When the HSC results were published yesterday, Kulsum Begum, mother of 17-year-old Nafisa Hossin Marwa, found out that her daughter had secured GPA 4.25
Normalcy returned to most factories on the outskirts of Dhaka as labour unrest eased and most workers returned to their factories yesterday. .Garment factories in the Ashulia, Zirabo and Zirani areas have been reopening since Sunday..Of the 407 garment factories in these areas, 392
But for Rokeya Begum and her family, things will never get back to normal
The shrines of Buchai Pagla and Barkat Ma, located in Dhamrai upazila within Dhaka district, were vandalised last week, but police and the administration are yet to take any action regarding these incidents.
On Wednesday, over 500 people gathered at the Buchai Paglar Mazar (shrine of Buchai Pagla) in the Batulia area of Sanora union in Dhamrai, and vandalised it
Workers from different sectors continued their demonstrations in Ashulia, Savar, Dhamrai, and Gazipur yesterday demanding equal rights in jobs, increase in salaries, and regularisation of contractual workers.
Amid workers’ demonstrations for better pay, regularisation, and two-day weekend, production at some 10 garment and 20 pharmaceutical factories stopped on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday and yesterday.
A grisly video of several partially covered bloodstained bodies on a van with some policemen standing by has gone viral on social media, raising questions about possible disrespectful handling of bodies of quota movement victims.
Six years after the Tazreen Fashions factory fire, 10 workers injured in the incident have taken their destiny in their own hands and set up their factory in Ashulia.
Marzana Akter injured her legs in 2015 when she fell off a tree, and has been unable to walk since then. She has to move around in a wheelchair now, but her dreams are much bigger than her disability.
Around 4:00pm last Thursday, Abul Kashem took his wife, Lily Begum, to Mamtaz Uddin General Hospital in Savar's Polashbari area as she was suffering from throat pain.
Bound to a wheelchair since childhood, Ali Ahmed never stopped to wonder what his life would be like if his mobility was not limited.
Students of Kakabo Government Primary School and Nischintapur Government Primary School in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka,
Savar's retired worker Sherajul Islam has never had it so good. In his late fifties, he took a brave initiative to start something new and
All they did was rescued a gang rape victim, took her to the hospital and gave her all sorts of assistance to keep her mentally strong during the critical time.
Shobita Rani has been unemployed most of the last five years despite being hired a couple of times by garment factories in Savar.
Toxic liquid waste discharged from the newly-relocated Savar Tannery Industrial Estate has been a cause of concern for the workers.
Bangladesh men's and women's teams left for Nepal yesterday to take part in the four-nation international wheelchair basketball tournament, which gets underway today.
