Akbar Hossain

Jul 16, 2024 | yahoo.com | Akbar Hossain |Anbarasan Ethirajan

Akbar Hossain - BBC News and Anbarasan Ethirajan - BBC NewsJuly 16, 2024 at 8:24 PM·4 min readSchools and universities across Bangladesh have been shut until further notice after six people were killed in protests over quotas in government jobs. University students have been holding rallies for several days against the system of providing reservations in public sector jobs for the children of war heroes, who fought for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Jul 16, 2024 | bbc.com | Akbar Hossain

Deadly unrest over job quotas grips BangladeshBy Akbar Hossain, Anbarasan Ethirajan, BBC NewsEPADhaka saw street fighting this weekSchools and universities across Bangladesh have been shut until further notice after six people were killed in protests over quotas in government jobs.

Sep 13, 2023 | paperity.org | Akbar Hossain

Climatic Change, Jul 2023 The sea level rise (SLR) in the Sundarbans areas is higher than the global-average rate of sea rise, and many studies assume that most of the dry land of the Sundarbans will be inundated by the end of the twenty-first century. This study aims to analyze the amount of dry land that can potentially be inundated by SLR in Sundarbans and the impact under different land cover conditions.

Sep 1, 2023 | msn.com | Akbar Hossain |Kelly Ng

As the new school year begins in Israel today in the shadow of yet another narrowly averted strike of high schools, following marathon negotiations between the government and teachers over salaries, one thing must be made clear: Teachers, who have one of the hardest and most important jobs out there, deserve fair and reasonable wages – but children and parents should not be held hostage in salary negotiations until the eleventh hour.

Sep 1, 2023 | news.nestia.com | Akbar Hossain |Kelly Ng

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Much of the Western world lauds Prof Muhammad Yunus for his pioneering use of microloans By Akbar Hossain & Kelly Ng in Dhaka and Singapore More than 170 global figures have called on Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina to stop the "persecution" of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Prof Yunus - known internationally as the "banker to the poor" - has been slapped with swathes of lawsuits, with several more filed in recent weeks.