Saif Hasnat
Cricket Correspondent at United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
Independent Reporter at The New York Times
Journalist | Cricket at @UNBnewsroom, Bangladesh at @NYTimes (independently) | Seen in @HuffPost, @TheQuint | Insta/Threads: saif.hasnat
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
straitstimes.com | Mujib Mashal |Pamodi Waravita |Saif Hasnat
COLOMBO/DHAKA - Through Covid-19, political chaos, and economic disarray, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh kept one industry central to their hopes of prosperity afloat: the manufacturing of ready-made garments, with the United States as their main market. Then came President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The two countries are reeling after Sri Lanka was hit with 44 per cent tariffs and Bangladesh subjected to 37 per cent levies.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Mujib Mashal |Pamodi Waravita |Saif Hasnat
Targeting the manufacturers not only upends the economies of these nations, but also adds to the burden of U.S. companies, analysts warned. William Blair said merchandise costs could go up by about 30 percent and American consumers may ultimately feel the pinch. Bangladesh sends more than $7bn of clothing to the U.S. every year. The country's garment manufacturing industry makes up 80 percent of its total exports and employs more than four million people, mostly women.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraphindia.com | Mujib Mashal |Saif Hasnat
As Bangladesh tries to rebuild its democracy and chart a new future for its 175 million people, a streak of Islamist extremism that had long lurked beneath the country’s secular facade is bubbling to the surface Mujib Mashal, Saif Hasnat Published 02.04.25, 06:46 AM Supporters of the Hizb ut-Tahrir, a banned Islamist group, during a march in Dhaka on March 7 calling for an Islamic caliphate in Dhaka.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Mujib Mashal |Saif Hasnat
The extremists began by asserting control over women's bodies. In the political vacuum that has emerged after the overthrow of Bangladesh's authoritarian leader, religious fundamentalists in one town declared that young women could no longer play soccer. In another, they forced the police to free a man who had harassed a woman for not covering her hair in public, then draped him in garlands of flowers. More brazen calls followed.
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1 month ago |
businessandamerica.com | Saif Hasnat
Some of the students whose protests kick-started a revolution in Bangladesh last year and prompted the ouster of the troubled country’s authoritarian leader, Sheikh Hasina, are now taking a more conventional route to pursue their vision for the country: They have started a political party. At a rally in Dhaka, the capital, on Friday, some of the former student leaders announced the creation of the National Citizens Party, which they said would pursue a “centrist” political ideology.
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