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Oct 10, 2024 | 
nd-aktuell.de | Dominik Müller
Bangladesch hat viele Probleme. Die Erderwärmung führt zu Überschwemmungen, im Sommer steigen die Temperaturen auf über 40 Grad, das Meer frisst immer mehr Land, und das Salzwasser hinterlässt unfruchtbare Böden sowie versalzene Flussmündungen. Zyklone, die immer heftiger werden und immer häufiger auftreten, verwüsten ganze Landstriche. Unzählige Menschen verlieren ihre Lebensgrundlage. In der Hauptstadt Dhaka kommen jeden Tag mehr als 1000 Binnenflüchtlinge an.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Rafiqul Islam Montu |Dominik Müller |Mohammad Luqman
Classes have been cancelled across Bangladesh due to searing heat, but high school student Mohua Akter Nur found the soaring temperatures at home left her in no state for homework. Millions of pupils were told to stay home this week as the South Asian nation swelters through one of its worst heatwaves on record, with temperatures 4-5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average. Few schools in the capital Dhaka have air conditioning, and trying to conduct classes would have been futile.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Dominik Müller |Mohammad Luqman |Marian Brehmer
General election in Modi's India · 16.04.2024 With elections on 19 April, India looks set to re-elect Narendra Modi's BJP party, greenlighting an ongoing process of Hinduisation on the subcontinent. The persecution of Muslims and other minorities will intensify.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Dominik Müller |Sonja Hegasy |Ashoka Mody |Richard Marcus
India's ruling party on Sunday pledged to introduce a new common civil code for the country, calling it a crucial step for gender equality, a week before a general election in the world's most populous nation. Nearly a billion Indians will vote to elect a new government in six-week-long parliamentary polls starting on 19 April, the largest democratic exercise in the world.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
newagebd.net | Dominik Müller
THE first states will start voting in India’s general election on April 19. All votes are expected to be counted by June 4. The official line is that the economy is flourishing and growth has helped lift many Indians out of poverty. Farmers and agricultural workers are not, however, among those who benefit from the policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Dominik Müller |Richard Marcus |Sruti Bala |Arfa Khanum Sherwani
A third term for Hindu nationalism? Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – pictured here during an election campaign event in West Bengal in mid March – and his Bharatiya Janata Party have ruled India with an absolute majority since 2014 (image: Subrata Goswami/DW) As the world's largest democracy gets ready to vote in the upcoming general election, Narendra Modi and his BJP look set to win a third consecutive term in power.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Shashi Tharoor |Dominik Müller
Death has not extinguished the decades-long rivalry between two Indian leaders: both have now seemingly risen from the grave, in digital form, to rally their supporters ahead of national elections. Political parties are harnessing powerful artificial intelligence tools to make deepfakes, reproducing famous faces and voices in ways that often appear authentic.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Sonja Hegasy |Mira Mandal |Arfa Khanum Sherwani |Dominik Müller
A powerful Hindu group said several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just days after a huge temple was inaugurated on the site of a razed mosque.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Mohammad Luqman |Arfa Khanum Sherwani |Dominik Müller |Mira Mandal
Thousands of Indians danced in the streets, wearing saffron garments and waving saffron flags as they chanted religious slogans ahead of Monday's opening of a grand temple to the Hindu god Lord Ram on a site they believe to be his birthplace. The ceremony in the northern city of Ayodhya is being projected as a historic event for the Hindu majority of the world's most populous nation, as Prime Minister Narenda Modi's party bids for a rare third term in elections due by May.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
qantara.de | Rafiqul Islam Montu |Dominik Müller |Marian Brehmer
Nurjahan Begum is sitting on a plastic chair in front of her house in a densely populated settlement on the banks of Karnaphuli river in Chittagong. More than half of the chair is submerged in water. Today, hundreds of families in Begum's neighbourhood were once more trapped in floodwater for nearly five hours. These days, the daily life of many people in Bangladesh's second largest city revolves around the tides and the rise and fall of the flooding. The sea is 16 kilometres away.
