First year of Netra News: Ten Selected Reports
Netra News was established as an independent public interest media outlet in November 2019, and started publishing articles on December 26, 2019. As set out in its launch editorial "Journalism...
Police troubles: IGP vs. Commissioner
The DMP commissioner's letter to the IGP On May 30th 2020, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Shafiqul Islam secretly sent a letter to Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed,...
Sinha Murder: Allegations of gruesome torture on detained police officers in RAB custody
Liakat Ali and Pradeep Kumar Das, the main suspects in the murder case of retired Bangladesh Army major, Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan, have alleged in video messages directed at senior police...
DGFI: Retired Bangladesh army major shot dead in police “killing competition”
A confidential field report prepared by the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) into the killing on July 31st of the retired army major, Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan, in...
We hack Facebook: State-sponsored cybercrime in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s military intelligence agency, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), has established a sophisticated operation which secretly hacks the Facebook pages and profiles...
New predictive modelling supports strategy of intermittent relaxing of Bangladesh lockdown
People throng the markets in Bangladesh, ignoring the Covid-19 epidemic. Photo: SOPA/Alamy Stock Photo New predictive modelling by an international team of academics from eight countries has...
Epidemiological report: Relaxing the lockdown in Bangladesh could have serious consequences
Dhaka, Bangladesh — Rickshaw riders seen wearing PPE as a preventive measure against Covid-19. Photo: Rakibul Hasan/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News A decision by the Bangladesh government to...
Crackdown against critical voices
The RAB has detained the celebrated political cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has filed a criminal case under the Digital Security Act (DSA) against eleven...
Covid-19: Sudden spike in the number of recovered in Bangladesh
Health authorities in Bangladesh have set a new criteria for classifying Covid-19 patients, leading to an overnight spike in the number of people who have officially recovered from the virus...
Covid-19: Rohingya refugees fear being killed by medical staff in camps
There is a widespread fear amongst the Rohingyas living in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar that they risk getting killed by medical staff if they are sent to Covid-19 isolation facilities,...
Covid-19: Transmission spreads in Dhaka cantonment
Eight officers belonging to the Army Medical Corps (AMC) of Bangladesh Army are being treated at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka, after they tested positive for Covid-19. The Armed...
Covid-19: United Nations coordination group voices concerns about government preparations in Rohingya camps
ISCG update about the Rohingya refugee camps. As the Bangladesh government orders Cox’s Bazar district to go into lockdown, a report published by the United Nations coordination body that...
First case of Covid-19 infection in Bangladesh Army
A Bangladesh Army major has tested positive for Covid-19, two ranking military officers have independently confirmed to Netra News. This is the first case of a military officer getting infected with...
Covid-19: Bangladesh in urgent need of personal protective equipment for hospitals
"Covid-19 situation report #1" is the UN’s first official situation report dealing with the unfolding Covid-19 epidemic in Bangladesh. According to a United Nations situation report, health...
United Nations interagency Covid-19 memo: Without interventions, “upto 2 million” people may die in Bangladesh
The preparation of the interagency United Nations memo was lead by the World Health Organization. According to a leaked interagency United Nations (UN) memo, the Covid-19 epidemic could result in...