カテゴリー: Bangladesh
Decreased flows caused by water-hungry neighbours, especially India, are damaging river communities• All photographs by Kaamil AhmedHolding his downturned palm level with his waist, Musana Robi Das indicates how tall he was when he started working on B…
Farmers in delta lowlands are discovering innovative answers to floods and stormsIn the scorching farmlands of south-west Bangladesh, a single coconut tree stands as a barometer of climate change.Dulal Mondal, 70, a farmer, points halfway up the tree a…
The Bangladeshi government is making life hard for young people trying to document levels of hardship in the world’s largest refugee settlementFor Azimul Hassan, 19, life before he entered the world’s largest refugee settlement was always busy.He would…
I have been recording testimonies of these now-elderly pioneers, who never thought they would have to live through such hostility again“I don’t know what it is to be British any more.” This from a man who is a professor at a prominent university and pa…
Bill will allow refugees from nearby states to become Indian but not if they are MuslimsIndian lawmakers have approved legislation granting citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – but not if they are Muslim. Critics of the g…
Region crippled by general strike over legislation making it easier for some other refugees to stay in countryProtesters in north-east India have set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers …
With rape and domestic abuse endemic in the lawless refugee camp, safe spaces have been set up to help the women affectedIn a small, dark hut within the world’s largest refugee settlement, a fan hums quietly as Faizal speaks. He says that last month hi…
Islamist militants found guilty of planning attack on cafe in July 2016 that killed 22 peopleA Bangladesh court has handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group for plotting an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mo…
Even the prime minister has chopped the vegetable out of her official menu after monsoon caused Indian crop failureBangladesh has been forced to import planeloads of onions as the price of the cooking staple soared to record highs, an official said, wi…
Even the prime minister has chopped the vegetable out of her official menu after monsoon caused Indian crop failureBangladesh has been forced to import planeloads of onions as the price of the cooking staple soared to record highs, an official said, wi…
Twelve reported dead in India and eight in Bangladesh as storm uproots trees and floods croplandsTwenty people have died and more than two million others have spent a night huddled in storm shelters after Cyclone Bulbul hit the coasts of India and Ban…
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independenceIn 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sister…
With citizenship in Myanmar still denied, Rohingya refugees face a stark choice between life under severe restrictions in Bangladesh and moving to an isolated islandLife in the world’s largest refugee camp has grown harder in the past few months. Moham…
Exclusive: Upmarket brand, which has just launched UN partnership, opens investigation as female labourers in Bangladesh factory say they suffer regular abuseLululemon, an athleisure brand whose £88 leggings are worn by celebrities and Instagram influe…
Threat comes after controversial project in border state that forced 33 million residents to prove their heritageIndia’s home affairs minister has said his government “will not allow a single illegal immigrant to stay” amid outcry over a citizenship re…