News Bangladesh People: Lost Votes, Broken Trust: Understanding Gen Z’s Disenchantment with Elections in Bangladesh
A new survey finds that three-quarters of youth in Bangladesh have never voted in any national election – and asks them why. In more than 50 years of independence, Bangladesh’s political dynamics have ...
News Bangladesh People: An Interview With Tarique Rahman – Likely Bangladesh’s Next Prime Minister
Bangladesh will hold its next national election on February 12. A referendum to shape the nation’s future governance structure will also be held on the same day. This election, the first since the ...
News Bangladesh People: Bangladesh defies stereotypes when it comes to health care. Let's keep it that way
Bangladesh defies the stereotypes. It was born in poverty but has risen up the income ladder and is a model of health progress. Will the current political upheaval take a toll on its impressive achievements?
News Bangladesh People: Three more die from dengue amid massive outbreak across Bangladesh
A total of 241 people have been affected by dengue in Noakhali as of Saturday morning. Of them, 66 patients were hospitalised, including 50 patients in Noakhali General Hospital, said the district ...
News Bangladesh People: Born in the USA, 'Boss' the bull fetches record price in Bangladesh
Dhaka (AFP) - "Boss", a Brahman bull born in the USA but raised in Bangladesh, has been sold for a record price as the country prepares to sacrifice over 10 million animals to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha next week, officials said Thursday. Raising animals for Eid al-Adha is
News Bangladesh People: Bangladesh floods to slash 400,000 T from rice harvest
... heavy monsoon rains has killed at least 108 people and affected more than 6 million people in Bangladesh and damaged other crops, mostly in the northern region. "This is a huge loss for the ...
News Bangladesh People: Bangladesh mobs lynch eight people over child abduction rumours
At least eight people have been murdered by lynch mobs in Bangladesh over fabricated allegations of child abduction, police have said. Officials said the deaths were linked to rumours that children were being kidnapped and sacrificed in order to build the Padma Bridge, one of Bangladesh’s biggest infrastructure projects. A rumour that “human heads and blood are required to
News Bangladesh People: Human sacrifice bridge rumours spark Bangladesh lynchings
Eight people have been killed in vigilante lynchings in Bangladesh sparked by rumours on social media of children being kidnapped and sacrificed as offerings for the construction of a mega-bridge, police said Wednesday. The victims -- which include two women -- were targeted by angry mobs over the rumours
News Bangladesh People: Hasina congratulates Boris Johnson, hopes to celebrate 50 years of Bangladesh-UK ties together
“Please accept my heartiest congratulations and that of the government and the people of Bangladesh, on your assumption of the office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern ...
News Bangladesh People: Death toll from Nepal, Bangladesh floods jumps to over 167
The death toll from severe flooding in parts of Nepal and Bangladesh rose to more than 167 on Monday, even as heavy rains are starting to ebb and water levels started to recede in some of the worst-affected areas. Torrential rains in Bangladesh killed more than 47 people in the last two weeks and at least 120 are missing and feared dead following severe floods and landslides in mostly mountainous Nepal, authorities from the two countries said.
News Bangladesh People: Bangladesh: Monsoon floods & landslide continue
Floods have forced more than three million people from their homes across north and northeastern India, officials said on Monday (July 15). Floodwaters in the northeastern Indian state of Assam rose overnight with the Brahmaputra river, which flows down from the Himalayas into Bangladesh, and its tributaries still in spate. More than 1.7 million people in Assam have been displaced by the floods, authorities said, and most of the Kaziranga National Park, home to the rare one-horned rhino, was also underwater. Known for its tea industry, Assam is often inundated by seasonal flooding, and state and federal governments have spent millions of rupees on flood control. Worst affected is the northern Indian state of Bihar, where some 1.9 million people have fled their homes due to rising waters, a state government release said. In neighboring Nepal, 64 people were killed and 31 were missing, with around a third of all districts hit by heavy rains, authorities said. Many of the deaths were caused by landslides that swept away houses.
News Bangladesh People: Floods put over 4 million people at risk in Bangladesh
DHAKA: Torrential rains in the northern and southeastern parts of Bangladesh have put more than 4 million people at risk of food insecurity and disease, the International Federation of Red Cross ...
News Bangladesh People: Extraordinary Senior: Sabera Hossain's service spans as far as Bangladesh
"I really connected with the kids; they were like my little brothers and sisters," said Hossain, who has a Bangladeshi background and is active in the Bangladesh Heritage ... experience new cultures, ...
News Bangladesh People: China garment factories may shift to Bangladesh
Some Chinese garment makers want to set up factories under joint venture in Bangladesh as they see the country as a competitive destination to relocate plants amid a raging US-China trade war and rising costs in the world’s second largest economy.
News Bangladesh People: ICC World Cup: Bangladesh look to Shakib Al Hasan to tame New Zealand in 200th match
Bangladesh missed Shakib when a finger injury ruled him out ... "I don't normally look at it (his statistics), but if people are talking about it, I obviously feel happy." New Zealand showed against ...
News Bangladesh People: Bangladesh, NZ seek 2nd win in Cricket World Cup at the Oval
Christchurch. Bangladesh cut short a tour of New Zealand in March when most of the team and some staff heading to Friday prayers avoided, only by minutes, being in a mosque where a gunman killed 42 ...
News Bangladesh People: ‘Trade Winds’ visited Bangladesh in first major recent US mission: Embassy
This was Assistant Secretary Steff’s first visit to Bangladesh. The embassy said he was impressed by the warmth and hospitality of the people of Bangladesh and Bangladesh’s ascent into middle ...
News Bangladesh People: Health services expand in Bangladesh refugee camps, but monsoon rains bring new threats
In 2018 many people were also injured by weather-related accidents and landslides. At a health workshop to take stock of achievements and plan for the challenges ahead last week in Cox’s ...
