Hopes for the Red Sun finally glimmer lights over landlocked northeast India and plans to connect with landlocked states with Bangladesh, which has been deemed as geostrategic significance to Jap...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/03/japan-to-tie-landlocked-northeast-india-with-bangladesh/
China secretly built the world’s biggest dam over the mighty Brahmaputra River which is likely to jeopardise the ecology, environment, and morphology. If the mega project goes through will imme...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/02/chinas-dam-on-brahmaputra-to-threaten-bd-india/
Bangladesh, Japan, and India will hold a meeting in Tripura on 11-12 April to put in place connectivity initiatives to harness the commercial potential of the region. By Fumiko Yamada Asian Confl...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/04/why-is-japan-edging-closer-to-bangladesh-and-india-in-the-region/
The lights are dim at the end of the tunnel in case of repatriation of Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The country hosts nearly 1...
To facilitate the travel of tourists from home and abroad to Cox’s Bazar, a rail communication network is supposed to develop along with air and road. The railway line from Dhaka to Chittagong ...
Despite some ongoing crises worldwide, a piece of good news for the world is that Myanmar expresses its interest in taking back/repatriating some Rohingyas (estimated 700 Rohingya primarily) in R...
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his v...
Metrorail, one of the mega projects of the government, is no longer a dream but a visible reality. Its trial run has started last year. The train started from Diabari in the capital and returned ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2022/12/metrorail-another-success-story-of-bangladesh/
Food security is stated as one of the citizens’ fundamental rights in the Bangladeshi Constitution. Food security means that everyone has access to enough wholesome food at all times to sustain...
https://www.pressenza.com/2022/11/how-bangladesh-is-trying-to-ensure-food-security-for-all/
Recently United States Congressman Steve Chabot along with co-sponsor Congressman Ro Khanna and Congresswoman Katie Porter introduced a bipartisan resolution 1430 “Recognising the Bangladesh Ge...
https://www.pressenza.com/2022/10/us-congress-to-recognise-bangladesh-genocide-in-1971/
Every year, the citizens of Sylhet district in northeast Bangladesh prepare for a monsoon season that typically runs between June and October. It is a period on which Bangladesh’s rice producti...
by Pathik Hasan December 16, 2021 is knocking on the door. Bangladesh will celebrate its 50th victory day anniversary with full spirit. On December 16, 1971, almost 93,000 Pakistani soldiers su...
https://www.pressenza.com/2021/11/pakistan-should-apologize-to-bangladesh-by-december-16-2021/
by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Yesterday, September 28th was the 75th birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On this auspicious occasion, we, the entire team of Blitz conveyed our warmest...
https://www.pressenza.com/2021/09/sheikh-hasinas-75th-birthday-and-anti-bangladesh-propaganda/
by Pathik Hasan Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, is one of the closest neighbors of Bangladesh. Before the Second World War, many people from Bangladesh used to travel to Burma in search of...
https://www.pressenza.com/2021/09/why-should-myanmar-strengthen-its-relations-with-bangladesh/
by Kazi Jamshed Washington-based global lender the World Bank, through concessional lending arms, has gone to bat for Bangladesh to foster its development initiatives since 1972; committing more ...
Guwahati: Expressing grave concerns over the relentless attacks on temples and Hindu villagers inside Bangladesh, a northeast India based nationalist citizen’s forum urged the Union government ...
Narendra Modi has been in “Muslim” in Bangladesh, saying he staged organized protest for the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971, and even went to jail. Media has started praising this as us...
https://www.pressenza.com/2021/03/narendra-modis-contribution-to-the-liberation-war-of-bangladesh/
Enforce Policies, Provide Services, End Barriers and Corruption in Justice System Women and girls in Bangladesh are facing increased domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting l...
https://www.pressenza.com/2020/10/bangladesh-pivotal-moment-to-stop-violence-against-women/
Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Bishwa Ijtema (World Congregation), is the second largest gathering of Muslims after the holy Haj in Mecca. One of the largest peaceful gatherings in the world, the prayer ...
As reported by Nazrul Jashim of The Humanist Movement, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Santi sokti abong anondo! Peace force and joy from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thirty students from the different departments of...
https://www.pressenza.com/2018/10/dhaka-university-students-mark-international-day-of-non-violence/
As reported by: Nazrul Jashim Photos: Collection courtesy of friends Bangladesh. Since July 30, students of different educational institutions have been demonstrating on the streets, asking f...
https://www.pressenza.com/2018/08/bangladeshi-students-protest-over-road-safety-and-justice/
Yesterday, Mohammad Nazrul Islam, a humanist friend from Bangladesh, and country representative of The Community for Human Development currently developing volunteer educational and livelihood in...
https://www.pressenza.com/2017/11/rohingya-refugees-coxs-bazar-bangladesh/
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. With the longest unbroken stretch of sandy beach in the world, Cox’s Bazar is Bangladesh’s most popular tourist spot. Located by the Bay of Bengal, Bangladeshis and...
Reported by Hadi Azmi/BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service. 22 Sep 2017 – An international panel of judges declared today that the Myanmar government is guilty of committing genoci...
https://www.pressenza.com/2017/09/tribunal-finds-myanmar-guilty-genocide-rohingya/
Summons for Criminal Investigation – Henry Kissinger: “We wish to draw your attention to Kissinger’s comprehensive, unparalleled record of serious international crimes and the need for pros...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/12/nobel-peace-watch-arrest-henry-kissinger/
Summons for Criminal Investigation – Henry Kissinger: “We wish to draw your attention to Kissinger´s comprehensive, unparalleled record of serious international crimes and the need for prose...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/12/norway-prosecute-henry-kissinger-2/
Bangladeshi police have detained dozens of Rohingya refugees, including women and children, who have fled Myanmar’s violence-ravaged Rakhine state. Local police chief, Shyamol Kumar Nath, in th...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/11/bangladesh-send-back-rohingya-muslims-fleeing-violence/
While Assam is boiling against central government’s move to grant citizenship to religious minorities from Bangladesh and Pakistan, a nationalist people’s forum is raising its voice for a con...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/11/concrete-refugee-policy-india/
Youth, a critical juncture of a human life, where the transition from childhood to adulthood hopefully takes place. This means going beyond mere physical transformation to entail biological, psyc...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/08/not-bad-lets-make-better-bangladeshs-youth-policy-2016/
It was recently reported on Pressenza that, asked about the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh’s coastal regions, eminent environmentalist Professor Ainun Nishat disagreed with those other...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/07/bangladesh-cash-crop-climate-change/
Analysis by Naimul Haq BHOLA (IDN) – Bangladesh is one of the world’s countries worst affected by the global warming impact of climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – extr...
By Tekendra Parmar for Waging Nonviolence. On Saturday, I learned what it means to truly grieve during a national tragedy. Terror was brought to my home in a way that didn’t happen with the att...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/07/resisting-extremism-dhaka-attack-radical-love/
The popular media, bdnews24.com, reports that Muslims in Bangladesh are refusing to be rattled by the latest terror attack near the largest congregation ground for religious rites hard on the hee...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/07/bangladeshis-refusing-rattled/
The terrible attack on Holey Artisan café in the upper-end Gulshan business district of Dhaka, Bangladesh will have succeeded in announcing that ISIL is indeed in the country. The government was...
Extra police and border guards by the thousand are on the streets of Dhaka and other big cities and towns of Bangladesh before a general strike takes hold to protest against the executions of two...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/05/bangladesh-reconciliation-not-state-killing-real-healing-deal/
“This week, another humanist blogger in Bangladesh, law student Nazimuddin Samad, was killed on the streets of Dhaka by religious extremists for daring to criticize harmful religious beliefs, s...
Bangladesh needs to develop an active human rights attitude within government and its political parties, which state of affairs is far from what it should be in today’s Bangladesh as citizens...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/03/bangladesh-many-disappeared-little-accountability/
Gov’t in the dark unless media is free, says Irene Z. Khan Irene Z. Khan, director general of the International Development Law Organisation, says development and democracy are not possible wit...
https://www.pressenza.com/2016/02/bangladesh-activist-lectures-govt-on-importance-of-press-freedom/
Dear readers, I am thrilled to share with you ILRF’s new 100-page report Our Voices, Our Safety: Bangladeshi Garment Workers Speak Out. For a quick glance at the core issues it addresses, check...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/bangladeshi-garment-workers-speak/
Bangladesh government today unblocked all social media platforms including Skype, Twitter, WhatsApp and Viber. Mobile phone operators and Internet service providers in the country resumed the se...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/12/dhaka-openes-all-social-media-platforms/
URGE WALMART TO PAY UP TO FACTORY FIRE VICTIMS TAKE ACTION ON BLACK FRIDAY Dear friends, The families of the 112 garment workers killed in the horrific Tazreen Fashions factory fire in Bangladesh...
Faisal Arefin Dipan, owner-publisher of Jagriti Publications, was hacked to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The killing took place in Dhaka’s Shahbag area within hours of an attack on another publi...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/11/bangladeshis-saddened-by-attacks-on-their-media-people/
Bangladesh Association of Hong Kong Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that the renovation of BAHK premises, 396, Shanghai Street (2nd Floor), Yau Ma Tei has been completed. Our long cheri...
Dear Readers,Himal Southasian is pleased to announce the launch of its third quarterly of 2015, ‘The Bangladesh Paradox‘ (Vol 28 No 3). Despite spurts of interest, Bangladesh does not get th...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/10/himal-mag-covering-the-bangladesh-paradox/
To Pressenza, I am sending you a link to see some pictures from yesterday when we celebrated The Day of NonViolence in Bitipara Park . It was an interesting celebration where many… Nazrul Is...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/10/bangladesh-bitipara-park-immersed-in-the-light-of-joy/
Recently, the Bangladesh government has set its target for power generation. According to “Power System Master Plan 2010” announced by government, power generation target is 39,000MW against ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/08/plea-urgent-shift-from-non-renewable-to-renewable-energy/
Bangladesh, which continues to grab international media attention for the wrong reasons, has geared up for a saving of face. As the country witnessed the deadly murder of another atheist blogger ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/08/bangladesh-blogger-killings-signal-dire-need-for-justice/
Rise of fundamentalism is gradually engulfing the much sought for peaceful atmosphere in Bangladesh. Ansarullah Bangla team, a group of fundamentalists, recently threatened to kill 25 top intelle...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/07/dhaka-journalists-raise-voices-against-violent-fundamentalism/
Rapidly, because of outsourcing, freelancing is becoming a most popular and favoured profession for the young people of Bangladesh. Especially, search engine optimization (SEO), Web design and bu...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/06/bangladesh-freelancing-as-number-one-job-for-young-people/
Use of Internet, not to speak of blogging, continues to be restricted among enlightened people in Bangladesh, as more than half of its population has yet to get access to the modern connectivity....
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/06/bangladesh-hacking-mukto-monas-to-death/
“Finally justice is delivered. I was waiting for this moment. The butcher is finally hanged. Million thanks to Allah,” said Begum Bewa, a 60 plus widow from Sohagpur locality of north Banglad...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/05/justice-delivered-for-bangladesh-war-widows/
After a three-month long siege, Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief returned home April 5 from her Gulshan party office. How funny that game of the government where law enforcers confined her the...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/04/bangladesh-impasse-resolution-lies-with-govt/
The “AIIB” is the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a new multilateral development bank as proposed by Xi Jinping in a speech to the Indonesian parliament in October 2013. The concept as ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/04/aiib-chinas-new-bank-garnering-wide-support/
Amid political unrest this year Bangladeshis is being celebrating the 45th Independence and National Day on Thursday to mark the declaration of independence across the country. The country finall...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/03/amid-political-unrest-bangladesh-enters-45th-year-of-independence/
Bangladesh latest – Shafiur Rahman Farabi, main killer suspect nabbed in connection of Avijit killing incident. Meanwhile the usual daily disruptions continue unabated in Dhaka – blog report ...
Shamsul Hoque Basunia reporting on the sentiment from the street of Bangladesh. February 11, 2015 In Bangladesh, people care little about which party is in power. They want peace and security. E...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/02/bangladesh-people-care-little-powers-power/
With no side willing to back down, the political crisis in Bangladesh is worsening. Analyst Samina Ahmed tells DW there is an increased risk of military intervention as political battle lines bec...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/02/bangladesh-crisis-fast-approaching-point-no-return/
No long-route buses after 9pm – Transport companies will refrain from plying their bus rotes on various longer routes across the country after 9pm daily to avoid untoward incidents like arson a...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/02/bangladesh-streets-blockaded-transport-halted/
On the morning of the 22nd January (2015) our offices at Pressenza had just received this note (see The First Note below) from Frank Choudhury, of Fieldwork organisation. Mr Choudhury was then tr...
https://www.pressenza.com/2015/01/confrontational-politics-mires-bangladesh/
“Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect as equals. They should...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/12/understanding-violence-childrens-lives/
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https://www.pressenza.com/2014/12/bangladesh-biti-para-park-study-reflection-weekend/
“I think that an honest and responsive government should be one of the new UN goals. More transparency and less corruption is what is really needed to create a better and more just world,” sa...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/11/anti-corruption-needs-among-uns-development-goals/
Students of the department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka organized a human chain and rally on Monday, November 10, 2014 at the premise of Aporajeyo Bangla to demand ramps in all aca...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/11/bangladesh-ramping-disabled/
On yet another hartel (strike) day in October this year (2014) in Dhaka, BUET campus was abuzz with the excitement of formally clad youth, many with anxious dispositions, all eagerly making last-...
Ashura or the 10th day of Muharram (the first month of the Hijri calendar) is an important day to the Shia Muslims of the world. Imam Husain (R), the grandson of the Holy Prophet (SM) was killed ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/11/tenth-muharram-ashura-bangladesh/
A report arrived to the Pressenza desk on a Blood Group Service Campaign in Rasulbugh Neighborhood, Azimpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 4, 2014. The report told that after restarting a series ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/11/bangladesh-blood-bottles-benefits/
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has asserted that young people are indispensable in the United Nations efforts to “eradicate poverty, contain the spread of disease, combat climate change and a...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/10/launch-un-youth-advisory-bangladesh/
Human Wrongs Watch DHAKA, 4 September 2014 (IRIN)* — Bangladesh announced this week that it will send back over 2,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, stoking concerns about the prospec...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/09/concern-bangladesh-move-repatriate-muslim-rohingyas-myanmar/
With 140 million inhabitants, Bangladesh is one of the world’s most populated countries. It is also one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Cyclones, floods and droughts ha...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/08/bangladesh-crippling-cost-climate-change-adaptation/
The news was heartbreaking for me as the Bangladesh media outlets reported – Mahbubul Alam, former editor of The Independent, passed away in a hospital in Dhaka today (June 6, 2014) at the age ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/06/farewell-celebrated-bangladeshi-editor/
Higher Education and Structural Unemployment: Discovering Possible Alternatives By Niamat Ullah Sarker* With globalization developed through capitalism, a new horizon has been seen in the world o...
The day is observed across the world every year since 1886, commemorating the supreme sacrifices of workers in the United States to establish the rights of eight-hour working day and with renewed...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/05/may-day-bangladesh-workplace-security-issue/
We belong to an age where global distances are decreasing rapidly. To be an active part of the global village, co-operation through exchanging our various diversities is a continuous necessity. D...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/04/multilingualism-bangladesh/
Opening inaugural ceremony of the International Cricket Council’s 2014 ICC T20 World Cup spawned a rumbling reaction among the Bangladeshi masses that showed up on 13th March, 2014 at Bangaba...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/03/bangladeshs-icc-t20-opening-event-absolutely-cricket/
Bangladesh’s economy is characterized by a market economy where decisions regarding investment, production, distribution and consumption are based on supply and demand – apparently! In this s...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/03/bangladesh-monopolizing-economy/
February means festivals at Dhaka University which is the largest and leading university in Bangladesh. Across the entire country Bangladeshi youthfullness is annually rejuvenated by the round of...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/02/festivals-flowering-femininity-dhaka-university/
Bangladesh is now moving towards becoming a medium-income-level economy with almost six percent growth per year. Although having difficulties in the political sector which affects significantly t...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/02/electricity-burden-saviour-developing-bangladesh/
Technology and social relationships: self-destructive weapon under guise of an approach to an affluent life? We are living in an era where technology is booming and at possibly its highest leve...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/02/bangladesh-technology-social-relationships-2/
The shock of child marriage on the lives of girls and boys can be ruinous. It may start a series of children’s health complications, with child mortality, domestic violence, severe poverty cycl...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/01/bangladesh-early-marriage-violence-children/
Far from the man-made political machinations of the city, and with the advent of the winter season, millions of migratory birds of different species seek the warm marshes, forests, and rivers of ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/01/bangladeshs-jahangirnagar-university-sacred-place-migratory-birds/
Bangladesh is in turmoil. 2013 saw protests and violence, making it one of the bloodiest years since its independence. With the highly criticized elections, arrests of political opposition member...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/01/hasina-zia-step-radical-changes-needed-bangladesh/
Again, Bangladesh’s Hindu community is under extreme attack. Following the recent general election, hundreds of Hindus including women and children in Jessore, Gaibandha, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/01/bangladesh-communal-politics-minority-persecution/
Industrialisation bi-products enhance climate change and this impacts most severely people living in coastal regions and especially hits hard those in the less developed economies and the burden ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2014/01/bangladesh-climate-change-impacts-coastal-communities/
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the people of Bangladesh for the enactment of the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) ...
Laura Gottesdiener, September 23, 2013, Exclusive stores in Manhattan, London and Milan are busily stocking shelves with the one-shouldered dresses and Miley Cyrus-esque crop tops that were on di...
Recently, Bangladesh Power Development Board and the National Thermal Power Corporation of India signed a contract to build, under joint venture, the 1320MW Rampal Coal Fired Power Plant near the...
A United Nations expert group today urged global clothing brands to work with Bangladesh, international organizations and civil society to improve working conditions in the country’s garment se...
Responding to articles in the media on Bangladesh and the terrible building collapse and worker deaths, our organisation wants to point out that trade action against Bangladesh will only add to t...
https://www.pressenza.com/2013/05/bangladesh-stop-pointing-in-wrong-directions/
Interview: with the new Consul General for Bangladesh in Hong Kong, M. Sarwar Mahmood; in attendance, Mirana Mahrukh, Consul. The new consul general gave a contextual introduction to Banglades...
https://www.pressenza.com/2013/04/bangladesh-war-trials-ferment-street-protests/
For those of us, who learned about our liberation war of 1971 through history books or from our parents, the 2013’s Shahbag has a different, unique and important meaning. Don’t get me wrong, ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2013/02/why-jamaat-can-and-should-be-banned/
The 2013’s Shahbag has allowed the youth of this country to relive the spirit of 1971, it reflects the hatred of the general mass towards the traitors who participated in the rape of Bangladesh...
https://www.pressenza.com/2013/02/bangladesh-reliving-the-spirit-of-1971/
While thousands of demonstrators continued their agitation and occupation of the streets and in particular the protest hot spot of Dhaka’s Shahbagh Squre intersection, a blogger activist was st...
https://www.pressenza.com/2013/02/bangladesh-blogger-murdered-amid-massive-protests/
From the moment you arrive at the Dhaka airport, it’s clear that the apparel industry is vital to Bangladesh’s economy. Airport walls are lined with posters advertising local garment manufact...
https://www.pressenza.com/2013/01/bangladesh-garment-industry-a-cautious-optimism/