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A video viewed thousands of times on social media shows the detention of members of a Bangladeshi paramilitary force, ...
Bangladesh’s ‘Village Banker’ Faces Toughest Challenge Yet: Running His Country© KM Asad/Zuma Press ...
Every day, more than 1,500 women and girls are forced to serve the wishes of more than 3,000 men a day for as little as £2 in the village of Daulatdia, home to one of the world's largest brothels.
One person was injured, a chapel, and several houses were ransacked when a mob attacked a predominantly Christian village in northern Bangladesh over a land dispute. Some 50-60 men armed with weapons ...
Followers of a radical Islamic party have been accused of attacking a Hindu village in Bangladesh and vandalizing about 80 houses in a dispute over a Facebook post. The Hefazat-e-Islam supporters used ...
Back in the mid-1990s, before the era of internet, mobile phones and satellite televisions, the government-run terrestrial broadcaster Bangladesh Television (BTV) was the only source of visual ...
Bangladeshi film 'The Salt in Our Waters,' which will play at COP26, is a stark reminder of the issues the event is trying to highlight.
Asia Bangladesh’s ‘Village Banker’ Faces Toughest Challenge Yet: Running His Country The microcredit pioneer is an idealist obsessed with eradicating poverty—and a political novice who ...