Aklakur Rahman Akash

Workers of A-One BD staged a sit-in in front of the Ashulia Press Club for the second consecutive day yesterday, demanding ten months arrears from their factory in the Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ).

Two accused among 15 in a case for gang-raping a girl and assaulting another in Savar confessed to court of the crime yesterday.

Four days after the murder of Savar schoolgirl Nila Roy, information about the dubious past of prime accused Mizanur Rahman (20) has started to surface. Mizan, who allegedly stabbed Nila in an abandoned house owned by his father on Sunday night, has turned out to be a member of “Shakil and Sakib” gang.

A total of 36 employees of Savar Govt College, who were recruited temporarily 12 years ago, are facing uncertainty regarding the permanence of their jobs after the institution declared itself to be nationalised in 2018.

Heavy downpour in the past few weeks has brought many problems for the government-run Horticulture Centre in Savar’s Rajalakh, an institution that has been instrumental for widespread tree plantation in the area.

The authorities in Savar upazila of Dhaka started asking the city dwellers to wait from a few weeks to even a month before being tested for coronavirus after showing symptoms.

Despite having Covid-19 like symptoms, Anisur Rahman has to wait a month to have a test done.

Legend says during the reign of Mughal Subahdar Shaista Khan, a singla taka would buy you eight maunds of rice.

Al-Muslim Group, a leading garment exporter, is constructing quarantine centres at Savar to treat its workers who show Covid-19 symptoms.

Eggs producers in Bangladesh have been counting huge losses due to the decline in retail prices of the protein because of the demand collapse amid the coronavirus-induced countrywide shutdown and higher production cost.

The sky wore a gloomy look yesterday as if cautioning people to stay put. But a 60-year-old woman did not pay heed as she slowly but surely walked along the empty Dhaka-Aricha highway.

The survivor of the Rana Plaza tragedy, who worked on the sixth floor of the building, severely injured both her legs in the incident. But after taking treatment for a long time and sheer willpower, Yanur, on a wheelchair, moved on with her life.

Sahamarmita Foundation, a voluntary organisation, is providing food assistance to people -- especially middle- and low-income families -- during the ongoing shutdown amid coronavirus pandemic.

Garment workers have continued to manufacture apparel items for Western buyers despite growing fears of coronavirus contagion in the factories given the close proximity of the workstations.

Limon Hossain, who was shot and maimed during a Rab shooting in 2011, started his new journey as a teaching assistant at Gono University’s law department last month.

Limon Hossain, who lost a leg after being shot by the Rapid Action Battalion in 2011, has started his career as a teaching assistant at the Department of Law of Gono University in Savar.

Savar’s Bamni Khal has almost gone out of sight as people living nearby gradually filled the canal with earth and has been using it as farmland over the years, with the authorities concerned being nonchalant to save the waterbody.

The Bangshi River was once an indispensable part of everyday life for the people of Nolam village in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Dozens of illegal brick kilns have resumed operations in Savar and Dhamrai on the outskirts of Dhaka, days after the Department of Environment (DoE) had fined the owners, due to the authorities’ failure to fully destroy those, and lack of monitoring.

The fate of a century-old 6.12-acre pond, locally known as Dorgar Pukur, at Gazirchat in Savar’s Ashulia seems uncertain due to conflict over ownership.