In Bangladesh, attackers send, delete and report Messenger texts sent to journalists and activists to get their Facebook accounts disabled

A patchwork of liberals, clerics and minorities formed an unlikely alliance that outmanoeuvred an organised Islamist push, but their support cannot be taken for granted.

An analysis of fire accidents in Bangladesh reveals a terrifying reality woven into everyday life — of warnings ignored, regulations violated, and lives lost to a preventable pattern of negligence.

To Comfort the Afflicted: Defending Democracy in Bangladesh – The 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award Honors @NetraNews and its Founding Editor-in-Chief Tasneem Khalil. https://stanford.io/4omabxg As…

To Comfort the Afflicted: Defending Democracy in Bangladesh – The 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award Honors Netra News and its Founding Editor-in-Chief Tasneem Khalil. As the maxim goes, public…

Bangladesh’s climate change policy is anodyne, feel-good catchphrases that can help raise funds, but do nothing to save lives or the environment. The country’s survival depends on this changing faster...

Palatine Media, which earlier spread articles by fake journalists about Bangladesh’s central bank governor, refuses to disclose its financiers.

To be Rohingya is to stand at a cruel crossroads: risk death, violence and arrest in pursuit of education, or resign to a life where learning is forbidden.

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Security operations in Bandarban have targeted Bawm civilians, leaving at least 19 dead, including a 13-year-old, women and children in jail, villages deserted, and regular movement under military con...

Security operations in Bandarban have targeted Bawm civilians, leaving at least 19 dead, including a 13-year-old, women and children in jail, villages deserted, and regular movement under military con...

Sponsored by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the 24th annual Shorenstein Journalism Award honors Netra News, Bangladesh's premier independent, non-partisan media…

Netra News investigated 834 killings during Bangladesh’s July 2024 uprising. Our findings reveal the scale and brutality of state violence under Sheikh Hasina.

Netra News’ findings show stark discrepancies between the state’s legal obligations and the conditions at three state-run Children Development Centres (CDC) where children, many without convictions or...

It was the BNP in 2001 who asked for the direct election of women in reserved seats. The party is now opposing the idea.

The border between Bangladesh and India is not just a fence of steel and wire – it is a scar across collective memory, a forgotten chapter written not in ink, but in blood.

Bangladesh’s minorities thrive in courts and government — but the military remains off-limits, a Netra News investigation reveals.

Each piece of clothing sewn tells a story of intense labour. Each tea leaf plucked whispers about unjust pay and the enduring shadows of colonial rule. Every exported item from Bangladesh carries an u...

A Western tech giant cast aside local, original journalism on a story rooted in Bangladesh in favour of an avalanche of divisive coverage from neighbouring India.

No longer a cleric confined to a little-known mosque, Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani returns to public life — this time in the heart of secular Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s women are owed a great debt. The religion-based opposition to reform recommendations highlights the urgent need to start paying it, lest they start collecting by themselves.

Sponsored by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the 24th annual Shorenstein Journalism Award honors Netra News, Bangladesh's premier independent, non-partisan media…

NED partner Netra News received the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award for its fearless reporting and staunch defense of press freedom in Bangladesh.

Human Rights Day in Dhaka, in ten photos.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) denied its helicopters being deployed on crowds were to blame for people’s deaths during July-Aug protests. But a boy’s death suggests otherwise.

By ensuring religious freedom and preventing communalism, Bangladesh can give leadership on secularism in the region where India has failed.

The attack by a group with close ties to India’s ruling party is likely to further strain an already fragile bilateral relationship, which has sharply deteriorated since the fall of Sheikh Hasina.

The US president-elect’s fondness for Modi must not be an obstacle to Bangladesh finding ways to work with the US as it rebuilds and reforms.

The arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das in Bangladesh sparked tensions and misinformation, with international media missteps worsening the crisis.