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February 21, 1952 remains one of the most significant dates in the history of Bangladesh, a landmark day in the context of the 1971 liberation war. To understand how the Bhasha Andolan (Language Movement) became a mass uprising, we must look at the class struggle that led up to the movement. (...)
Gowher Rizvi has to defend the indefensible.
In Bangladesh, ask a ruling Awami League politician what words should follow “development” and the response will be “over democracy”. Riding on two successive controversial elections, Awami League politicians are given to reminding Bangladeshis that (...)
Altaf Hossain’s life has been shaped by the repeated struggles he has faced ever since his village was swallowed by the mighty Meghna river in the southern Bangladeshi town of Mehendiganj in Barishal District. Although the 55-year-old carpenter has always managed to earn enough to survive, he (...)
Two months ago, Cyclone Amphan ravaged southwestern Bangladesh, swallowing entire villages along its coast, compounding the annual monsoonal floods. According to media reports, this has resulted in the worst floods in a decade, affecting a third of the country and at least 1.5 million people. (...)
Bangladesh confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 8 March 2020. In the span of a little over a hundred days, the number of positive cases crossed the 100,000 mark with more than 1300 dead. The country imposed a nationwide lockdown on 26 March and extended it several times. As the lockdown was (...)
Over the past three decades, global inequality has reached a critical level. The world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%. Multinational fashion companies have secured billions of dollars to earn the same amount a Bangladeshi garment worker will earn over her lifetime.
Many have (...)
Bangladesh Krishok Federation-BKF officially started work with MTCP2 (Medium Term Cooperation Program-Phase 2) since 2014. After its implication with MTCP2 Bangladesh Krishok Federation experienced lots of changes in the organizational process. It got huge orientation to find new way of (...)
The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail
Dearest Arundhati,
It was a letter I read and reread long before it appeared before my eyes. It was (...)
The 11th National Election in Bangladesh was held on 30 December 2018.
Once again Bangladesh witnessed a national parliamentary election, taking place on 30 December 2018. It was long expected election at home and abroad. This is because the last election which took place on 5 January 2014 was (...)
Dozens of candidates pull out, claiming ruling Awami League rigged country’s first contested election in a decade.
The leader of Bangladesh’s opposition alliance has described Sunday’s general election as farcical, saying any outcome would be rejected and demanding that a new vote be held.
At (...)
Bangladesh is now known as the land of the largest non-governmental organisation (BRAC), and the largest microfinance institution (Grameen Bank). In the last four decades since independence, Bangladesh has become more marketised, more globalised, and more urbanised than ever. It has had (...)
"Bangabandhu [Sheikh Mujibur Rahman] would have beamed with pride at the passion and idealism of Bangladesh’s student community,” a neighbour told me.
I reached out for my copy of Willem Van Schendel’s A History of Bangladesh on Wednesday last week, almost two weeks after the beginning of the (...)
The students’ movement that erupted on 29 July following the death of two students in a tragic road accident in Dhaka spread to almost all the major cities of the country. Thousands of outraged school and college students laid siege to the streets of the capital Dhaka for a week demanding road (...)
As protests subside, authorities are using onerous digital laws to target demonstrators
Demonstrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, started as a demand for better road safety and spiralled into a larger expression of frustration against corruption and the government. Photograph: Monirul Alam/EPA (...)
The undersigned Asia-Pacific left parties and organisations condemn the violent repression of the peaceful protests by students in Bangladesh.
These peaceful protests were sparked by the killing of two students — and critical injury of several others — by a speeding bus in Dhaka on July 29. The (...)
Dhaka: “Mercy?? No mercy today, no mercy tomorrow, no mercy for the next one year. Where was mercy when the two lives were killed? Only mercy to people who will abide rules. Saqib, take this driver to the police.” A tenth grader raised his voice in the middle of a student-led road blockade in (...)
The famous photographer has been tortured and accused of falsifying reports of school and university student protest. Alam was picked up from his home by the police just hours after he went live on Facebook to describe the student protests in the city and how he was attacked by members of the (...)
Nationwide student protests enter fifth day, causing government to shut down thousands of high schools.
Tens of thousands of students, many of them teenagers, have brought areas of Bangladesh to a near-standstill during five days of protests following the deaths of two teenagers killed by a (...)
Bangladesh, which became independent from Pakistan in 1971, is a young country. Only 7 percent of the 160 million people in this South Asian country – which is home to more Muslims than Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia combined – are over the age of 60, according to a 2016 United Nations (...)
No Place for Criticism
Summary
On April 9, 2018, Bangladesh listed its new Digital Security Bill in parliament, which was then sent to a parliamentary standing committee for review. The proposed law is in part intended to replace section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act (...)
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