Chief Advisor and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Friday declared Bangladesh a “great nation” that will no longer live “under anyone’s thumb,” saying the country’s unity and reform efforts have restored its dignity on the world stage.
Chief Advisor and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Friday outlined a long-term vision for Bangladesh’s economy built on what he called two unmatched national assets: its youth and the Bay of Bengal. “Half the people are below the age of 27,” Yunus said during the signing of the July Charter in Dhaka. “This is our […]
Nobel laureate and Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Friday declared the signing of Bangladesh’s July Charter a “new birth” for the nation, describing it as a turning point from turmoil to unity. “Through this signing, we have initiated a new Bangladesh,” Yunus said in a nationally televised address. “We discarded all the old ways of […]
This speech was delivered by Muhammad Yunus on October 17, 2025 outside the Bangladesh National Parliament. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful My dear countrymen, wherever you are in Bangladesh, in the fields and farms, in the cities, towns, and marketplaces, those who are watching us today on this great […]
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, now serving as Bangladesh’s chief adviser, said the nation has entered a new era of dignity and self-reliance. “We are not a nation that survives on anyone’s charity or mercy. We walk with our heads held high,” he said at a national ceremony at the Bangladesh Parliament, marking the […]
The Trump Organization is rapidly expanding in India, its largest foreign market, even as several of its local partners face criminal and regulatory investigations, The Wall Street Journal reported. In April, Eric Trump announced a new 51-story luxury tower in Gurugram, near New Delhi, that sold out within hours. The project’s developers, the Bansal family […]
A new study suggests that advanced machine learning models could help Bangladesh predict dengue outbreaks and mount faster responses, with temperature emerging as the most critical warning signal. Researchers from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Comilla University compared several forecasting models using data from January 2022 to December […]
Bangladesh’s failure to protect its sanitation workers is compounding gender, caste, and economic inequalities amid the global climate crisis, Amnesty International said Thursday. In a new report, Left Behind in the Storm: Dalit Women Sanitation Workers and the Fight for Water and Dignity, Amnesty said Dalit women in the coastal districts of Khulna and Satkhira […]
Three Bangladeshi men were found dead in India’s Tripura state after reportedly being attacked by local residents, officials said Wednesday. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said the bodies were recovered from the Vidyabil area of Khowai district in Tripura. The deceased were identified as Jewel Mia, 32, of Alinagar village; Pati Mia, 45, of Basulla village; […]
Netra News, an independent investigative media organization focused on Bangladesh, has received Stanford University’s 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award for its reporting during the country’s 2024 pro-democracy uprising. The award, presented by Stanford’s Asia-Pacific Research Center, honors journalists whose work deepens understanding of Asia while advancing press freedom. Founding editor-in-chief Tasneem Khalil accepted the $10,000 prize […]
