Aklakur Rahman Akash

Anjuara was a worker at Tazreen factory in Ashulia. On November 24, 2012, when a deadly fire broke out at the establishment, she was working on the fifth floor of the eight-storey building.

First, a gang smuggles solid wastes of leather (leftovers after cutting and trimming) from the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.  Then it sells them to poultry and fish feed producing factories around  the country.

After they were robbed, they went to the police and lodged a complaint. But the law enforcers, instead of giving them the support they sought, brutally tortured them.

A fertiliser and pesticide factory, sealed off by authorities around a year ago, is still reportedly continuing its operation in Dhaka’s Keraniganj area.

A local company is set to export solid waste generated at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), a move that could show the way for curbing the dumping of polluting materials in open yards and cutting the scope for environmental pollution.

With the ongoing energy crisis and the rising price of commodities, the tannery industry has been gravely affected, and with that, their workers.

The Salmashi village in Savar is popularly known as “Mehndi Gram” as most farmers in the area cultivate henna trees on a commercial basis to provide for their families.

The student in Ashulia who bludgeoned a teacher to death with a cricket stump was finally arrested yesterday, five days after the assault.

The age of the student accused in the murder case of Ashulia teacher Utpal Kumar Sarkar was shown as 16 in the FIR, but according to his birth certificate he is over 19, school authorities said today (June 29, 2022).

A student who assaulted a teacher with a cricket stump was yet to be arrested more than three days after the attack and a day after the teacher’s death.

“What did you do when my son was murdered? My son buy medicines for me. Fifteen days ago, he came to see me. My son loved me very much. I’m losing my mind... Please do something… Ensure justice for my son,” wailed 80-year-old Gita Bala Sarker, mother of school teacher Utpal Kumar Sarker, who died after a student hit him with a cricket stump on June 25.

She lost her mother at six.

Nine years have passed since the collapse of Rana Plaza, and yet majority of the survivors are still reeling from the traumas, both physical and mental, of that fateful day.

Just a few days ago, this correspondent came across four children collecting medical waste from a temporary garbage station of Super Medical Hospital, a private facility in Savar.

This was supposed to be their time of the year. There’s Pahela Falgun, then there’s Valentine’s Day, both occasions where people buy flowers to give to their loved ones.

Once Nurul Haque used to cultivate different types of crops in his land all around the year.

Owing to the failure of contractors to finish the construction of a foot-over bridge on time, pedestrians on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway’s Joypura area, are risking their lives to cross the road through the unfinished bridge, which doesn’t even have safety railings.

Savar Upazila Health Complex has been suffering from capacity issues for quite a long time now. From lack of beds, doctors and every other required facility, the state-sponsored health service is far from fulfilling the needs of the people.

The pothole ridden Zirabo-Bishmail road in Ashulia, Savar is in an extremely poor shape, causing immense suffering to the commuters.

It’s been a long-standing resolve of cultural activists in Savar to get a mandated cultural platform like Shilpakala Academy.