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Stampede at Maymensing clothes handout kills 25

At least 25 people have been killed in a stampede during a handout of free clothes in the northern Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh, police said. The stampede erupted on Friday when hundreds of people tried to force their way into a factory compound through a small gate after massing outside the building before dawn, local police chiefs told the AFP news agency. [caption id="attachment_18023" align="alignright" width="643"]-Mymensing Stampede Photo Courtesy: Prothom Alo[/caption] “We have so far recovered 23 bodies. Most of the dead are p...

Food for Hungry makes lasting impact in Bangladesh

“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” That’s a philosophy Food for the Hungry follows in their various programs, and so far, they’ve been proven right. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a community called Dumni has been continuing the work started by FH five years ago, including various savings and care programs. Since 2010, when the community was graduated from the program, locals have been able to sustain and expand each program within the community. food for hungryCurrently there are 43 ...

Flash floods, deadly landslides leave thousands stranded

Since 24 June, torrential rains in Bangladesh have set off flash floods and landslides in the low-lying areas in the south-eastern districts of Cox’ Bazar, Bandarban and Chittagong. The floods drowned hundreds of villages and killed at least 19 people, stranding over 200,000 according to the situation report published by the government’s Disaster Management Information Centre on June 28. The affected are facing a shortage of food supply, safe drinking water and are at the risk of being affected by water-borne diseases. [caption id="attachment_17633" align="alignleft" width="300"]

Form commission to set house rent: HC

The High Court (HC) today asked the concerned authorities to form high-powered commission to set house rent and resolving disputes between house owners and their tenants. The court ordered to form a seven-member commission within six months, with a jurist nominated by the Law Ministry as its chief, reports BSS. high courtThe HC division bench comprising Justice Mohammad Bazlur Rahman and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus passed the order acting on a writ petition filed by rights body Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB). Cabinet secret...

Child brides face a grim reality in Bangladesh

Three years ago, when the Jamuna River wiped away their home for the fifth time, Momin Ullah and Rahima Begum could see only one option to reduce the family’s burden of poverty and to secure the future of their eldest daughter Nadia: marry her off at the age of 14. [caption id="attachment_17502" align="alignleft" width="300"]child bride The driving factors behind child marriages in Bangladesh include poverty, natural disasters, lack of access to education, social pressure, stalking, harassment and dowry (Photo by Stephan Uttom)[/caption] “The ...

Rohingyas fear exile to remote, flood-prone island

Mohammed Islam is a Rohingya Muslim who has lived in a refugee camp in Bangladesh since age 9, after his family fled religious tension in his home country of Burma, also known as Myanmar. His life is one of uncertainty coupled with despair, which has deepened in recent weeks because of a Bangladesh government proposal to move 32,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island that swamps at high tide. “We don’t want to die,” he said in an interview. “We are already persecuted; we don’t want to suffer more.” [caption id="attachment_17414" align="alignleft" width="300"]
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