Bangladesh. The thin blue line (Abak Hussain, Dhaka Tribune, South Asia Monitor)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/the-thin-blue-line/n/20167

Bangladesh. Briarose Marguerite Deirdre D’Silva , Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours (South Asia Monitor)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/briarose-marguerite-deirdre-d-silva-ever-thine-ever-mine-ever-ours/n/20139

Bangladesh. Monsters in our midst (Monswita Bulbuli, South Asia Monitor)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/monsters-in-our-midst/n/20107

Bangladesh. Those men in and around the BNP (Syed Badrul Ahsan, South Asia Monitor)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/those-men-in-and-around-the-bnp/n/20054

Celebrating a steep poverty drop in Bangladesh (The World Bank)

http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/celebrating-steep-poverty-drop-bangladesh

BCIM-EC could be a game changer for Bangladesh (Rupak Bhattacharjee, South Asia Monitor)

Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar-Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) is a sub-regional grouping that seeks to strengthen friendly cooperation among the four member nations and linking South Asia with Southeast and East Asia by establishing multimodal connectivity and harnessing economic complementaries. The four countries have agreed to build road, rail, air and waterways connecting each other, lay power transmission and oil pipelines along the corridor, promote trade and investment, alleviate poverty and enhance people-to-people contacts.

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/bcim-ec-could-be-a-game-changer-for-bangladesh/n/19950

The ugly truth about Bangladesh’s successful attack on poverty (Naomi Hussain, South Asia Monitor)

Apart from our impressive cricket team, spectacular cuisine, and the fact that your clothes were probably made in Bangladesh, the world’s 8th biggest country (by population) punches well below its weight in terms of international recognition.

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/the-ugly-truth-about-bangladesh-s-successful-attack-on-poverty/n/19924

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On their own, Afghan Forces strain to combat Taliban offensives (Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/on-their-own-afghan-forces-strain-to-combat-taliban-offensives/n/19784

Social immobility in Pakistan (Umair Javed)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/social-immobility-in-pakistan/n/19785

Nepal. Heart health promotion: From community level (Abhinav Vaidya)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/heart-health-promotion-from-community-level/n/19787

Bangladesh. A democratic right (Nur E Emroz Alam Tonoy)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/a-democratic-right/n/19786

Cookbook Tells The Story Of Sri Lanka's Civil War Through Food (Vidya Balachander)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/cookbook-tells-the-story-of-sri-lanka-s-civil-war-through-food/n/19788

India. Address the 'new normal' in Kashmir (M.K. Narayanan)

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/address-the-new-normal-in-kashmir/n/19783

Bangladesh's valiant campaign (Manash Ghosh, South Asia Monitor)

Sheikh Hasina and her Government have been battling jihadis within and outside the political system. The Prime Minister’s determination to stamp out extremism has been hailed by world leaders, including India

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/bangladesh-s-valiant-campaign/n/19746

Bangladesh. The curious case of Tahmid (Aqib Md. Shatil, South Asia Monitor)

One should never underestimate Bangladeshi people’s supersonic ability to reach conclusions, sometimes even faster than NASA spaceships, basing on trivial events. And when it comes in the form of video footage or photographs, they never hesitate to harshly comment, no matter how foolish it may sound.

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/the-curious-case-of-tahmid/n/19726

Bangladesh accused of 'kneecapping' opposition members (Al Jazeera)

Government official rejects Human Rights Watch report, saying allegations against security forces are baseless.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/bangladesh-accused-kneecapping-opposition-members-160929110934409.html

The western media and Bangladesh (Nadeem Qadir, South Asia Monitor)

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=17508

Execution of Nizami bodes ill for Bangladesh's future (Talha Ahmad, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/06/execution-nizami-bodes-ill-bangladesh-future-160606122512879.html

World Bank Support Benefits One Million Bangladeshi Poor Farmers (World Bank)

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/05/24/support-benefits-one-million-bangladeshi-poor-farmers

Bangladesh. Cyclone Roanu: Lessons and implications (Pauline Tamesis, South Asia Monitor)

Once again, Bangladesh has demonstrated its resilience to disasters, as global leaders meet, in Istanbul this week, for the UN World Humanitarian Summit.On Saturday afternoon, cyclone Roanu left 24 people dead, and damaged nearly 140,000 homes, in 15 districts. The impact could have been much greater given the chronic vulnerability of the population

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=17181

Bangladesh. Extremism spells danger (Sumit Ganguly, South Asia Monitor)

A spectre is haunting Bangladesh -- the spectre of unbridled, violent religious extremism with attacks on intellectuals, journalists, bloggers, and religious minorities

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=17141

Hasina's challenge: Asserting Bangladesh's secular identity (S. Binodkumar Singh, South Asia Monitor)

On May 11, 2016, Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) amir (chief) Motiur Rahman Nizami, who had masterminded the formation of the ruthless militia Al-Badr that unleashed terror against Bengalis in erstwhile East Pakistan, killed unarmed civilians, raped women and destroyed properties during the Liberation War of 1971, was executed at Dhaka Central Jail. Nizami was sentenced to death on October 29, 2014, by the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) after being found guilty on 8 of the 16 charges brought against him. The four charges which brought with them penalty of death included involvement in the killing of intellectuals; the murder of 450 civilians, and the rape of 30 to 40 women in Bausgari and Demra villages in Pabna district; the killing of 52 people in Dhulaura village in Pabna district; and the killing of 10 persons and rape of three women in Karamja village in Pabna district. He was also sentenced to imprisonment for life on four charges of involvement in the killing of Kasim Uddin and two others in Pabna district; torture and murder of Sohrab Ali of Brishalikha village in Pabna district; torture and killing at Mohammadpur Physical Training Centre in Dhaka city; and killing of freedom fighters Rumi, Bodi, Jewel and Azad at Old MP Hostel in Dhaka city

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=emerging&nid=17132

Lashing out at Bangladesh for Nizami's hanging won't change history (Yasser Latif Hamdani, South Asia Monitor)

On May 11, Bangladesh hanged Motiur Rahman Nizami, the 73-year-old leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He was the leader of the militant group Al-Badr. The searing irony of this saga is that Pakistan’s ruling elite in 1971 outsourced the safeguarding of Pakistani nationalism to unsavoury characters from the Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing when Jamaat-e-Islami itself had opposed tooth and nail the creation of Pakistan just 24 years earlier in 1947

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=17101

The real source of terror in Bangladesh (Willam B Milam, South Asia Monitor)

Some of these attacks have not yet been claimed, but they follow a gruesome pattern: There have been at least 25 violent, sometimes public, killings of religious minorities, secularists and free-speech advocates in Bangladesh since February 2015. A dozen more people have been assaulted in similar ways and survived

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=inthenews&nid=17090

New Results From Bangladesh on How to Delay Child Marriage (Sajeda Amin, CFR)

http://blogs.cfr.org/women-around-the-world/2016/05/17/new-results-from-bangladesh-on-how-to-delay-child-marriage/