Rights activists on Monday urged the government to ensure the rights of street women and children and demanded an allocation for them in the upcoming budget. The demands came up at a press conference jointly organised by Grambangla Unnayan Committee and Association of Waste Resource Workers in Bangladesh at Dhaka
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3 risky buildings sealed off in Ctg
A mobile team of the Chittagong Development Authority on Monday sealed off three risky buildings of Agrabad Excess Road in the city and fined their owners Tk 50,000 each. The team conducted the drive at Agrabad, Shantibag and Halishahar Residential areas. CDA deputy chief town planner Sarwar Uddin Ahmed
Strike at educational institutions today
Leftist student organisations platform Progressive Students’ Alliance will enforce today a strike in all educational institutions across the country, demanding capital punishment of the owners of garment factories at Rana Plaza of Savar. They will boycott classes and examinations between 11:00am
Prioritising legal aid to poor suggested
Giving priority to the legal aid related cases is very important for speedy disposal in the greater interest of the distressed and poor justice-seeker litigants. The judges, lawyers, police and others concerned should have to work together along with service- oriented zeal as the government is committed to provide legal aid
SCC yet to prepare list of risky buildings
The Sylhet City Corporation is yet to prepare a list of risky buildings in the city when at least 50 rundown buildings have been posing threat to lives for years. Besides, activities in a number of public and private buildings, which already had been declared vulnerable, are going on amid tremendous insecurity of life,
Demolition of Shebak Colony begins
The Chittagong City Corporation on Sunday began demolishing Shebak Colony, a dilapidated and risky building inhabited by cleaners of the corporation, at Patharghata under Kotwali police station in the port city. CCC sources said the building was identified as risky years back but the authorities failed to demolish it as the inhabitants did not leave ... Read more
Workers’ union demands compensation for victims
The Sylhet District Construction Worker Union on Sunday formed a human chain in the city, demanding immediate arrest of the owners of garment factories housed at Rana Plaza, proper compensation for the victims’ families and necessary treatment for the wounded apparel workers. The union members participated in the human chain
Allocation for children in budget demanded
Speakers in a programme in Dhaka called upon the government to take step for making adequate allocation in the budget for children for protecting their rights. There is allocation for women and poor, but no allocation for children in the budget, they said while addressing a press conference at Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University on ... Read more
London Grace celebrates Pahela Baishakh
London Grace School in Dhaka held Baishakhi fair and Bangla New Year celebrations on Saturday depicting the six seasons in stage performances. The students and teachers also exhibited different cultural heritages of the nation through different programmes.
JnU students continue demo
Students of Jagannath University staged protests and blocked road on Sunday morning, demanding new dormitories and their control over the existing ones. Teachers and staff of the university could not enter the premises during the demonstration in the morning.
Dhaka-N’ganj DEMU railcar service yet to resume
Bangladesh Railway is yet to resume its Diesel Electrical Multiple Unit railcar commuter service between Dhaka and Narayanganj. The DEMU railcar service remained suspended since Thursday, a day after its inauguration as 20 passengers fell sick at Chashara railway station due to suffocation. BR replaced the local train service between Dhaka
Poor waste management at RMCH
Rajshahi Medical College Hospital and other public and private hospitals and clinics in Rajshahi city are running without proper waste disposal facilities posing serious heath hazards to adjacent localities. The 530-bed RMCH, the biggest healthcare facility in the northern region, dumps its medical wastes in two open dustbins built
Media can help change attitude towards transvestites
The media has a vital role to play in changing the society’s attitude towards the transgender and other socially-excluded people to ensure their fundamental rights, speakers at a discussion said on Saturday. They viewed that the transgender, male sex-workers
Tk 26 lakh grants for Rajshahi slum dwellers
A total of 521 slum households in the city received grants of around Tk 26.05 lakh for attaining economic emancipation through income-generation activities. Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project distributed chaques for stimulating the slum community towards goat rearing and small business for uplifting
Orientation of IU dev studies course held
The orientation programme for the newly admitted students of the development studies Master’s programme at Islamic University in Kushtia was held on Saturday. The students, admitted under session 2013-2014, are the fourth batch of the evening course conducted under the department of politics and public adminstration.
Call for bringing street kids under mainstream development
Speakers at a discussion stressed the need for bringing the underprivileged street children under mainstream development by providing them with basic facilities especially education, health and shelter. Privileged groups of the society should do something for development of the street children, they said, adding if every rich family comes forward with supports, no children
Maritime univ student drowns in Ctg
A cadet of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Maritime University drowned in a water body on the campus on Saturday in Chittagong. The student, HM Masud Kaiser Shuvo, 21, a second-year student and son of Mainul Islam, hailed from Barura of Comilla.
Illegal parking blocks Sylhet city roads
Unauthorised parking lots set up occupying roads have mushroomed in the Sylhet city, aggravating city traffic congestion. The city dwellers have alleged that more than 50 such parking lots for cars, microbuses, CNG-run auto-rickshaws, rickshaws, battery-run three-wheelers and other
Nahid seeks cooperation of all to create talented people
The education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Friday urged all sections of people to extend their helping hands alongside the government’s initiatives for developing latent talent of students. ‘We can create talented people by ensuring opportunities for the students,’ he told a function on the occasion of giving Sher-e-Bangla Smriti stipend in the auditorium
Slum dwellers to get solar street light in Rajshahi
The Rajshahi city slum dwellers are going to have improved housing and solar streets facilities. The city mayor, AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, revealed this while distributing bank chaques worth Tk 2.52 crore for eco-friendly infrastructural improvement for the slum communities. Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project