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By Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri, Senior Associate Editor

Bangladesh’s students, after leading the charge to topple the Sheikh Hasina ‘dictatorship’, are now busy with a new task—flood relief. From collecting donations to ensuring the delivery of food and clean water to affected areas, the students are at the forefront yet again. “We fought for our country’s freedom and ousted the dictator. Now this is ours to build,” a Dhaka University student told ThePrint’s Ananya Bhardwaj, reporting from a country in the midst of a political transition.

She also found that many Bangladeshis are angry with India for “harbouring a killer”. Sheikh Hasina’s stay in India after fleeing Dhaka and the Indian media’s portrayal of the student movement as an issue of minority repression, among other factors, have become sore points. “Don’t tell people you’re an Indian journalist, you won’t return in one piece,” a Dhaka local warned her. Read Ananya Bhardwaj’s ground report.

Meanwhile, back in India, the horrific rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital has brought under scrutiny West Bengal's civic volunteer scheme. Sanjoy Roy, the primary suspect in the RG Kar case, was himself a civic volunteer. Moushumi Das Gupta explores how this initiative was started but lost its way over the years.

In Kashmir, the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) led by jailed parliamentarian Engineer Rashid is preparing to field nearly three dozen candidates in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. ThePrint's Political Editor D.K. Singh delves into how this move has added a new layer of uncertainty about the nature of the mandate.

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Twelve years after the rape-murder of a Delhi physiotherapist created national concern over sexual violence against Indian women, forensic investigation in India remains dogged by anaemic capacity and poor standards. That won’t change, it’s clear, until there's a deeper public understanding of what forensic investigation can achieve, and the dangers of junk science.