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Plastic dependency: The environmental cost of food delivery in Bangladesh
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
Over the last couple of years, cities in Bangladesh have seen a rapid growth in online food delivery services. From local catering houses to global fast food chains, everything is a matter of a tap away. However, the unchecked use of single-use...
Debt, dependence, and the illusion of development: How global economic governance chains Bangladesh to structural injustice
Weekly Blitz
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July 15, 2025
Debt, dependence, and the illusion of development: How global economic governance chains Bangladesh to structural injustice In the first half of 2025, Bangladesh’s economic narrative has oscillated between optimism and anxiety. On the surface, an...
Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN
Al Jazeera
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The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead. The plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could rapidly deteriorate further unless more funding can be secured for critical...
Bangladesh vaccinates over 7.1m girls in programme combatting cervical cancer: Unicef
The Business Standard
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July 15, 2025
Bangladesh has vaccinated over 7.1 million girls since starting its programme in 2023 to combat human papillomavirus (HPV), which is a major cause of cervical cancer, according to a Unicef report. According to new data released by WHO and UNICEF...
Is Bangladesh's Jamaat setting up BNP for a ban before polls?
Firstpost
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July 15, 2025
The once robust political alliance between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) is now showing signs of deep fracture, prompting speculation that Jamaat may be orchestrating a political manoeuvre to isolate, discredit...
Big pharma’s sole focus is on profits
Dawn
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July 14, 2025
IT is a cruel irony of our times that while medical science continues to soar to extraordinary heights, offering hope against once incurable diseases, the very markets that deliver these miracles have become compromised by greed, weak regulation...
150,000 Rohingya Flee To Bangladesh Amid Renewed Myanmar Violence
Scoop
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Saturday, 12 July 2025, 4:41 pm Press Release: UN News As armed clashes intensify and conditions worsen inside Myanmar, thousands continue to cross the border seeking safety in the overcrowded camps of Cox’s Bazar, where nearly one million...
Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury passes away
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
Wed Jul 16, 2025 02:07 AM Last update on: Wed Jul 16, 2025 03:10 AM UNB, Dhaka Wed Jul 16, 2025 02:07 AM Last update on: Wed Jul 16, 2025 03:10 AM Sayeed Hossain Chow-dhury, chairman of HRC Group, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday. His...
Dengue: 375 patients hospitalised in a day
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
Tue Jul 15, 2025 05:48 PM Last update on: Tue Jul 15, 2025 05:50 PM Star Online Report Tue Jul 15, 2025 05:48 PM Last update on: Tue Jul 15, 2025 05:50 PM Currently, 1,210 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at various hospitals At least 375...
Man held over rape of 9-yr-old girl in Mohakhali
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
Wed Jul 16, 2025 01:23 AM Last update on: Wed Jul 16, 2025 03:01 AM Star Report Wed Jul 16, 2025 01:23 AM Last update on: Wed Jul 16, 2025 03:01 AM A man was arrested yesterday in connection with the rape of a nine-year-old girl in Dhaka's...
The hands that stretched to freedom
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
Abu Sayed is no longer just a name. The English department student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) was brutally shot dead by police on this very day a year ago. Martyred on his own campus for protesting a discriminatory quota system, he...
Our society and policy have failed mothers who care differently
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
Caring is beautiful. But when the burden of care disproportionately falls on one person's shoulders, it becomes exhausting. We live in an ecosystem that is neither structured for women nor for people with different needs. For a mother of a child...
Man out on bail after 30 years in jail without trial
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
After spending more than three decades in prison without trial or sentencing, 65-year-old Konu Mia walked out of Habiganj District Jail yesterday morning. A resident of Singhagram village in Lakhai upazila, Konu Mia was released on bail around...
Nigeria, Zimbabwe rank among the world’s 10 most difficult places to live
Business Insider Africa
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July 15, 2025
The annual report, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), measures cities based on stability, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and environment, key indicators that affect overall quality of life. The Global Livability Index...
July 16, 2024: Nationwide mayhem leaves 6 dead
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
July 16, 2024, marked a grim escalation in the quota reform protests as violence swept across Bangladesh, leaving at least six people dead, including three students, and hundreds injured in fierce clashes involving protesters, Chhatra League...
Armed with BJP-gifted Brahmastra, Mamata begins her march to secure a fourth term as CM
The New Indian Express
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The controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls to be conducted in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections next year, the attacks on Bengali-speaking people in many BJP-ruled states, the dubious deportation of Bengali...
Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Warns Study
ScienceAlert
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July 15, 2025
In spite of having plagued humans for millennia, typhoid fever is rarely considered in developed countries today. But this ancient threat is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that...
9-year-old girl raped in Mohakhali
Daily Star
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July 15, 2025
A nine-year-old child was raped behind the National Institute of Cancer Research & Hospital in Dhaka's Mohakhali area on Monday night. She was admitted to a hospital in the capital for examination, police said. Locals noticed the child crying and...
Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath’s Final Show Is the Highest-Grossing Charity Concert of All Time
Billboard
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July 15, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath‘s “Back to the Beginning” raised more money than any charity concert since George Harrison and Ravi Shankar‘s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh popularized the very idea of an all-star benefit show, according to a review...
Harnessing AI to enhance traditional medicine
Daily Star
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July 12, 2025
On 11 July 2025, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) released a new report titled Mapping the Application of Artificial Intelligence in...