Biswanath News

Smuggled footage from daughter of sheikh says she is hostage in villa surrounded by police

Five seafarers are stuck in limbo on a beached tanker after a long, terrifying ordeal of abandonment

Just discovered this article written by Katy Gardener and Zahir Ahmed from the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka. It is quite interesting as it discusses migration and

Natural disaster compounded by the collapse of a lucrative export during the pandemic has thrust people into poverty

From the coup in Myanmar to the autocratic regimes in China and Russia, western values are under increasing threat

A federal court judge says it’s ‘highly desirable’ to have a senior lawyer on the case which could lead to the release of more than 100 detainees

Global-Migrate accused of promoting access to travel document without the government’s authority, although advertisements ‘not unlawful in themselves’

Exploitation runs deep in the global economy. Only political change and better labour laws can root this out

Germany warns new variants are set to spread; Israel to keep borders closed despite easing lockdown

• Oxford vaccine almost as effective against Kent variant, trials suggest
• Von der Leyen: UK is Covid vaccine ‘speedboat’ while EU is ‘tanker’
• ‘Pandemic burnout’ on rise as latest Covid lockdowns take toll
• US records more than 5,000 Covid deaths in a day after audit
• See all our coronavirus coverage

With Australia’s borders all but closed, many young people who long dreamed of an antipodean education are going elsewhere

Whole communities supported by overseas work are at risk of extreme poverty after the pandemic forced thousands home

• Coronavirus – latest updates
• Read more in the series: The return of extreme poverty

Decreased flows caused by water-hungry neighbours, especially India, are damaging river communities

• All photographs by Kaamil Ahmed

Biswanath 8UK an organisation dedicated to working for the habitants of Biswanath held a welcome event for current Biswanath Upazila Chairman SM Nunu Miah and previous Biswanath Upazila Chairman Mohibbur

A UK registered charity called Vision for Bangladesh is helping the blind to see by funding simple and effective eye treatments in Bangladesh for children whose parents are poor and

Biswanath 8UK an organisation dedicated to working for the habitants of Biswanath held a Fundraising dinner party for disabled people on Monday 1st July 2019 at Impression Events Venue in

According to the Guardian Bangladeshi authorities have promised to drive illegal chemical factories out of the capital, Dhaka, as they face questions over a massive fire that killed at least

Biswanath 8UK an organisation dedicated to working for the habitants of Biswanath held an EC meeting on Monday 18th February 2019 at Annando Mahal Restaurant in Luton. This meeting was

Biswanath 8UK an organisation dedicated to working for the habitants of Biswanath hosted a welcome event for Advocate Alamgir Chairman of Ramapasha Union and all their members and other Biswanathi

Finally dredging has started in the section of Basheay River flowing through Biswanath Bazaar. Most of the dredging before and after the Bazaar has already been completed but due to

In December 2017 my family and I took a direct flight from Heathrow to Sylhet on a Biman Bangladesh Airline flight. At Heathrow Airport the flight schedule clearly showed the