Sohel Parvez

Some 40 lakh new faces entered the job market between 2010 and 2013 and an equal number of people got jobs thanks to increasing economic activities in non-farm sectors, according to the Labour Force Survey 2013.

SEVENTY-NINE years ago, Manik Bandopadhyay painted the picture of the strugglesof fishermen in his famous novel,'Boatman of the Padma River.' The struggle for survival and livelihood remains to this day for many fishermen.

Rice imports hit a four-year high as traders find foreign produce, mainly from India, cheaper.

Every day around noon, Md Ujjal Hossain pauses at his banana orchard to admire how well the fruit of his labour has turned out. “Look at the banana stems -- they have grown so well. I was dreaming of getting a bounty from them,” said the 34-year-old grower from Meherpur, a major farming district in the southwest.

It was simply out of hobby that Abdul Gafur, from Jhikargacha upazila of Jessore, started rearing cows in 1991.

Shahanara Begum, 35, felt relieved that she could buy a cauliflower on credit from a street vegetable vendor. Her five children will get some vegetable curry in their next few meals instead of potato and pulse over the past four days.

Things may not seem that bad in the capital, but elsewhere the almost two-month-long blockade coupled with frequent hartals has hit every aspect of people's lives very hard. With inter-district communications snapped, businesses have come to a near-halt,

More than 6,000 cars are stranded at ports amid importers' reluctance to take delivery of the vehicles fearing vandalism on way to their final destinations.

Records suggest the practice of making poultry-fish feed out of Hazaribagh tannery waste has been going on for over a decade.