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The Bangladeshi press is diverse, outspoken and privately owned. Over 200 newspapers are published in the country. Bangladesh Betar is the state-run radio service. [1] The British Broadcasting Corporation operates the popular BBC Bangla news and current affairs service.
Family and kinship are the core of social life in Bangladesh. A family group residing in a bari functions as the basic unit of economic endeavour, landholding, and social identity. In the eyes of rural people, the chula defined the effective household—--an extended family exploiting jointly-held property and being fed from a jointly operated ...
Statistics from Jatiya Mahila Ainjibi Samity, a Bangladeshi women's organization, show that from 2006 to 2010, 40 girls who died by suicide were victims of stalking. From 2001 to 2010, 4,747 women and girls died by suicide because of physical and domestic violence.
Sadia Ayman (born 17 March 1999) is a Bangladeshi film and television actress who works mainly in Bangladeshi television dramas and Dhallywood cinema.She made her television drama debut in To Be Wife (2019) directed by Imraul Rafat, she won a BCRA Award for Best actress for her debut web film Mayashalik (2022) directed by Shihab Shaheen, and she made her big screen film debut in Kajolrekha ...
Governments have generally respected freedom of religion, [9] a cornerstone of the Bangladeshi constitution. However, the police have been slow in responding to and investigating attacks against minorities, opposition activists & supporters and purportedly brutally suppress lawful protest against the government.
They speak Bangla fluently and have adopted many Bangla words for their own language. Most Santals are Christians now but they still observe their old tribal rites. Although the Santals used to lead a prosperous and peaceful life in the past, their economic and social conditions are now very backward. Agriculture is their main source of livelihood.
Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
A law was introduced prohibiting the death penalty and life imprisonment for children. However, children are still held to be criminally responsible at the age of nine. On 16 May 2010, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh declared sections 6(2), 6(3), and 6(4) of the Women and Children Repressive Prevention (Special ...