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The Guitarist Who Taught Bangladesh to Rock: Remembering Ayub Bachchu

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The Guitarist Who Taught Bangladesh to Rock: Remembering Ayub Bachchu

Every year on 16 August, Bangladesh pauses to honour a man whose guitar strings carried the restlessness, heartbreak, and hope of an entire generation. Ayub Bachchu, known simply as AB, was born in 1962 in Patiya, Chattogram, and passed away on 18 October 2018, yet he remains the country’s most enduring rock icon. He was…

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Infant Mortality Across Bangladesh’s Eight Divisions: National Success, Regional Silence

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Infant Mortality Across Bangladesh’s Eight Divisions: National Success, Regional Silence

Bangladesh’s fall in infant mortality is widely celebrated, and rightly so. The national infant mortality rate (IMR) declined from roughly 100 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to about 20.76 in 2024, with a projection near 19.95 in 2025 (UN data). That is close to an 80 percent reduction across three and a half…

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