Bangladesh Independence Award for teacher who died saving her students
Maherin Chowdhury, the teacher, rescued at least 20 children from the burning Milestone school building in Dhaka on July 21 last year.
Maherin Chowdhury, the teacher, rescued at least 20 children from the burning Milestone school building in Dhaka on July 21 last year.
A 7-year-old's brutal death in Bangladesh exposes the country's child safety crisis, the writer says.
Earlier this year, 187 Bangladeshis had already been deported from the US.
Countries including the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Oman, and Bahrain have either shut or heavily restricted entry for Bangladeshi workers, with no clear timeline for…
Organisation and relatable communication outpaced rivals.
The writer says: "The country deserves better than a government that only condemns after the fact. Words are not governance. Inaction is complicity. And when mobs dictate the…
From January to July, the rights organisation for indigenous people of Bangladesh documented alarming incidents of land grabbing, criminalisation, sexual violence, torture,…
A new “July Charter” urges Bangladeshi parties to pledge key reforms—like PM term limits and a bicameral system—within 2 years post-election; feedback is due by July 30.
On average, 400 bodies arrived each month, equating to about 13 per day. In January this year, 447 bodies were brought home.
Without clear and enforceable measures, such a transition could jeopardise the country's religious harmony and undermine the principles of equality that have long been embedded in…