Aklakur Rahman Akash

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.

For most of the last seven years, Shobita Rani has been unemployed.

Around 75 boys and girls -- many in green t-shirts, others wearing karate Gi -- gathered at Bangabandhu Chattar in Savar’s Muktimor area, that too on a Friday morning. For the average Joe, yesterday was just another regular Friday. No classes, no work, a day for people to ignore their problems and relax. Not for them.

Sitting in front of an electric sewing machine inside the Swanirvar Dhamsona Union Parishad (UP) building in Savar, Rozina was trying to stitch two pieces of cloths together.

A 13-year-old girl was raped by a neighbour with the assistance of his wife in Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila. After the teenage victim became pregnant, local arbiters -- led by a Union Parishad member of Chowhat -- arranged an arbitration and collected Tk 1.80 lakh from the rapist for compensation. However, victim’s family members claim that the money was shared among the arbiters.

A 15-year-old girl, seeking legal help after she was raped, got raped again by her uncle. Promising to help her get justice, a third man raped her in Dhaka’s Dhamrai recently.

Forest Department is felling some 1,221 fully-grown trees in the name of widening two roads in Dhaka’s Dhamrai, although any road expansion project is yet to be taken.

Indiscriminate sand lifting from the Bongshi river in Bashna area of Dhamrai upazila is posing a threat to nearby farmlands and homesteads, escalating the risk of river erosion.

Absence of a fully functional central effluent treatment plant (CETP) and solid waste management at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate

An unapproved cattle market set up next to Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar continued to operate till yesterday despite mobile court

A cattle market has been set up in Savar’s Ulail without permission from local administration, on the same ground that municipality authorities earlier failed to get a lessee for despite inviting tenders twice.