Bangladeshi prime minister wins 4th consecutive term after campaign marred by violence
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won an overwhelming majority in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election after a campaign fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, giving her and her Awami League a fourth consecutive term. While the Election Commission has been slow to…#sheikhhasina #awamileague #electioncommission #jatiyaparty #kazihabibulawal #khaledazia #bangladeshi #bnp #awami #munshiganj (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Sheikh Hasina set for fifth term as PM after Bangladesh election
Crackdown on opposition and other rights abuses attract criticism from US and EU (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Fire in Bangladesh camp leaves nearly 7,000 Rohingya homeless
A fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh in the early hours of Sunday, destroying about 800 shelters and rendering thousands homeless, officials said. Fire service officials and Rohingya volunteers brought the blaze under control around three hours after it hit Camp…#rohingya #camp5 #myanmar #coxbazar #unhcr #unitednations #mosques #mohammadshamsuddouza #muslim (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bangladesh PM to Cruise to Victory in Polls Shunned by Rivals
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bangladesh votes as Hasina seeks'forgiveness,' opposition boycotts
DHAKA -- Bangladesh is holding national polls under heavy security on Sunday as the opposition boycotts the election and businesses brace for the impact. Around 120 million citizens are eligible to vote to elect representatives for 300 parliamentary seats. But while there are nearly 1,900…#dhaka #sheikhhasina #awamileague (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

News Quiz for Jan. 6, 2024
Sheikh Hasina will likely be reelected prime minister of Bangladesh on Sunday—from which party? Per a report by House Democrats, which countries were the biggest spenders at Donald Trump’s properties while he was president? In 2022 the Energy Dept. sold oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.…#democrats #donaldtrumps #energydept #google (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Sheikh Hasina: the Bangladeshi premier determined to retain power
Re-election appears certain but economic strains may test the population’s patience with her autocratic style (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

GIS-based landslide susceptibility mapping using logistic regression, random forest and decision and regression tree models in Chattogram District, Bangladesh - Chowdhury MS, Rahaman MN, Sheikh MS, Sayeid MA, Mahmud KH, Hafsa B.
The frequency of landslides and related economic and environmental damage has increased in recent decades across the hilly areas of the world, no exception is Bangladesh. Considering the first step in landslide disaster management, different methods have b... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Victims of armed conflict in India: psychosocial impact and available support - Sharma V, Sharma V, Arora H, Singh W, Gulati N, Sharma R.
India has been a part of 5 major wars since its independence in 1947 and hosts over 212,413 refugees from Sri Lanka, Tibet and Bangladesh. So, a wide spectrum of trauma survivors, both civilian and military, live in this country and require mental healthca... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Bangladesh Shows the Limits of Biden ’s ‘Democracy Promotion’
Bangladeshi voters head to the polls on Sunday for an election in which the result is all but preordained. Thanks to an opposition party boycott, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the ruling Awami League is poised to win a fourth consecutive term as leader of the Muslim-majority nation of 170…#sheikhhasina #awamileague #muslim #islam #gameofthrones (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Nobel-winning banker behind the microfinance movement faces six months in jail, and supporters think it's politically motivated
The Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty in the country of Bangladesh. Grameen became famous for pioneering the concept of microcredit, granting loans of under $100 to Bangladesh’s rural poor. That helped spark a worldwide…#nobel #muhammadyunus #grameenbank #yunus #nobelpeaceprize #bangladeshi #dhaka #grameentelecom #southasian #sheikhhasina (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bangladesh court sentences Nobel laureate Yunus to 6 months in jail. He denies violating labor laws
A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labor laws FILE- Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus listens to a discussion on poverty at the World Bank Group International Monetary Fund Spring…#nobelpeaceprize #muhammadyunus #filenobelpeaceprize #yunus #dhaka #grameentelecom #merinasultana #bangladeshi #sultana #abdullahalmamun (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bangladeshi court sentences Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to 6 months in prison
Microfinance pioneer is a long and bitter rival of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Psychological help-seeking intention among undergraduate students - Barman TK, Sutradhar AK, Kumar H.
The main goal of the present study was to examine psychological help-seeking intention among undergraduate students. A total of three hundred students were randomly selected from Rajshahi University of Bangladesh to measure the help-seeking intention by... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Rohingya refugees forcibly evicted by students in Indonesia
The attack comes after some 1,500 Rohingya refugees have fled temporary camps in Bangladesh for the province of Aceh in just over a month. Hundreds of students from the Aceh province in western Indonesia on Wednesday have invaded a shelter temporarily housing more than a hundred Rohingya refugees.…#rohingya #aceh #indonesia #afp #rohingyamuslim #myanmar #burma #unitednations #bandaaceh #indonesians (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news