DMCH, volunteers step up to save lives
Md Ismail was waiting for passengers in his battery-powered auto-rickshaw in Jatrabari’s Kajla area on July 18.
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A relatively calm Dhaka
After days of endless violence, parts of Dhaka were relatively calm yesterday, the second day of the ongoing curfew.
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A desolate Dhaka
All major roads and streets in Dhaka wore a deserted look amid curfew yesterday.
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Moshar Machine promising a solution to mosquito menace
When the entire country is grappling with mosquito menace, a Bangladeshi entrepreneur and his team have come up with an ingenious solution that promises to be an effective tool in mosquito control.
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Beating the heat with ‘cool’ initiatives
April 22 was one of the hottest days Dhaka has ever experienced in the last 65 years. While many city dwellers preferred to stay in the comfort of their homes, some students of the department of philosophy at Jagannath University had other plans.
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Irresistable Antarctica
Mohua Rouf is one of the few Bangladeshis who have ever set foot on the world’s southernmost continent, Antarctica. She spent six days in the icy abode of penguins, seals and whales which is arguably the least-trodden place on earth by humans.
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Dhaka’s vanishing wildlife
Gendaria, a neighbourhood in Old Dhaka, once known for its spacious roads and European style colonial buildings, has lost much of its grandeur.
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RMG Workers’ Life After Protests: Plagued by uncertainty
Since the announcement of the new wage, the workers have been reiterating that it will not bring them any semblance of relief, but fighting for it has brought on all kinds of trouble.
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December 12, 2020
A landfill in disarray
With no segregation and recycling facility, Aminbazar landfill has been struggling to manage daily collection of more than 3,000 tonnes of solid waste.
November 22, 2020
UP chairman’s reign of corruption
Alleged corruption of a union parishad (UP) chairman has deprived several thousand cyclone affected families in Satkhira’s Ashashuni upazila.
November 8, 2020
DSCC’s waste collection ‘reform’ raises questions
The recent move by Dhaka South City Corporation to “reform” the city’s waste collection has not fared well with citizens, who say they are being charged excessively by the newly-appointed contractors, and the service is substandard.
September 30, 2020
No better than a jail
“It is a jail, isn’t it? Have you ever heard that a person lived happily in a jail?”
September 16, 2020
BJMC Golden Handshake: Workers skeptical, feel harassed
There was a lavish ceremony inside Karim Jute Mills Corporation on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday to mark the disbursement of due wages and other benefits of the laid-off and retired workers of 25 shuttered state-run jute mills.
September 15, 2020
Reopening State-Run Jute Mills: Industrialists not interested
Reopening of the country’s 25 state-run jute mills still remains uncertain as the government proposals for reopening the mills are given a cold shoulder by most of the jute industrialists.
August 27, 2020
2nd Dhaka Declaration: Ensure safe, dignified, informed and voluntary repatriation of the Rohingya people
The two-day International e-conference on “Connecting the Rohingya Diaspora: Highlighting the Global Displacement” ended at 10:00pm on August 26 with the 2nd Dhaka Declaration, 2020.
August 25, 2020
‘Continue pressure on Myanmar to repatriate the Rohingyas’
To mark the 3rd anniversary of the latest round of massive Rohingya exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, ActionAid Bangladesh in collaboration with the Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS), University of Dhaka and the Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), Brac University organised a two-day long international e-conference titled “Connecting the Rohingya Diaspora: Highlighting the Global Displacement.”
August 16, 2020
Closure of State-Run Jute Mills: Nothing for the temporary workers
More than 32,000 substitute and temporary workers of the 25 state-run jute mills that were closed down recently have been denied compensation packages though many of them had worked at the mills for decades.
August 12, 2020
Study, Research Abroad: Pandemic leaves them hanging
Thousands of students who got admission and scholarship at different universities abroad are in deep trouble due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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