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Injured yet to be rehabilitated

It has been nine years since the most tragic incident in the history of the country’s readymade garment industry. The sufferings and agony still haunt the survivors of the catastrophic Rana Plaza tragedy.Several rights organisations on Sunday observed the day through several programmes. The ac...

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Fraudsters embezzle Tk 2cr from Savar

A group of fraudsters allegedly embezzled taka 2 crore from at least 4 thousand women in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, by announcing that they would provide sewing training and sewing machines to each woman who participated in the training session on behalf of the government.39 women on Th...

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Move to track down all the illegal factories in Savar

Savar Upazila administration has now taken the initiative to locate and compile a list of all factories that are illegally operating without proper documents and approval from the concerned departments that could be posing threat to human life and result in deadly accidents., said Mazharul Islam, Up...

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Rabbit farming a potential source of nutrition, income

Rabbit farming is quickly becoming popular among people, with hundreds of commercial farms springing up across the country in addition to other domestic animals, which had not been considered in Bangladesh even in a few years back. Concerned related with this sector said it could be a potential sour...

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Unmanaged medical waste poses threat to public health, environment

The indiscriminate dumping of medical and health care waste across the country poses a significant threat to human health and the environment, but the issues continue to be ignored despite the massive risk; a recent study shows that country’s 93.4 percent of total medical and health care waste...

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People deprived of Dhaka-Aricha highway extension benefit

The government although extending the Dhaka-Aricha highway from 4 to 8 lanes, one of the most important highways in the country, to keep vehicles flowing smoothly as well as to develop the country’s road communication system, but people don’t get its advantage as local syndicates have al...

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Covid-19 positivity rate touches 29.66pc in Savar

COVID-19 infection rate in Savar, on the capital’s outskirts, touched a new height this January at 29.66 percent amid the omicron situation across the world, which was come down overall at 7.62 percent last December 2021.Although the Upazila health division has yet to confirm how much people i...

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BSCIC honey processing plant beekeepers’ boon

The country’s only government-owned Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) honey processing plant provides the opportunity for the country’s beekeepers and others related to this sector to refine their collected raw honey at the cheapest rate.The plant also enables b...

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A tale of a few poor children

No government bodies has taken any steps yet to resettle about 42 families and their children, who have taken shelter at the bank of Karnatali river for years long.Even after multiple reports being published in several media including Bangladesh Post at different times, focusing on their miserable l...

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Chinese contractor quits leaving CETP incomplete

Lingzhi Environmental Protection Co. Ltd, the Chinese contractors closed the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) project implementation work officially, leaving the project incomplete, and handed it over to BSCIC last June.Md Mostaque Hassan, ndc, Chairman of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industri...

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Limit children’s internet access

Increasing number of children are believed to be misusing internet, often using unsafe websites for entertainment mostly enjoying at homes.Experts, who observed the negative impact of such socially damaging so called, ‘entertainment’ on the internet, strongly suggest installing parental ...

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Deadly pothole on Dhaka-Aricha highway finally filled

Roads and Highway Department (RHD) authority finally filled the deadly pothole on middle of Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar bus stand area on Tuesday.Many potholes were kept abandoned for many days in several roads and highways of the country causing several accidents. Some four vehicles fell in a pot...

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Online games making youths violent

In the recent past there is a new trend of playing online games mostly designed to attract and engage youths to violent behaviours.Experts, against exposing children to such addictive games, highly recommend enacting laws to prevent playing such online games. The online games are considered ver...

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Tannery workers passing difficult time

Tannery workers’ fate yet to change and did not meet their minimum demands, which has been demanding for long to ensure humanoid living for workers, despite passing around four years since the tannery industry shifted from capital’s Hazaribag area to Tannery Industrial Estate in Savar, s...

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Survivors for rehabilitation, speedy trial of accused

“Not only this day, I often come here to remember my daughter, as I believed that her soul still surrounding here, where she breathed her last. She is waiting for the justice; she is waiting for the supreme punishment to the accused, who are responsible to separating her with us, with our fami...

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Reliving the Rana Plaza nightmare

“I was just around 14 years old; I had to join a readymade garment factory due to family poverty," said Babli, a survivor of the Rana Plaza building tragedy to Bangladesh Post on Friday. One day before the Rana Plaza building catastrophe, the factory authorities announced leave for w...

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Covid-19 infection rate rises in Savar

Coronavirus infecting rate in Savar is on the rise again like other areas of the country. It has already started spreading fear among mass people. People have had a painful previous experience of last year. However, people felt relieved recently after vaccination activities started across the c...

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Unlicensed, low-quality pvt hospitals mushroom in Savar

Most of the private clinics, hospitals, and diagnostic centres in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, don’t maintain standard health service rules. They don’t obey the safe blood transfusion act of 2002 or maintain proper management of hospital’s waste, which is possessing...

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Accused moves freely but police unaware

Sakib, one of the accused of sensational schoolgirl ‘Neela Roy’ murder case of Savar, is currently wandering around in broad daylight. Although he is still identified as a fugitive in police register, this correspondent found some photos of him wondering around in the social media.After ...

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Many murder accused, juvenile gang patrons become councilor candidates in Savar

Many accused in murder case, extortionists and patrons of juvenile gang have become councilor candidates in upcoming Savar municipality polls, hiding their real asset statement and many of their criminal records. This was learned after reviewing their affidavit submitted to the Election Commission.&...