Aklakur Rahman Akash

A group of youngsters has arranged new clothes for underprivileged children in Savar to help them celebrate Eid.

Workers from tannery and garment factories demonstrated in Savar on Wednesday to press home their demands -- including increase in wage and development of workplaces -- in observance of May Day.

Nilufar Begum, 35, a survivor of Rana Plaza tragedy, worked on the fifth floor of the building. Her right leg was severely injured in the incident. Six years have passed since the building collapsed, but she is still living in trauma.

Life was not kind to Shajenur Begum, a member of the 'Bede' (a nomadic ethnic group) community in Savar, when she had to make a living off snake-charming and selling amulets.

BRAC, considered one of the world's largest non-governmental organisations, arranges the Frugal Innovation Forum (FIF) every year with a new theme.

After suffering from multiple complications including throat ache, kidney diseases, irregularities of blood circulation in the brain, and heart problems, noted folk singer Kangalini Sufia was admitted to Savar Enam Medical College Hospital in the first week of December last year.

No “innocent” garment worker would be suspended, but those who got involved in criminal activities during the weeklong labour unrest would be punished, the BGMEA president said yesterday.

The magnitude of unrest in Bangladesh’s garments industry comes down after yesterday’s revision of wages and threats of factory closure.

A group of people, several of them disabled, going door to door to seek votes caught attention of Savar and Ashulia residents.

The contest in upcoming parliamentary polls for Dhaka-19 constituency will primarily be between two physicians.

Production at more than 60 garment factories remained suspended for the fourth consecutive day yesterday as owners kept those shuttered fearing unrest amid protests of workers, who apprehend discrimination in the new wage structure.

Six years after the Tazreen Fashions factory fire, 10 workers injured in the incident have taken their destiny in their own hands and set up their factory in Ashulia.

Marzana Akter injured her legs in 2015 when she fell off a tree, and has been unable to walk since then. She has to move around in a wheelchair now, but her dreams are much bigger than her disability.

Around 4:00pm last Thursday, Abul Kashem took his wife, Lily Begum, to Mamtaz Uddin General Hospital in Savar's Polashbari area as she was suffering from throat pain.

Bound to a wheelchair since childhood, Ali Ahmed never stopped to wonder what his life would be like if his mobility was not limited.

Students of Kakabo Government Primary School and Nischintapur Government Primary School in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka,

Savar's retired worker Sherajul Islam has never had it so good. In his late fifties, he took a brave initiative to start something new and

All they did was rescued a gang rape victim, took her to the hospital and gave her all sorts of assistance to keep her mentally strong during the critical time.

Shobita Rani has been unemployed most of the last five years despite being hired a couple of times by garment factories in Savar.

Toxic liquid waste discharged from the newly-relocated Savar Tannery Industrial Estate has been a cause of concern for the workers.