Despite repeated concerns raised by human rights groups, Indian authorities have continued the practice of “push-ins” -- forcibly sending individuals across the border into Bangladesh -- with over 1,900 people pushed in since May 7.
Five years ago, Bangladesh initiated a Tk 400-crore deal with a Russian company to procure two helicopters for its police force, but the delivery was recently suspended due to US sanctions.
Prisoners in Bangladesh legally earn only Tk 2 per day for their labour, a figure so low that it demoralises inmates and undermines their rehabilitation efforts through meaningful work.
Police are grappling with operational challenges as more than 400 key posts have remained vacant over the past 10 months, impairing the force’s ability to combat crime.
Around five kilometres away from Jhalakathi district town, past the buzzing Kirtipasha bazaar and post office to the outskirts where the urban cacophony begins to fade, a colossal relic of Bengal’s feudal history rises like a spectre through the foliage- the Kirtipasha Zamindar Palace.
With her seven-year-old daughter, Mariam Begum, 32, was heading to school on a rickshaw along the road adjacent to the water pump at Ashkona in the capital’s Uttara.
This grim picture emerges as Bangladesh, like other countries around the world, observes the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking today.
Dhaka South City Corporation has remained effectively crippled for around 40 days due to a contested mayoral claim by BNP leader Ishraque Hossain and the government’s apparent mishandling of the matter.
Despite repeated concerns raised by human rights groups, Indian authorities have continued the practice of “push-ins” -- forcibly sending individuals across the border into Bangladesh -- with over 1,900 people pushed in since May 7.
Five years ago, Bangladesh initiated a Tk 400-crore deal with a Russian company to procure two helicopters for its police force, but the delivery was recently suspended due to US sanctions.
Prisoners in Bangladesh legally earn only Tk 2 per day for their labour, a figure so low that it demoralises inmates and undermines their rehabilitation efforts through meaningful work.
Police are grappling with operational challenges as more than 400 key posts have remained vacant over the past 10 months, impairing the force’s ability to combat crime.
Around five kilometres away from Jhalakathi district town, past the buzzing Kirtipasha bazaar and post office to the outskirts where the urban cacophony begins to fade, a colossal relic of Bengal’s feudal history rises like a spectre through the foliage- the Kirtipasha Zamindar Palace.
With her seven-year-old daughter, Mariam Begum, 32, was heading to school on a rickshaw along the road adjacent to the water pump at Ashkona in the capital’s Uttara.
This grim picture emerges as Bangladesh, like other countries around the world, observes the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking today.
Dhaka South City Corporation has remained effectively crippled for around 40 days due to a contested mayoral claim by BNP leader Ishraque Hossain and the government’s apparent mishandling of the matter.
Abdus Salam, 55, was sifting stones from a dredger machine on Dharla riverbank in Kawamari area of Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila.
Many families chose to travel by water to avoid the hassle of road congestion
