Asia Bangladesh Prisoners in Bangladesh legally earn Tk2, € 1 cent, per day for their labour: so low that it undermines efforts to rehabilitate inmates through meaningful work; the inspector general of prisons raised the issue amid reforms in the prison employment system
Asia Bangladesh A coalition of parties and organisations under the banner of 'Anti-Imperialist Patriotic People' has begun a road march from Dhaka to Chattogram to protest foreign control of ports and other issues centred on national sovereignty and anti-imperialism
Asia Bangladesh Following the railway authorities, the Dhaka Mass Transit Company asked passengers to wear masks to avoid Covid infection, amid a surge of cases in many areas of the country, including river resorts crowded for Eid holidays
Asia Bangladesh Supporters of BNP leader Ishraque Hossain and a section of Dhaka South City Corporation employees continued the sit-in they began on 13 May in front of DSCC headquarters, Nagar Bhaban, demanding that he be formally appointed as mayor without further delay
Asia Bangladesh Bangladesh has restored "except Israel" on passports, thus barring citizens from travelling there; the phrase "valid for all countries except Israel" was printed on Bangladeshi passports for decades and removed in the later years of ex PM Sheikh Hasina
Asia Bangladesh 33 fishers, including six women, were rescued from a den of pirates from a deep jungle in the Sundarbans: they were allegedly abducted for ransom days ago; the Coast Guard also recovered 16 fishing boats from the den but no pirate could be detained
Asia Bangladesh India canceled the long-standing transshipment facility that allowed Bangladesh to send export goods to third countries on the same day the US imposed new tariffs, raising great concern among Bangladeshi businessmen and economists
Asia Bangladesh The UN World Food Programme has reversed its decision to reduce food aid for the Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, following concerns about the impact of the cut
Asia Bangladesh The Bangladesh police have launched a hotline at police headquarters to promptly address incidents of violence against women; the numbers are 01320002001, 01320002002 and 0132000222
Asia Bangladesh The interim government's information advisor and one of the main leaders of the student movement, Nahid Islam, resigned from the cabinet to launch a new political party organized by activists of the July uprising
Asia Bangladesh On the night of Saturday to Sunday, security forces arrested over 1.300 persons in the frame of the violent anti-government protests that have been going on for some time within the country
Asia Bangladesh The country will receive 300.000 tonnes of rice from India under a new agreement, despite strained relations between the two countries following the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August last year
Asia Bangladesh Bangladesh risks a return to the rights violations that occurred under the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unless a robust reform is initiated, Human Rights Watch warned