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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh’s interim government amidst political turmoil

By Ragheema Mclean The presidency of Bangladesh has announced that Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus will head an interim government following mass protests that forced longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country. The appointment of Yunus, who is credited with lifting millions out of poverty in Bangladesh, came swiftly after student leaders called for his leadership. The decision was made in a high-stakes meeting with President Mohammed Shahabuddin, […]

7 August 2024

Local

Bangladesh begins COVID vaccination drive for Rohingya refugees

INTERNATIONAL The government of Bangladesh and aid agencies have started vaccinating Rohingya refugees against coronavirus as a surge in cases raises health concerns in the sprawling, cramped camps where more than one million people who fled Myanmar are sheltering. The highly transmissible Delta variant is driving an infection surge across Bangladesh, with about 20,000 infections and 200 deaths recorded so far in Cox’s Bazar district, the southern region bordering Myanmar […]

10 August 2021

International News

Bangladesh to monitor TikTok after girls lured by traffickers

Bangladesh has begun surveillance on people using the TikTok video-sharing platform after security forces busted a trafficking gang that lured girls into the sex trade in neighbouring India using the app, an official said. “A large number of TikTok users suspected of being involved in criminal activities are under close watch,” ANM Imran Khan, spokesman for the crime-fighting Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), said on Wednesday. The monitoring began after eleven […]

10 June 2021

International News

Bangladesh launches all-female police team to fight online abuse

Bangladeshi police has launched an all-female unit to tackle a rise in online abuse and harassment targeting women, the country’s police chief said, as authorities seek to address growing public concern about gender-based violence. Police hope the unit will encourage more women to come forward to report digital abuse, including so-called revenge porn, hacking of their social media accounts and online threats from blackmailers. “We have different teams working with […]

17 November 2020

International News

1st Rohingya in Myanmar tests positive for virus

A Rohingya man in Myanmar tested positive for the novel coronavirus, authorities said on Thursday, the first confirmed case in the persecuted Muslim minority in the country's western Rakhine state. The Rohingya man is being treated at a public hospital in Maungdaw, a town near Myanmar’s western border with neighboring Bangladesh, the Health and Sports Ministry announced. The 38-year-old man was among five Rohingya people who returned to Rakhine from […]

5 June 2020

International News

Cyclone Amphan leaves trail of destruction in Bangladesh, India

A powerful cyclone has hit Bangladesh and eastern India killing at least 20 people and destroying thousands of homes, officials said, leaving authorities struggling to mount relief efforts amid a surging coronavirus outbreak. Authorities began surveying the damage on Thursday after millions spent a sleepless night which saw up to 170 kilometre (105 miles) an hour winds carrying away trees, electricity pylons, walls and roofs, and transformer stations exploding. Millions […]

21 May 2020

International News

First coronavirus case found in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps

The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, according to officials. An ethnic Rohingya refugee and a local person tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokeswoman said on Thursday. It was the first confirmed case in the densely populated camps as humanitarian groups warned the infection could devastate […]

15 May 2020

International News

Bangladesh coast guard rescues 396 Rohingya in drifting boat; 24 dead

At least two dozen ethnic Rohingya died on a ship that drifted for weeks after failing to reach Malaysia, Bangladesh coastguard officials said on Thursday, following the rescue of 396 starving survivors. For years, Rohingya from Myanmar have boarded boats organised by smugglers in the hope of finding refuge in Southeast Asia, usually making voyages during the dry season from November to March, when the waters are calm. A human […]

16 April 2020

International News

Bangladesh hangs killer of founding father Mujibur Rahman

Authorities in Bangladesh have executed a killer of the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, nearly 45 years after the assassination. Abdul Majed, a former military captain, was hanged at the central jail at Keraniganj near the capital, Dhaka, a minute after midnight of Saturday, said Inspector General of Prisons Brigade General AKM Mustafa Kamal Pasha. Majed was arrested in Dhaka on Tuesday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said, adding that the arrest […]

12 April 2020

Bangladesh

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