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Muhammad Yunus will return to lead an interim government in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s military on Wednesday said it has accepted Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’ offer to head the interim government in the country. Yunus was appointed as the caretaker Prime Minister after PM Sheikh Hasina’s resignation on Tuesday. Earlier, Bangladesh’s army had refused to deploy its forces to quell protests demanding a change in the government that…
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The hunter-gatherer lifestyle is good for the gut
Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, are developing scientific capabilities to support Diarrheal Disease research at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh. The program allows people from the centre who are coming for six months at a time to come for six months at a time.
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Anything can be seen as a threat if it is art withers in a country
Bangladesh government has denied permission to release ‘Saturday Afternoon’, a film based on the attack on a Dhaka bakery that left 24 people dead. The censor board said it “might tarnish the image of the country” or incite religious unrest. “They didn’t inform us of a specific reason…they only said the film might incite religious…
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A stricken vessel led to the rescues of nearly 200 starving refugees.
The UN has said that it’s investigating reports that at least 20 people died in a boat which left Bangladesh last year. The boat was carrying about 300 people when it disappeared from radar in the Bay of Bengal in March last year. It is thought to have left Bangladesh where over 10 lakh Muslim…
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Avert the water crisis in Bangladesh through better data.
A World Bank team is researching how climate change affects Bangladesh’s water availability. Researchers are trying to develop a model that could show how climate change affects Bangladesh’s water availability. This could improve the flood monitoring and forecast system operated by the Bangladesh Water Development Board. This would be enough to supply about 6% of…