Survivors and their families still say little has changed
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 group of youngsters has arranged new clothes for underprivileged children in Savar to help them celebrate Eid.
Workers from tannery and garment factories demonstrated in Savar on Wednesday to press home their demands -- including increase in wage and development of workplaces -- in observance of May Day.
Nilufar Begum, 35, a survivor of Rana Plaza tragedy, worked on the fifth floor of the building. Her right leg was severely injured in the incident. Six years have passed since the building collapsed, but she is still living in trauma.
Life was not kind to Shajenur Begum, a member of the 'Bede' (a nomadic ethnic group) community in Savar, when she had to make a living off snake-charming and selling amulets.
BRAC, considered one of the world's largest non-governmental organisations, arranges the Frugal Innovation Forum (FIF) every year with a new theme.
After suffering from multiple complications including throat ache, kidney diseases, irregularities of blood circulation in the brain, and heart problems, noted folk singer Kangalini Sufia was admitted to Savar Enam Medical College Hospital in the first week of December last year.
No “innocent” garment worker would be suspended, but those who got involved in criminal activities during the weeklong labour unrest would be punished, the BGMEA president said yesterday.
The magnitude of unrest in Bangladesh’s garments industry comes down after yesterday’s revision of wages and threats of factory closure.
A group of people, several of them disabled, going door to door to seek votes caught attention of Savar and Ashulia residents.
The contest in upcoming parliamentary polls for Dhaka-19 constituency will primarily be between two physicians.
