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We are headed nowhere,’ says Dr Akhil Poddar, Chief News Editor, Ekushey TV. ‘I would not encourage a Hindu boy to fall in love with a Muslim girl in Bangladesh. And I speak from experience.’
It is a busy news day in Dhaka. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in Delhi to meet Indian (...)
Police sued 11,000 unnamed garment workers over vandalism and clashes with law enforcers in Gazipur’s Konabari area.
Law enforcers, both on the riot truck and on foot, use firearms to disperse garment workers who have been protesting for better wage for 10 days. The photo was taken at (...)
Textile workers went on strike at the end of October to demand higher pay. After several days of protests, the minimum wage was raised by 56%, a far cry from their demands. The country’s economic model seems to be gasping for breath.
Just over ten years after the Rana Plaza disaster on 24 (...)
Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League party are seeking a fourth consecutive term and are accused of harassing the rival BNP party
In Bangladesh, there is no more room left in the prisons. In the last two weeks alone, almost 10,000 opposition leaders, supporters and activists have been (...)
Employees making clothes for fast-fashion brands have been demonstrating against a new minimum salary of £92 a month
A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding a wage increase. Anjuara Khatun, a (...)
A discussion meeting was held in Dashmina on the occasion of the 27th death anniversary of eminent farmers’ leader Comrade Abdus Satter Khan.
Today, November 7, 2023, on the occasion of the 27th death anniversary of the lifeboat of peasants’ movement in Bangladesh, pioneers of the land (...)
Several hundred of landless families of North Char Shahjalal gathered, marched and submitted a memorandum to the Hon’ble Prime Minister through Patuakhali Deputy Commissioner demanding Khasland [public land] settlement, cancellation of fake settlements and prosecution of fake settlers who are (...)
On 1st November the Minimum Wage Board in Bangladesh will make its decision on the new minimum wage rate for garment workers. Trade unions and labour organisations are calling for an increase to at least 23,000 taka per month, which is roughly £172. Bangladeshi garment workers deserve a living (...)
Today 19 October 2023, Thursday, on the occasion of World Food Day in front of the National Press Club at 11 am, a human chain, rally and Sanki procession were held in front of the National Press Club by emphasizing the issues of food, hunger, climate change and water under the initiative of (...)
The Dhaka Cyber Tribunal on Thursday jailed internationally acclaimed human rights defender Adilur Rahman Khan and his colleague ASM Nasiruddin Elan for two years for a fact finding report on May 5–6, 2013 violence during Hefazat-e-Islam demonstrations and overnight operations.
In a packed (...)
Workers were reporting high levels of exhaustion and heat stress due to constant power outages during a scorching summer.
-* With Bangladesh witnessing its worst power crisis in a decade, BPO workers have been working from offices with no cooling systems, and going back to homes with no (...)
The Essential Services Bill 2023, which is an update to the original Essential Services (Maintenance) Act 1952, is currently awaiting presidential approval. As of April 2023, the bill was tabled for discussion in Parliament, and the standing committee was allowed 30 days to produce a report on (...)
Shahidul Islam died in an assault on Sunday in Dhaka after meeting garment factory employees fighting for unpaid salaries
Police in Bangladesh are investigating the murder of a prominent trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle a dispute between a garment factory (...)
A rally held in Dasmina Upazila with North Char Shahjalal landless family and a memorandum presented to the District Commissioner of Patuakhali demanding Khas land settlement and cancellation of fake settlement.
On 21 June 2023 at 11 O’clock in front of Dashmina Upazila office in the (...)
Yesterday 8 June 2023 at 5 pm at its temporary office 27/11/1-A, Topkhana Road, Segunbagicha, Dhaka, an emergency meeting of Pragatisheel Krishak Sangram Parishad (an alliance consisting of 15 farmers, farm laborers and landless organizations inspired by the spirit of independence) was held. (...)
At the end of the 12-day visit to Bangladesh, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter, sat for an exclusive interview with The Business Standard.
Let’s start with your takeaways from the trip.
The progress made by the country in the fight against (...)
Bangladesh, a seriously climate affected country, was hit by cyclone Mocha on 14 May 2023.
Cyclone Mocha was supposed to hit the southern part of Bangladesh being a super cyclone. However, eventually, it lost its speed and hit the south-eastern part---Cox’s Bazarand St. Martin island which (...)
Ongoing struggles over Muslim vs. Bengali identities pave the way for authoritarianism in Bangladesh
In the latest iteration of the Bengali vs Muslim identity debate, a Supreme Court lawyer served a legal notice on April 9, 2023 to Bangladeshi authorities to prohibit the Mongol Shobhajatra (...)
Looking back on a corporate crime in Bangladesh that cost over 1,000 lives
The Rana Plaza textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed on 24 April 2013, burying some 5,000 people underneath. The day before, cracks had been discovered in the walls of the factory building and the collapse (...)
April 24th, 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, which killed more than a thousand garment workers in Bangladesh.
With one of the lowest average wages in the world and the leading exporter of ready-made garments (RMG), Bangladesh has since been tied to the image of (...)
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