Part -I: Aresenic mitigation or commercial ventures Photo: Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. Latifa Begum of Alipur, Faridpur is counting her final days lying on the floor of Faridpur Sadar Hospital. She comes from a very poor family. Her husband died years ago, and her eldest son sells newspapers to barely survive in these difficult...
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Part-I: Posted Earlier. Part -II: Its a catastrophe waiting. The Daily Ittefaq published an article on July 26, 2008 that 80 million people of Bangladesh have high risk of arsenic poisoning. Specialists from Dhaka Medical College, Mitford Hospital, and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University reported a rapid increase in different cancers, liver cirrhosis, kidney,...
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Part -I: Aresenic mitigation or commercial ventures Photo: Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. Latifa Begum of Alipur, Faridpur is counting her final days lying on the floor of Faridpur Sadar Hospital. She comes from a very poor family. Her husband died years ago, and her eldest son sells newspapers to barely survive in these difficult...
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The news is very eye-catching and commensurate in terms of ‘positive Bangladesh’: recently the ministry of Industry has sent a proposal to the cabinet division for the decision to reopen three state-owned mills. The National Coordination Committee (NCC) to combat serious crimes has recommended positively on the proposal. But the outcome is not so...
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Almost a year ago, a middle-aged Bhutanese woman trader in the Indian border town of Phuentsholing sounded an ominous note for Bhutanese democracy. "We have heard about the polls on the Indian side," she told this correspondent. "Sometimes, unexpected incidents also come out with the elections. We do not want those here in Bhutan....
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I just came across a news article in DNINDIA which forced me to write something. Here is the excerpt that I want to quote. “The general is here to get the Indian political establishment to advise Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League and Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party not to take part in...
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My memories of December 16 go back to 1990. It was the time when HM Ershad had just stepped down and the first caretaker government, led by Justice Shahbuddin Ahmed, was in charge. The people of Bangladesh were beaming with new hopes, the hope for a democracy, the hope for a...
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Future looks bleak for about a thousand and a half cyclone survivors in two Mirzaganj villages of Patuakhali, at an aerial distance of about 153 KM from Dhaka, as short-term aid activities, which could ensure them a bare living for...
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