Bangladesh

“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 Bangladesh, as she noted the news relating to the…

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 there with sand-laden trucks. Independent observers opine it was only to…

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 expressed then was: “to support the process of interconnection…

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 finally became independent after a nine-month bloody war on 16 December 1971.…

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 says: ### Three buses were set on fire in the capital city…

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. Every day people want to know when they will get…

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 become ever more entrenched. The latest period of political…

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 and fire bomb attacks. By Shamsul Hoque Basunia, in…

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 travelling in Bangladesh – when another related item…

“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 be allowed to grow into whoever…