Eyamin Sajid
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Jan 22, 2025 |
dailygazette.com | Sabiha Alam |Eyamin Sajid |Munir Uz Zaman
Bangladeshi students braved bullets to overthrow an autocratic government, but six months after the revolution, many say finding a job is proving a harder task than manning the barricades. Dhaka University student Mohammad Rizwan Chowdhury's dreams of ample opportunities for youth have been badly dented, saying he had seen little action from the caretaker government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
yahoo.com | Eyamin Sajid
As deadly wildfires ravaged Los Angeles and destroyed thousands of structures in January 2025, an image of a red-roofed house surrounded by scorched rubble was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it survived the blazes because its owner is Muslim and the Koran was inside. The photo of the unscathed house was in fact taken after fires ripped through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina in August 2023. US media reported at the time that recent renovations may have helped to make it fireproof.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
yahoo.com | Eyamin Sajid
Minorities in Sunni Muslim-majority Bangladesh have encountered a string of attacks after long-time autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina was ousted in August 2024, but a video of a vandalised mosque shared on social media does not show the post-revolution tension. The clip first circulated in news reports in October 2024 about communal violence against Muslims in neighbouring India. "Mosque of Murshidpur Darbar Sharif in Sherpur.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Eyamin Sajid
Months after Bangladesh's autocratic former premier Sheikh Hasina was toppled in a revolution, social media posts falsely claimed US President-elect Donald Trump said in a podcast interview she was still the country's prime minister because she did not resign. The prospect of Hasina's resignation being unlawful was raised when the South Asian nation's largely ceremonial president told local media he had not actually seen her resignation letter before she fled to neighbouring India.
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Nov 8, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Eyamin Sajid
After an outbreak of ethnic violence in a remote border region of southeastern Bangladesh in September 2024, a video was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed an armed tribal group patrolling the area. The same footage was posted on Facebook months before the clashes in the remote Chittagong Hill Tracts region. The person who posted the video in July 2024 told AFP it was shot in Karbi Anglong in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
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