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Strength of PM’s crackdown shows her nervousness and that climate of fear is breaking down, say criticsHasan still has the metal pellets Bangladesh police fired at him lodged deep in his bones. Fearful he will join the growing ranks of those thrown beh…
続きを読むInitially peaceful demonstrations turned violent last week with more than 150 dead and thousands injuredStudent activists in Bangladesh have alleged they were abducted by police and tortured for their role in the protests that have swept the country ov…
続きを読むThe country’s supreme court scaled back quotas on civil service jobs, which previously allocated 30% to veterans and relatives of those who fought in the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence, after widespread student-led protests and violent clashes in …
続きを読むCourt overturns ruling reserving 30% of government jobs for independence war veterans and their relatives Bangladesh’s top court has scaled back the quotas on government jobs that led to widespread student-led protests and violent clashes that killed m…
続きを読むCitizens confined to homes with no internet access as student-led protests lead to deadly clashes with authoritiesPolice in Bangladesh have been granted “shoot-on-sight” orders and a nationwide curfew has been imposed as student-led protests continue t…
続きを読むArmy to be deployed to keep order after demonstrators free hundreds of prisoners and country is hit by serious unrestThe Bangladeshi government has declared a national curfew and announced plans to deploy the army to tackle the country’s worst unrest i…
続きを読むIncensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas Bangladeshi students have set fire to the state broadcaster’s building a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, appeared on the network…
続きを読むPolice fire teargas at university campuses as students demand end to discriminatory job quotasAt least two people died and thousands were injured after police fired teargas into crowds of protesting students, and paramilitary forces were deployed acros…
続きを読むMisinformation and online rumours stoke fear of the venomous species, which has led to snakes being killed indiscriminately, warn conservationistsAmin Mandol was harvesting peanuts from a char – a bank of sand and silt – in the Padma, the lower part of…
続きを読むGovernment opens hundreds of shelters for displaced people as heavy rains cause rivers to burst their banksThe death toll from floods in Bangladesh this week has risen to eight, leaving more than two million affected after heavy rains caused major rive…
続きを読むMuhammad Yunus tells the Guardian charges against him are politically motivated, and expresses concern about personal attacks from politiciansThe Nobel peace laureate and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has said that years of fighting what he calls…
続きを読むStudy confirms huge concentrations of potentially dangerous PFAS in rivers, lakes and taps in DhakaRivers, lakes and tap water in areas of Bangladesh that host garment factories are swarming with dangerous levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, some with…
続きを読むHundreds of thousands of people evacuated while red alerts issued for unrelenting heat across north-western India and PakistanDuring the early hours of Saturday morning, an area of low pressure over the east-central Bay of Bengal intensified, and has b…
続きを読むKidney disease is on the rise in coastal communities, where some have no choice but to drink and cook with contaminated waterShadows dance across large, concrete chambers while the sound of dripping water echoes in the distance. A rusty metal staircase…
続きを読むGovernments issue health warnings as schools shut and crops fail, with fears that worse is to come as heatwave tightens gripExtreme heat has gripped much of south and south-east Asia over recent weeks, killing dozens of people, forcing millions of stud…
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