Md Shahnawaz Khan Chandan

Due to overwhelming treatment costs, scarcity of trained professionals and unavailability of equipment, cancer care is still inaccessible to hundreds of thousands of cancer patients in Bangladesh.

The government initiative to block pornography websites has proved a futile exercise due to lack of technological knowhow and concerted efforts from the state agencies.

With no segregation and recycling facility, Aminbazar landfill has been struggling to manage daily collection of more than 3,000 tonnes of solid waste.

Alleged corruption of a union parishad (UP) chairman has deprived several thousand cyclone affected families in Satkhira’s Ashashuni upazila.

The recent move by Dhaka South City Corporation to “reform” the city’s waste collection has not fared well with citizens, who say they are being charged excessively by the newly-appointed contractors, and the service is substandard.

“It is a jail, isn’t it? Have you ever heard that a person lived happily in a jail?”

There was a lavish ceremony inside Karim Jute Mills Corporation on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday to mark the disbursement of due wages and other benefits of the laid-off and retired workers of 25 shuttered state-run jute mills.

Reopening of the country’s 25 state-run jute mills still remains uncertain as the government proposals for reopening the mills are given a cold shoulder by most of the jute industrialists.

The two-day International e-conference on “Connecting the Rohingya Diaspora: Highlighting the Global Displacement” ended at 10:00pm on August 26 with the 2nd Dhaka Declaration, 2020.

To mark the 3rd anniversary of the latest round of massive Rohingya exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, ActionAid Bangladesh in collaboration with the Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS), University of Dhaka and the Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), Brac University organised a two-day long international e-conference titled “Connecting the Rohingya Diaspora: Highlighting the Global Displacement.”

More than 32,000 substitute and temporary workers of the 25 state-run jute mills that were closed down recently have been denied compensation packages though many of them had worked at the mills for decades.

Thousands of students who got admission and scholarship at different universities abroad are in deep trouble due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

While the whole country is celebrating Eid-ul-Azha, Khalishpur industrial area of ​​Khulna is in dismal state.

Hundreds of biological science and technology graduates of the country cannot apply their specialised knowledge in practical settings due to the lack of well-equipped laboratories and funding.

The continuous spread of Covid-19 and the consequent shutdown have made jobs rare and life harder for many daily wage earners of the capital.

Twenty-five Bangladeshi fishermen from Kurigram, stuck in an Assam jail for two months without trial, have little hope of returning home soon while another already has died in custody.

Hundreds of jute mill workers yesterday took to the streets in Dhaka, Khulna and Chattogram, protesting the government decision to shut all state-run jute mills and lay off 25,000 workers.

The government has put the last nail on the coffin of the country’s state-run jute industry by closing all the 22 jute mills and laying off 24,886 workers.

On April 14, a wooden vessel crammed with Rohingyas reached the Teknaf jetty. Those Rohingyas, all of whom were residents of different refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, tried to go to Malaysia in search of livelihood.

Rozina Akhter, an 11-year-old child with autism, has stayed confined to her home at Mirpur for the last three months and her mother is still struggling to make her understand why school is closed.