Piyara Begum once had a happy life in Garuhara village by the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh, but worsening erosion of the river banks has displaced her family seven times.
Now Piyara, 30, has taken shelter in Panchgachi village, 8 kilometres away in the same sub-district of Kurigram Sadar.
“I am always concerned about where Piyara and her three children are living, and how she manages her family expenses, as she has lost everything due to erosion,” said her uncle, Abdul Majid, who still lives in Garuhara village.
The loss of Piyara’s home is taking a toll on her mental and physical health, he added.
Riverbank erosion is a common problem along the mighty Brahmaputra during the monsoon,
President Abdul Hamid today urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to be more active to make the government more responsible, reports BSS.
He said this when an eight-member delegation of NHRC, led by its chairman Prof Dr Mizanur
Rahman, submitted the annual report-2015 of the commission to him at Bangabhaban here, President’s Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told BSS.
President Hamid observed that the commission can play an important role in ensuring transparency and accountability of the activities of the governmen...
Over 15 lakh people in Bangladesh are living like slaves with nearly half the population vulnerable to be exposed to it, a report of Australia-based Walk Free Foundation said today.
Global Slavery Index for 2016 placed Bangladesh 10
th among 167 countries in prevalence ranking with an estimated 15.3 lakh people living like slaves with over 44 percent of the population at risk of being exposed to it.
Last reported in 2014, the index placed about 6.8 lakh Bangladeshis living in conditions of modern da...
What’s left of the Stewart hotel sits on a steep hill overlooking sheep-flecked fields, tumbling hedgerows and distant snow-capped mountains in Appin, west Scotland. Even in its prime, the 37-bedroom hotel would have been an eyesore, but now it’s a wreck, the windows smashed, the roof collapsed by months of winter rain.
Just a few years ago, hundreds of tourists passed through this hotel each summer, drawn by the natural beauty of the West Highlands. According to scathing reviews on TripAdvisor and other travel websites, the view was the only good thing about the hotel. Archived posts say the rooms were filthy, the taps broken, the food inedible. Many reviewers complain about the staff, describing them as overwhelmed, unskilled and incompetent.
What the guests didn’t know was that...
Child marriage in Bangladesh could drop by up to one-third if girls receive educational support or skills training, according to a study looking at ways to combat the practice in a country with one of the highest prevalence rates.
The Population Council’s Bangladeshi Association for Life Skills, Income and Knowledge for Adolescents (Balika) project evaluated the success of three approaches in delaying the number of girls under 18 being married off.
Bangladesh has the fourth highest rate of child marriage in the world. In terms of absolute
nsportation by trucks from Bangladesh via Banglabandha (Bangladesh) to the warehouses of the Nep...
