List of affected in haors not yet completed
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled for today to visit Sunamganj, the worst affected district in recent flash flood in the haor belt, while the list of affected people has yet to be completed. The flash flood damaged standing boro crops and caused death of fishes and ducks in the haro areas crippling farmers in the region.
Tanners want safety of investment at Savar
Tanners from a human chain on Saturday demanded that the government must ensure safety of their investments in the new Tannery Industrial Park at Savar.
Accountability must for ensuring quality education: campaigners
Rights activists and campaigners on Saturday underscored the need for accountability and participation of state and non-state actors in the education sector for ensuring quality education to the students.
FLASH FLOOD-HIT SUNAMGANJ Food, job crisis forces people to move to urban areas
Farmer Kutub Uddin, along with members of his family, on Wednesday set out for Sylhet city as he had no food in his house and there was also no hope for getting any job in the locality after flash flood inundated his crops in haor.
Serve people with more humane attitude
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the judges and lawyers to be more humanitarian and serve the litigants with extra care to reduce their sufferings in the court of justice.
Fakhrul challenges AL to test popularity
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday challenged its arch-rival ruling Awami League to test its popularity by holding an election without any influence of government and police.
Road digging leaves city people gasping
An orgy of erratic road digging in different areas in the capital, apparently aimed at nothing other than improving utility services, leaves local people wondering when they would come out of the acute suffering they have been put to.
Bangladeshi girl with three legs ‘walks, runs’ after Australia surgery
A toddler born with three legs – because body parts of a twin had grown inside her – was returning home to Bangladesh Friday after complex and rare surgery in Australia enabled her to walk and run, her doctor said.
No sports, games in most schools
Most schools offer no sports activities to their students in gross violation of the national education and sports policies.
FLASH FLOOD-HIT HAORS VGF for 2.6 lakh families under 100-day programme
The government has taken a move to distribute rice and flour along with a certain amount of cash among about 2.56 lakh ultra-poor flash flood-affected families in Sylhet division under its 100-day Vulnerable Group Feeding programme.
