Kamran Reza Chowdhury

Mar 19, 2025 | benarnews.org | Kamran Reza Chowdhury

Beijing hopes to earn a slice of the U.S. $5 billion Bangladeshis spend abroad annually on healthcare after New Delhi let go its share when it drastically curtailed visa issuances amid a rift with Dhaka, experts said. Bangladesh and China will discuss expanding cooperation in health tourism and the medical sector during the first official visit to China next week by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, the head of the interim Bangladeshi government, a senior foreign ministry official here said.

Mar 4, 2025 | eco-business.com | Kamran Reza Chowdhury

In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country in the world to ban the production, import, marketing and use of polythene bags, a type of single-use plastic bag. The ban, made through the Bangladesh Environment Conservation (Amendment) Act, was seen as a major environmental milestone. Yet by 2020, per capita plastic consumption had tripled from 3 kg in 2002 to 9 kg, according to a 2021 World Bank study.

Feb 27, 2025 | dialogue.earth | Kamran Reza Chowdhury

In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country in the world to ban the production, import, marketing and use of polythene bags, a type of single-use plastic bag. The ban, made through the Bangladesh Environment Conservation (Amendment) Act, was seen as a major environmental milestone. Yet by 2020, per capita plastic consumption had tripled from 3 kg in 2002 to 9 kg, according to a 2021 World Bank study.

Feb 21, 2025 | benarnews.org | Kamran Reza Chowdhury

The climate for freedom of secular thought in Bangladesh remains bleak a decade after religious zealots murdered blogger Avijit Roy as he left a literary festival in Dhaka, family members, researchers and human rights advocates said. The killing of the Bangladeshi-born American citizen in February 2015 was the first in a spate of murders of secular writers and intellectuals at the hands of Muslim extremists that year and in 2016. “The current atmosphere for secular thought in Bangladesh is absent.

Feb 1, 2025 | benarnews.org | Kamran Reza Chowdhury

Bangladesh’s interim government ordered an “urgent investigation” into the death of a BNP youth leader after a military unit allegedly picked him up and took him into custody. The government, headed by Muhammad Yunus, made the announcement on Saturday, hours after Bangladesh Nationalist Party Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had demanded a probe into the suspicious death of Touhidul Islam, 40, a leader of BNP’s Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal youth wing in Cumilla.