Rickshaw pullers were labelled as opportunists who were simply following the trend of making demands.

It is inspiring to see the role of rickshaw-pullers in and around the student protests in Bangladesh.

Since it was very tough for Sohel Rana to earn a living and look after his four-member family just by pulling a rickshaw, he decided to venture into making bamboo products to earn some extra cash.

Thought rickshaw rides are always fun? Not quite, for office-goers at least.

Seventy-year-old day labourer Md Altaf Hossain from Nokathi village in Jhalakathi's Rajapur upazila has seven children, none of whom studied even as far as the Secondary School Certificate except one of his sons, Md Nasiruddin. Economic hardship made education elusive for the family but Nasiruddin, now 24, was determined. Unable to rely on financial support from home for his tertiary studies, Nasiruddin turned to pedal power.

The horrifying news of a rickshaw puller shot by cops during an alleged extortion drive has, once again, brought to the fore the unethical and illegal practices of our law enforcement agencies.