It is the responsibility of the government to ensure justice and protection for tea workers

Workers of 241 tea gardens across the country enforced a work abstention today, demanding increase of their daily wage – Tk 300 from Tk 120.

The workers of Ayeshabag Tea Garden in Baralekha upazila of Moulvibazar go on indefinite strike to press home their seven-point demand including the permission of cultivating paddy in fallow land inside the tea garden.

Tea garden workers issue a seven-day ultimatum to the authorities to meet their demand for cancelling the special economic zone (SEZ) in Chunarughat of Habiganj.

The bloody birth of Bangladesh in 1971 has witnessed many brave stories.