Two police residential messes built three years ago in Narsingdi remain unused due to bureaucratic delays and alleged negligence
water pollution and encroachment have drastically reduced fish populations, forcing him to consider changing his occupation and pushing him into hard times.
Surge in unregulated vehicles, lack of enforcement to blame
Bristi Akter has no legs since birth. Now 13, the Kishoreganj girl showed an increasing interest in studies and her family had her admitted to a local school. But her peers would often tease her about her condition, forcing her family to stop sending her to the school in the district’s Bhogpara in Katiadi upazila.
At the turn of the millennium, travelling by road between Sylhet and Dhaka felt akin to a trek across rugged terrain. One would have to awkwardly traverse bumps along narrow and winding paths for upwards of 10 hours to make the trip either way.
Laila Kaniz Lucky is the upazila parishad chairman of Narsingdi’s Raipura and a retired teacher of a government college.
Locals said that they raised Tk 30 lakh to construct the two bridges, whose total length is 1,240 feet. Of the two bridges, the bambo-made one is 900-feet, while the wooden bridge stands is 340 feet long
At only three, Kazi Mahmud Hasan Tarek lost his ability to walk after suffering from polio.
Two police residential messes built three years ago in Narsingdi remain unused due to bureaucratic delays and alleged negligence
water pollution and encroachment have drastically reduced fish populations, forcing him to consider changing his occupation and pushing him into hard times.
Surge in unregulated vehicles, lack of enforcement to blame
Bristi Akter has no legs since birth. Now 13, the Kishoreganj girl showed an increasing interest in studies and her family had her admitted to a local school. But her peers would often tease her about her condition, forcing her family to stop sending her to the school in the district’s Bhogpara in Katiadi upazila.
At the turn of the millennium, travelling by road between Sylhet and Dhaka felt akin to a trek across rugged terrain. One would have to awkwardly traverse bumps along narrow and winding paths for upwards of 10 hours to make the trip either way.
Laila Kaniz Lucky is the upazila parishad chairman of Narsingdi’s Raipura and a retired teacher of a government college.
Locals said that they raised Tk 30 lakh to construct the two bridges, whose total length is 1,240 feet. Of the two bridges, the bambo-made one is 900-feet, while the wooden bridge stands is 340 feet long
At only three, Kazi Mahmud Hasan Tarek lost his ability to walk after suffering from polio.
At least 17 people were killed after a freight train ignored a signal light and rammed into a carriage of Egarosindhur Godhuli near Bhairab Bazar Junction Railway Station yesterday afternoon.
“I have been waiting for four hours for my test since I arrived here at 9:00am with a stomach ache. However, by the time my turn arrived, the doctor had already left the hospital,” said Sonia Akter while talking to this correspondent recently.
