Reportage, debate, analysis — Netra News is an award-winning non-profit platform of public interest journalism focused on #Bangladesh.
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🏆✨ Netra News has been awarded the prestigious Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2025 by Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
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Jun 11
NEW: Bangladesh police have relied heavily on anti-terrorism legislation to enforce a ban on the activities of the Awami League, the former ruling party ousted in the 2024 uprising.
But children, too, have been caught in the dragnet.
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🇧🇩 #Bangladesh: Within days of its founding, @NetraNews’s website was banned by Bangladeshi authorities. Despite government pressure, the outlet has continued to investigate official corruption and human rights abuses.
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Jun 6
“The BJP won Bengal,” writes @DasNoyonika in a data-driven interactive op-ed, “but not simply because voters were purged.”
The voter revision, she adds, “did not prove to be the decisive factor the way its champions had hoped or its critics had feared.”
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May 27
NEW: A financing overhaul, a budget set too late, a misplaced faith in foreign loans, warnings left unheeded — how it all converged into a measles outbreak that has killed at least 88 children, and likely hundreds more.
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Jun 2
Even in a story as “benign” as judicial independence, we still managed to use a data chart showing how the backlog of cases has kept growing over the years — alongside a terrific reported analysis and a sharp, to-the-point illustration. netra.news/2026/bnp-judiciar…
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Jun 2
NEW: The BNP promised to free the courts — then abandoned the very reforms meant to make that promise real.
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May 30
NEW: An investigation, supported by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (@earthjournalism) and based on government records and more than a hundred interviews, found repeated violations by industrial trawlers in waters reserved for small-scale fishers.
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📣 IPI and @IMSforfreemedia are proud to announce the 11 trailblazing organisations shortlisted for this year's Free Media Pioneer Award.
🎉 See the full list and read more about their work:
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May 30
NEW: @Iffat_A_Munia and @the_nazmul analysed more than 100 previously unreported documents and conducted over a dozen interviews to produce the most comprehensive account yet of a measles vaccine crisis that precipitated at least 88 confirmed deaths of children, and likely more.
May 27
NEW: A financing overhaul, a budget set too late, a misplaced faith in foreign loans, warnings left unheeded — how it all converged into a measles outbreak that has killed at least 88 children, and likely hundreds more.
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excellent investigation into 🇧🇩's recent measles outbreak(s).
"At almost every decision point ... the country’s public health bureaucracy was paralysed by accumulating delay. A central miscalculation: a dependence on loans that were assumed to be within reach, and were not."
May 27
NEW: A financing overhaul, a budget set too late, a misplaced faith in foreign loans, warnings left unheeded — how it all converged into a measles outbreak that has killed at least 88 children, and likely hundreds more.
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May 27
Terrific deep dive by @NetraNews on how a health-financing overhaul, late budgeting, dependence on repurposed ADB loan money, delayed government payments, ignored warnings and disruptions in frontline immunisation work helped fuel Bangladesh’s deadly measles outbreak.
May 27
NEW: A financing overhaul, a budget set too late, a misplaced faith in foreign loans, warnings left unheeded — how it all converged into a measles outbreak that has killed at least 88 children, and likely hundreds more.
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May 26
Netra News will release an investigation tomorrow into the cascade of delays behind a measles outbreak that has killed at least 88 children.
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May 23
NEW: A draft bill obtained and reviewed by Netra News seeks to roll back efforts to strengthen the National Human Rights Commission.
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May 25
The arrests, sometimes originating with suggestive content considered offensive in Bangladeshi society, have revived an old argument over whether offensive or insulting remarks fall outside protected speech.
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May 23
We have obtained a draft bill seeking to roll back progress made under an earlier law governing Bangladesh’s human rights watchdog.
Uncovered too that a sharply worded dissent by a ruling-party MP was omitted from the parliamentary report after the MP was made to withdraw it.
May 23
NEW: A draft bill obtained and reviewed by Netra News seeks to roll back efforts to strengthen the National Human Rights Commission.
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May 18
NEW — When Langrao Mro came home in March, he had a different name. The 13-year-old had been enrolled four months earlier at an Islamic seminary, one of at least 150 children from indigenous communities sent to madrasas in Bandarban.
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May 13
NEW — A predatory new breed of mobile journalists has turned public space and street harassment into a lucrative cottage industry.
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