B8Admin, Author at Biswanath News

Coronavirus live news: variant first found in UK now accounts for 6% of German cases; Israel to ease lockdown

5th February 2021 B8Admin

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

International

International students locked out of Australia by pandemic switch to UK and US

4th February 2021 B8Admin

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

Education

‘Back empty-handed’: Bangladeshis cut off from jobs abroad face rising poverty

4th February 2021 B8Admin

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

Bangladesh

‘The river is our home’: Bangladeshi boatmen mourn their receding waters

28th January 2020 B8Admin

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

• All photographs by Kaamil Ahmed

Sylhet

‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out

21st December 2019 B8Admin

Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independence

Bangladesh

The Bangladeshi crab farmers battling climate crisis – and pirates

21st December 2019 B8Admin

With rising seas swallowing their land and kidnappings a regular hazard, families scraping a living farming crab and shrimp in one of the world’s largest mangrove forests are fighting to survive

Bangladesh

The rise and rise of Bangladesh – but is life getting any better?

21st December 2019 B8Admin

The country has undergone an economic miracle in recent years, albeit at huge cost to its garment workers. But things are finally starting to improve for them

Bangladesh

Biswanath 8UK Fundraising Dinner party for Disabled people

2nd July 2019 B8Admin

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 London. This meeting was attended by Monir Khan (Chairman), Sajjadur Rahman (Vice Chairman), Abdul Majid (Vice Chairman), Azad Khan (Vice Chairman), S.I Khan (Secretary), MD Nanu Miah (Treasurer), Dr M