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  • Bangladesh: ‘It felt like I was in a grave’-enforced disappearance and 7 months in prison of photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol0

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    • January 5, 2021

    The Daily Star  January 06, 2021 Finally home, after 53 days of enforced disappearance and 7 months in prison, photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol talks to Zyma Islam of The Daily Star about his ordeal Zyma Islam “I decided not to shave the beard. I’ve just trimmed it a bit, I think I quite like the

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  • Bangladesh: Toxic ships sail in on false papers0

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    • December 19, 2020

    The Daily Star  December 19, 2020 Provision that allows ship-owners to self-certify the waste is up for abuse; environment ministry just not equipped to check toxic materials at scrap-ship yards in Chattogram With serious questions hanging over the authorities’ verification systems, scrap ships like Portland are being dismantled along the Sitakunda beach, littering a vast

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  • India, Pakistan, Bangladesh should be merged: Maharashtra minister0

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    • November 23, 2020

    The Daily Star November 23, 2020 Star Online Report Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik yesterday said that his party — Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) — will welcome BJP’s move “if it creates one country by merging India, Pakistan and Bangladesh,” reports Indian news channel NDTV. “…We have been saying that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh should

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  • Bangladesh: Cash Aid for The Poor: Blighted by graft, partisanship0

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    • November 10, 2020

    The Daily Star November 11, 2020 TIB survey on 1,050 people finds 69pc yet to get anything; 18.9pc bribed to get on the list; around 10pc had to prove political identity Staff Correspondent Taking interviews of 1,050 beneficiaries of the government’s cash assistance for the poor, Transparency International Bangladesh has found that 69 percent were

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  • Myanmar elections reflect a fractured society: Its path to democracy cannot exclude the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities0

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    • November 9, 2020

    The Daily Star November 10, 2020 Supporters of NLD take part in a campaign rally on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar on October 25. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP Via Getty Images Shuprova Tasneem This past week, the world has been transfixed by the high-drama US elections and the soon-to-be ex-President Trump’s temper tantrums, as his

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  • Bangladesh: Sarwar’s abduction: A chilling message for journalists0

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    • November 6, 2020

    The Daily Star  November 05, 2020 Golam Sarwar, who works for a local news portal in Chattogram, was abducted after he published an article about the alleged involvement of a minister’s family in land grabbing. Photo: Collected Badiuzzaman Bay Late in the evening on November 1, 2020, journalist Golam Sarwar, who went missing on October

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  • Terror financing: Pakistan to remain on FATF grey list till Feb 20210

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    • October 23, 2020

    The Daily Star       October 23, 2020 Star Online Report Pakistan will remain on the “grey list” of global terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force till February next year, the inter-governmental body ruled today citing Islamabad’s failure to meet six of the 27 mandates given to check terror funding. Paris-based FATF President Marcus

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  • The Gambia files memorial at ICJ showing Myanmar responsible for genocide against Rohingyas0

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    • October 23, 2020

    The Daily Star  October 23, 2020 Representational image. File photo Star Online Report The Gambia today filed a memorial of more than 500-pages in its lawsuit against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, showing how Myanmar government is responsible for genocide against the Rohingyas. The memorial also includes more than 5000 pages of supporting

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  • Myanmar: Does supporting election justify exclusion of Rohingyas?0

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    • October 20, 2020

    The Daily Star  October 20, 2020 EU-Myanmar Human Rights Dialogue A Rohingya refugee is seen in Balukhali refugee camp at dawn near Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 28, 2018. Photo: Clodagh Kilocyne/ Reuters Kamal Ahmed The European Union, barely three weeks before the general election in Myanmar, held a bilateral dialogue on human rights with the

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  • Reining in the rogue state Rohingyas: Bangladesh and the international community0

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    • October 17, 2020

    The Daily Star October 18, 2020 Rohingya refugees hold up placards during a visit by a UN Security Council team to Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh on 29 April, 2018. Photo: Sam Jahan/Afp C R Abrar It was a blatant charade of epic proportion. On September 29, the minister of the Office of the State

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  • South Asia faces worst ever recession, tipping millions into poverty: World Bank0

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    • October 8, 2020

    The Daily Star  October 09, 2020 A man wearing a protective face mask walks past a labourer resting on a handcart in a closed wholesale market in Kolkata. Photo: Reuters/file Reuters, New Delhi Millions of people in South Asia are being pushed into extreme poverty as the region where a quarter of humanity lives suffers

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  • India’s Onion Dilemma0

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    • September 27, 2020

    The Daily Star  September 27, 2020 An Indian labourer takes a break from unloading sacks of onions from a truck. Photo: San-jay Kanojia/AFP Pallab Bhattacharya When India imposed a ban on onion export on September 14 this year to check its soaring price in the domestic market, the criticism of the government’s action, mainly from

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  • India’s Silenced Parliament0

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    • September 22, 2020

    The Daily Star September 22, 2020 A photo from March 3, 2020, shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) and other politicians during a BJP parliamentary committee meeting at the Parliament House in New Delhi. Photo: AFP Shashi Tharoor After a nearly six-month hiatus, the Indian parliament will reconvene in mid-September at a time of

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  • India: A toxic blend of Bollywood and politics0

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    • September 19, 2020

    The Daily Star       September 19, 2020 Pallab Bhattacharya Seldom has a Bengali actress of Bollywood roiled the politics of three Indian states—Bihar, Maharashtra and West Bengal—for contrasting reasons. That is precisely what is happening after Rhea Chakraborty was sent to jail after being charged in alleged drugs-related cases linked to the death of

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