Arsenic, salinity, iron and bacteria poison Bagerhat water By Morshed Ali Khan, back from Bagerhat Photographs by Syeda Farhana Arsenic, salinity, iron and bacterial pathogens have severely contaminated both the ground and surface water sources in the entire region of Bagerhat. Acute shortage of safe water in all the nine Upazilas (sub-divisions) of this […]
By Morshed Ali Khan About forty families in two separate apartment blocks in Dhanmondi were in a dilemma. The entire one bigha plot next door was handed over to a developer. Soon the workers started demolishing the old two-story building manually. The hammering noise continued from early morning till late in the evening. Billowing dust […]
By Emran Hossain Moderate people throughout the country gasped in horror as the story of the double murder in Kalabagan in the capital unfolded last Monday. Half a dozen suspected Islamist militants, in this planned attack that lasted for only three minutes, tricked their way into the first floor apartment of the country’s leading gay rights […]
