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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. aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/banglades…

“For decades, successive governments have pursued grand solutions — metro rail, flyovers, elevated expressways. Yet experts argue that the answer may already lie beneath our feet: the waterways that once defined this riverine city.” netra.news/2026/dhakas-wa…

Bangladesh’s garment workers face a bare-bones Eid netra.news/2026/banglades…

On a rural Bangladeshi island, women say their votes brought violent retaliation. One woman says she was raped. Officials have yet to release key forensic findings. netra.news/2026/hatiya-ra…

interactive.netra.news/bangladesh-ele… This is really useful and brilliant work done by analysts at Netra News 👏👏 Via @NetraNews

Valuable resource.

Explore Bangladesh’s recently held election results at granular levels. See how alliances and candidates won or lost, and how turnout varied across 4000+ unions. interactive.netra.news/bangladesh-ele…

Shares in a loss-making technology company in which Bangladesh’s newly appointed central bank governor is a sponsor shareholder, and which is controlled by individuals linked to the S. Alam Group, rose sharply in the days before and after his appointment. netra.news/2026/banglades…

A prosecutor at International Crimes Tribunal asked the family of a detained former Awami League politician for one crore taka in exchange for securing his release on bail, according to multiple audio recordings obtained by Netra News and Prothom Alo. interactive.netra.news/ict-prosecutor…

Bangladesh’s much-vaunted tribunal set up to try crimes against humanity — which has so far sentenced a former prime minister to death — has a new scandal. @NetraNews and @ProthomAlo, the top daily, obtained recordings in which a prosecutor sought bribes. interactive.netra.news/ict-prosecutor…

In a new collaboration between @ProthomAlo and @NetraNews: "A prosecutor at Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) asked the family of a detained former Awami League politician for one crore taka (approximately $82,000) in exchange for securing his release on bail, according to multiple audio recordings of WhatsApp conversations obtained by Netra News and Prothom Alo." interactive.netra.news/ict-prosecutor…

"To editors, journalists, producers, and opinion‑makers in India: check your facts." - @Apurba_Jahangir (Deputy Press Secretary to Mohammad Yunus, fmr Chief Adviser of Bangladesh) in @NetraNews netra.news/2026/neighbour…

If you want to understand some underlying currents to help explain the outcome the #Bangladesh election, this is the article to read. netra.news/2026/bnp-victo…

“To editors, journalists, producers, and opinion‑makers in India,” addresses Apurba Jahangir, a press aide to Muhammad Yunus, in an op-ed. “Don’t outsource your understanding of an entire nation to anonymous ‘sources’ and viral WhatsApp forwards.” netra.news/2026/neighbour…

“There is still time to write a better chapter. One in which Indian 🇮🇳 and Bangladeshi 🇧🇩 media disagree vigorously, criticize freely, and occasionally even mock each other’s blind spots, but do so on the basis of reality, not rehearsed hysteria. One in which our shared border is a place where ideas and opportunities cross more easily than fake news”.

Apurba Jahangir wasn’t just Yunus’s press aide — he was his nephew. He had a front-row seat as Yunus’ team handled the avalanche of Indian media “interest” in Bangladesh after Hasina. Take his views with a pinch of salt, of course, but they are still revealing.

“A patchwork of liberals, clerics and minorities formed an unlikely alliance that outmanoeuvred an organised Islamist push, but their support cannot be taken for granted,” @the_nazmul writes in an analysis. netra.news/2026/bnp-victo…

I write: “A Netra News analysis of more than 1,600 single-sex polling stations outside Dhaka found that, in the centres Jamaat carried, female-only stations outnumbered male-only ones. The BNP’s ratio skewed more male, at roughly 6:4.” netra.news/2026/bnp-victo…