Bangladesh
Bangladesh (, Bengali: বাংলাদেশ, pronounced [ˈbaŋlaˌdeʃ] (listen)), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people. In terms of landmass, Bangladesh ranks 92nd, spanning 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi), making it one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, Myanmar to the southeast, and the Bay of Bengal to the south. It is narrowly separated from Nepal and Bhutan by the Siliguri Corridor, and from China …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 June 2024 English
This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition …
elections, including in major economies such as Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan … the most are Rwanda (-3.8 percentage points), Bangladesh (-3.3 percentage points), Lao PDR (-3.3 percentage … are also negative shifts of over 20 places: Bangladesh (-40, ranked 99th), Lao PDR (-35, ranked 89th) … 0.693 █ - -3 98 Lesotho 0.691 █ -0.011 -16 99 Bangladesh 0.689 █ -0.033 -40 100 Indonesia 0.686 █ -0.011 … Congo, Dem. Rep. Botswana Guyana New Zealand Bangladesh India Liberia Norway Pakistan Algeria Botswana …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 May 2024 English
This report was published in May 2024 by Access Now for the #KeepItOn campaign which promotes the end of internet shutdowns. The report is authored by Zach Rosson, Felicia Anthonio, …
Iraq: 6 Azerbaijan: 5 Ethiopia: 4 Senegal: 4 Bangladesh: 3 Russia: 3 Jordan: 3 Libya: 3 China: 2 Guinea: … similar commitments from authorities in Bangladesh to ensure people had access to open and … k down on dissent 63 times in 15 countries: Bangladesh, Cuba, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, India, Iran … Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Türkiye and UAE Bangladesh, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan and … very year since we began recording in 2016. Bangladesh, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan, and Yemen …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
......................................... 20 Bangladesh ........................................ … 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Bangladesh Pakistan India Tajikistan Burkina Faso Iraq United … order 1. New Delhi, India (92.7) 2. Dakha, Bangladesh (80.2) 3. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (46.6) 4 … the world are hosted in this region, including Bangladesh, India, Tajikistan, and Pakistan. In addition … northern India, eastern Pakistan, and parts of Bangladesh. Pollutants generated in the region combine …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 February 2024 English
This paper was published in the open-access scientific journal Heliyon, on February 18, 2024. It was written by Khaiwal Ravindra from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh; …
emerging countries like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, etc., have reported many heat-related deaths …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 January 2024 English
‘Them belly Full (but we hungry)’: Food rights struggles in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Mozambique …
Full (but we hungry)’: Food rights struggles in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Mozambique …
1 January 2024
three-wheeled passenger vehicle that is pulled by one person. It is a recognized feature of Dhaka and Bangladesh as a whole. Traditionally made by hand by a small group of craftsmen, almost every part of a rickshaw …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Since the year 2020, the five richest men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people have become poorer. Published by Oxfam International, …
demand an increase in minimum wages in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 31 October 2023. Photo by Kazi Salahuddin … non- government, women-headed organization in Bangladesh. Working since 1991, we are still marching on … equality. The minimum wage for garment workers in Bangladesh has remained unchanged since 2019 at Tk. 8,000 … of the forum and has held dialogues with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers Export Association (BGMEA) … exploit women in Global South countries such as Bangladesh. The garments they sew during long hours in …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
This study was published by the Centre for Education and Communication, a resource centre based in New Delhi. It was released in December 2023. The research was funded by Rosa …
entrepreneurs, brands and retailers, in India, Bangladesh, East and west Africa, and South East Asia…as … cent, whereby they lost the competitive edge to Bangladesh, Viet- nam and China. The ZLD efforts are not … levels of rural garment workers in India and Bangladesh will be very different from the other sections … ahead, here it is looked as a waste of money. Bangladesh has 200 Green certified factories, globally …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 November 2023 English
This report published on November 28, 2023, by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and magazine Down to Earth (DTE), sheds light on extreme weather patterns in India. It …
states. These humid heatwaves over India and Bangladesh during April were made 30 times more likely … heatwave events are expected to affect India and Bangladesh once every five years and would have a heat index … made the April 2023 heat wave across India and Bangladesh 30 times more likely ” Extreme humid heat in …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
have picked a small region of eastern India and Bangladesh. We will look back at fragments of history around … Bengal and Assam in India, while the rest is in Bangladesh. The rivers in the Bengal Delta don’t follow … Padma belonged to East Pakistan then and is in Bangladesh now, while the Bhagirathi-Hooghly is in India … controlled Tibet, some in India, and the rest in Bangladesh. It flows eastwards in the westernmost part … name of the Brahmaputra. And after it enters Bangladesh, it is known as the Jomuna. The Jomuna flows …