Al Jazeera
Bangladesh’s new outcasts: Students from ex-PM Hasina’s party now in hiding
Originally published: AL Jazeera Until August, they dominated college campuses and were accused of leading violent mobs against anti-Hasina protesters. Now they’re on the run – and angry at their...
Al Jazeera
‘Our lives don’t matter’: Bangladeshi Hindus under attack after Hasina exit
Originally published: AL Jazeera Bangladeshi Hindus – seen as allies of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina – face mounting threats, amid anti-India sentiments. An India-based disinformation campaign...
Dialogue Earth
‘One less mouth to feed’: Climate disasters driving 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,...
Netra News
In Cumilla, a murder exposes army’s contempt for rules
Originally published: Netra News When soldiers swept through a village in Cumilla, they left behind the hallmarks of what legal experts call a clear case...
The Diplomat
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...
Al Jazeera
‘Gotham but no Batman’: Crime grips Bangladesh 6 months after Hasina fled
Originally Published: AL Jazeera Muggings, assaults and rapes are spiking in the Bangladesh capital under Muhammad Yunus’s interim government, leaving youth who risked their lives...
The Diplomat
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,...
NBC News
Bangladesh protesters call on Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead
Originally published: NBC News DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's Parliament has been dissolved, the president’s office said Tuesday, paving the way for an interim government that student protest...
NBC News
Bangladesh’s longest-serving PM flees the country after weeks of deadly 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...
The Wire
Raids, mass arrests and a climate of terror: Student identity sparks concerns of detention in Bangladesh
Dhaka: For Samir Hossain, a 24-year-old student at Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a simple grocery run to a nearby store turned into a hassle...
The Business Standard
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...