カテゴリー: Bangladesh
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After the trauma of losing their spouse and breadwinner to the Sundarbans’ great predator, women are cast out by their superstitious communities. But they are coming together to rebuild their livesNobody saw exactly what happened in the minutes leading…
Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El NiñoMillions of people across South and Southeast Asia are facing sweltering temperatures, with unusually …
Footage from around the world has captured celebrations of Eid al-Fitr as Muslims marked the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with the three-day festival. For many, however, the six-month war in Gaza has cast a shadow on the Islamic holiday Continue…
Researchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase their incomeOwning a pair of reading glasses might help people increase their earnings by a third, according to new research.The study, conducte…
In 2017, a crying Asom Khan became the face of Myanmar’s refugees. Now 15, he has discovered his own passion for photographyHis own sign language of sweeping, dramatised gestures is rarely fully understood by those outside Asom Khan’s closest friends a…
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsiaPhotographs by Farzana HossenIn the small, crowded ward of the Upazila Health …