Chad and Bangladesh were the world’s most polluted countries in 2024, with average smog levels more than 15 times higher than WHO guidelines, according to figures compiled by Swiss air quality monitoring firm IQAir. Only Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Estonia and Iceland made the grade, IQAir said. Significant data gaps, especially in […]
The two teams will look to close out their campaign on a high by winning the dead rubber at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh squads arrived at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, however, ground staff covered the pitch while the outfield was also covered due to heavy rain. Defending champions Pakistan crashed out […]
The new Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, or Democratic Student Council, includes key organizers from the powerful Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group that spearheaded the uprising that overthrew iron-fisted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August. Politics in Bangladesh are notoriously fractious and other students then accused them of undermining the revolution. Disputes over over-representation led to […]
The student group is finalising plans to launch the new party during an event likely on Wednesday, said the sources who did not want to be named as they are not authorized to speak to the media. Nahid Islam, a student leader and adviser to the interim government that took charge of Bangladesh after Hasina’s […]
Tuesday afternoon’s clashes began after the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) sought to recruit students at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in the country’s southwest. That sparked a confrontation with campus members of Students Against Discrimination, a protest group that led the uprising that ousted autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina last […]
Before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was toppled in a student-led movement last August, her government cracked down on protesters and others, including “hundreds of extrajudicial killings”, the United Nations said. The UN rights office said it had “reasonable grounds to believe that the crimes against humanity of murder, torture, imprisonment and infliction of other inhumane […]
Adani, which signed a 25-year contract under former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2017, has been supplying power from its $2 billion plant in India’s Jharkhand state. The plant, with two units each of 800 megawatts capacity, sells exclusively to Bangladesh. The Indian company halved supply to Bangladesh on October 31 due to payment delays […]
Hasina fled to India last year following violent protests that killed more than 1,000 people. In an online address on Wednesday, Sheikh Hasina called on her supporters to stand against the interim government in Bangladesh, accusing it of seizing power unconstitutionally. Thousands of protesters gathered in Dhaka before Hasina’s address and, an in effort to […]
Witnesses said several thousand protesters, some armed with sticks, hammers, and other tools, gathered around the historic house and independence monument, while others brought a crane and excavator to demolish the building. The rally was organized alongside a broader call, dubbed “Bulldozer Procession”, to disrupt Hasina’s scheduled 9 p.m. online address on Wednesday. Protesters, many […]
Yunus, 84, an economist and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, took charge of the South Asian country’s interim government in August after Hasina was forced to flee to neighboring India following weeks of violent protests. Hasina has been credited with turning around the economy and the country’s massive garments industry during her 15 years […]
