MPO teachers continue hunger strike
Non-government teachers and employees on the monthly pay order scheme continued their hunger strike at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka for the second consecutive day on Saturday, demanding a pay increase...
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Govt pry assistant teachers suspend hunger strike after ministry meeting
Assistant teachers of government primary schools have called off their planned hunger strike after a meeting with officials from the primary and mass education ministry, where they discussed their three-point demand.
Some BRUR students end hunger strike
Some of the students of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, who began hunger strike three days ago, demanding a clear roadmap for the central student union election, continued their fast unto death protest on Tuesday...
Four BRUR students fall ill amid hunger strike
Four students of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur reportedly fell ill on Monday as they began indefinite hunger strike on Sunday, demanding a clear roadmap for the Central Students鈥� Union election at the institution...
Hidden hunger widespread
Rice prices continue to be the major contributor to food inflation as well as overall price hikes of essentials that lead majority people to struggle for food security amid spreading hidden hunger...
Are we eating safe?
WHEN the stomach is full, everything feels under control. But the idea of hunger can be so painful that the renowned 20th-century Bengali poet Sukanta Bhattacharya once compared the bright full moon to nothing more than a loaf of chapati in an empty stomach. Eating is perhaps one of the most fundamental human rituals, something which we celebrate several times a...
Gaza鈥檚 hunger games
ISRAEL鈥橲 weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General Efra铆n R铆os Montt, the famine in southern Sudan that left a quarter of a million dead 鈥� I walked past the frail and skeletal corpses of families lining roadsides 鈥� and later...
Shot to death before dying of hunger
SAMI, Khatem, Halima, Mousa, Abdel, Maha, Laila, Hatem, Hana all and others aged 7鈥�14, with rustled hair and in soiled, torn dresses stood in a serpentine queue with contorted faces and deformed tin plates and bowls of different sizes and colours dangling loosely from their stretched out, long waiting skinny hands due to lack of sufficient grips. Their eyeballs...
Meanwhile, 100s of millions die of hunger
I HAVE written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points: (1) The number of people who are hungry is greater now than last year; (2) the amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last year; (3) yhere is enough food to feed the total world population...
Meanwhile, 100s of millions of people die of hunger
I HAVE written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points:...
NU students begin hunger strike
A group of students started an indefinite period fast-unto-death strike at National University demanding immediate issuance of an admission circular for on-campus honours courses...
Global acute hunger hits new high, 2025 outlook bleak: report
More than 295 million people faced acute hunger last year, a new high driven by conflict along with other crises 鈥� and the outlook is 鈥榖leak鈥� for 2025 as humanitarian aid falters, a UN-backed report said Friday.
Technical, BM teachers issue demands, threaten hunger strike
Teachers from technical, agricultural diploma and BM, vocational, institutions across the country on Sunday announced a 15-point demand to the Directorate of Technical Education and warned of a hunger strike if their demands are not met...
Call to action on food security
THE Global Hunger Index 2024, published by Welthungerhilfe, Germany based non-profit and non-governmental aid agency, provides an important snapshot of the global state of hunger and malnutrition. This year鈥檚 findings reflect both progress and stagnation. While some nations inch closer to the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030, others...
DU female students protest, seek accommodation
A group of female students of Dhaka University staged a sit-in and a symbolic hunger strike in front of the vice-chancellor鈥檚 residence on Monday morning, demanding accommodation facilities...
ULAB students withdraw hunger strike
Students of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh on Thursday night withdrew their hunger strike after the university authorities agreed to take measures regarding their demands.
ULAB students begin hunger strike demanding VC鈥檚 resignation
Students of the University Of Liberal Arts Bangladesh on Thursday began hunger strike, demanding resignation of vice-chancellor Imran Rahman...
Hunger deaths 鈥榣ikely鈥� in Gaza, Sudan, Mali, Haiti: UN
UN food agencies warned Thursday of deadly hunger levels in 16 鈥榟unger hotspots鈥� in coming months, with the Palestinian territories, Sudan and South Sudan, Mali and Haiti of most concern.
Students begin hunger strike for justice
A group of students went on hunger strike on Thursday demanding immediate arrest of identified attackers during the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India.
Food security for all should be policy priority
Bangladesh having slipped three notches in the Global Hunger Index 2024, based on 2019鈥�2023 data, shows that the development model pursued and trumpeted by the toppled Awami League government ignored people鈥檚 most basic necessities. The index, prepared by two European non-governmental organisations and made public on October 11, has...
War and famine
MANY war stories end with hunger wreaking havoc on significant portions of a population. In Christian theology, the Biblical 鈥榝our horses of the apocalypse,鈥� believed by...
Politicians for keeping space for dialogue in politics
Grassroots politicians at a convention on Saturday called for keeping space for dialogue in politics to avoid conflict for unity and solidarity among all political parties...
Hunger striking Thai right activist dies in detention
A Thai rights activist detained on royal defamation charges died on Tuesday while on hunger strike in custody, the kingdom鈥檚 department of...
282m faced acute hunger in 2023: UN
Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said on Wednesday...
The immense hunger
LIKE all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the...
