw the news on her Facebook feed that the main coordinators of the quota reform...

What does it take to parent a child with disabilities?

Originally published: The Business Standard Sanjida Nahar Tumpa and Elius Sarker had just welcomed their baby boy, Sahel, into the world after seven years of...

Ramadan away from home: How it goes for Bangladeshi students abroad

Originally Published: The Business Standard Four thousand miles from home in Poland's Poznan — DM Mahmudul Hasan, a 22-year-old engineering student from Bangladesh, is spending Ramadan...

Woes of university admission seekers amid political strife

Previously Published: The Business Standard Shakia Rahman, an admission aspirant from HSC 2023 intake, is now in a dilemma scheduling her study plan for the...

Mojo’s Gaza aid also rockets its sales

Originally published: The Business Standard - Front page lead 12 March 2024 At precisely 5:32pm on 11 March Monday, a remarkable sight unfolded: Tk68,208 poured...

‘My stomach doesn’t understand blockade’: Transport workers who defy fear, death

Previously Published: The Business Standard "Close the windows; please, everyone keep the windows closed," Mohammad Raju, a helper of a bus, was repeatedly urging his...

Political instability snatching what little left for daily wage earners

Previously Published: The Business Standard "If this situation continues, people will have to survive by eating Kochu Pata ," says Ismail Mia, a rickshaw-puller in...