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Reportage, debate, analysis — Netra News is an award-winning non-profit platform of public interest journalism focusing on #Bangladesh.
🏆✨ Netra News has been awarded the prestigious Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2025 by Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/banglades…
OPINION — “In steering clear of dealing with it incidentally, the Yunus administration has failed to recognise that climate must be central to constitutional reform.” netra.news/2025/shonar-ba…
OPINION — “The Chief Adviser, apparently a proponent of progressive politics, publicly praised the IMF in London last month. Just how he squares that with his desire for 'zero poverty' and 'zero unemployment' is a mystery.” netra.news/2025/banglades…
“The Chief Adviser, apparently a proponent of progressive politics, publicly praised the IMF in London last month. Just how he squares that with his desire for 'zero poverty' and 'zero unemployment' is a mystery.” netra.news/2025/banglades…
Despite cancelled passports, travel bans and arrest warrants, at least 10 Bangladesh army officers, accused of having participated in enforced disappearance, have fled the country. netra.news/2025/10-bangla…
Netra News uncovers how international investigators found that a top Sheikh Hasina aide was poised to gain €6.1 million from a World Bank-funded project in Bangladesh. READ: netra.news/2025/general-m…
For years, Netra News chased the story through Washington, Paris, London, Geneva and Dhaka, piecing together the anatomy of a transnational corruption scheme. #NetraNews #Bangladesh
His moniker was “G” — a figure who sat close to Sheikh Hasina and was set to rake in millions of euros off a bribery scheme. After years in the dark, his identity is finally coming to light. netra.news/2025/general-m…
His moniker was “G” — a figure who sat close to Sheikh Hasina and was set to rake in millions of euros off a bribery scheme. After years in the dark, his identity is finally coming to light. netra.news/2025/general-m…
“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,” Partha Sengupta writes in a photo essay curated by Mashruk Ahmad. netra.news/2025/the-blood…
The full story is now live, with visuals and breakdowns: 👉 interactive.netra.news/minority-repre… A rare moment where Bangladesh outpaces its neighbours — and a stark reminder of where it still fails. (11/n)
“It was the BNP in 2001 who asked for the direct election of women in reserved seats. The party is now opposing the idea.” — @AaqibShatil netra.news/2025/bnp-is-re…
Analysis in @NetraNews about the BNP backtracking on political reform it once championed. netra.news/2025/bnp-is-re…
According to the data analysed by Netra News, there are no indigenous personnel in the navy officer corps, just one Christian officer, and three Buddhists. New investigation by @NetraNews: 🔗 interactive.netra.news/minority-repre… #Bangladesh #PublicService #MinorityRights #NetraNews
“Bangladeshi women are still fighting for basic health autonomy, and there is no political will to support them.” netra.news/2025/her-body-…
