BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is under “close observation” of doctors in a cabin at Evercare Hospital for the last 26 days, her personal physician Professor AZM Zahid Hossain said today.

Twelve-year-old Rubaiya’s world is limited to her bed. A resident of the Korail slum in the capital, she lives in a dark windowless tin-shed shanty. She has not seen a glimpse of the sky in the last three years. The last time she went on a trip outside was seven years ago, at her grandmother’s home in Cumilla.