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.
Around 75 boys and girls -- many in green t-shirts, others wearing karate Gi -- gathered at Bangabandhu Chattar in Savar’s Muktimor area, that too on a Friday morning. For the average Joe, yesterday was just another regular Friday. No classes, no work, a day for people to ignore their problems and relax. Not for them.
Sitting in front of an electric sewing machine inside the Swanirvar Dhamsona Union Parishad (UP) building in Savar, Rozina was trying to stitch two pieces of cloths together.
A 13-year-old girl was raped by a neighbour with the assistance of his wife in Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila. After the teenage victim became pregnant, local arbiters -- led by a Union Parishad member of Chowhat -- arranged an arbitration and collected Tk 1.80 lakh from the rapist for compensation. However, victim’s family members claim that the money was shared among the arbiters.
A 15-year-old girl, seeking legal help after she was raped, got raped again by her uncle. Promising to help her get justice, a third man raped her in Dhaka’s Dhamrai recently.
Forest Department is felling some 1,221 fully-grown trees in the name of widening two roads in Dhaka’s Dhamrai, although any road expansion project is yet to be taken.
Indiscriminate sand lifting from the Bongshi river in Bashna area of Dhamrai upazila is posing a threat to nearby farmlands and homesteads, escalating the risk of river erosion.
Absence of a fully functional central effluent treatment plant (CETP) and solid waste management at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate
An unapproved cattle market set up next to Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar continued to operate till yesterday despite mobile court
A cattle market has been set up in Savar’s Ulail without permission from local administration, on the same ground that municipality authorities earlier failed to get a lessee for despite inviting tenders twice.
A group of youngsters has arranged new clothes for underprivileged children in Savar to help them celebrate Eid.
