By Saiful Islam, on February 8th, 2010
Morshad, Khulna
: “Before Aila I was a beggar. But now I am totally dependent on relief with my family. I am not suitable for begging now. Before Aila, I was living beside the road and now I am living on this terminal of Kopotakkho Nod. I am very poor. I had a tiny house and I have lost it because of Aila”. This is the voice of climate victim Morshad Gazi of Koyera in Khulna. His age is almost 75 and he lives just beside the Kopotakkho Nod with his family.
He told about the situation of Aila ,“I saw rain at first as usual and I did not care about this. After sometimes, I realized huge wind and storm. We faced Aila suddenly without any weather forecasting. Everybody was running on the road of Obdah to save life. The road sank into water .Many parents have lost their children because of flow tide of river at the time of Aila. My house sank in to water immediately”. Read more...
By Saiful Islam, on January 24th, 2010
Rihad with chocolate
: At last Saturday, I was eating under the shadow (Canteen) of Dhaka University campus. Suddenly a very little boy named ‘Rihad’ came to me silently as usual with some chocolates. I gave him Tk.2 and observed what he does with this money. I saw that he directly went to his mother who was sitting far from the shadow (Canteen).He gave the money to his mother and his mother deposited the money in her Shari.
I went to the mother of this little boy and asked about her business. She said, “I am suitable for job but I can not get any job. I have two boys and both of them sell chocolates in the university campus. I purchase some packets of chocolate and sell the chocolates individually by my children. This business is quite profitable. Sometimes students do not take chocolate but pay money to my sweet children. I continuously change my place and sell chocolate in the whole campus by my children. Students do not see me because I sit far from the place where my children sell chocolate”. Read more...
By Voice of South, on January 22nd, 2010
Moulvibazar, Bangladesh: Poaching of guest birds continues indiscriminately in the water bodies and lakes of Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar of Bangladesh in a complete defiance to the existing law on protection of migratory birds.
A section of callous people by placing ‘poison traps’ continue to hunt these birds which arrive in the water bodies and lakes in the tea garden belt of Kulaura upazila from extreme cold countries at the advent of winter.
Majority of the birds usually come to Bangladesh from Siberia through Central Asian migratory routes. Read more...
By Voice of South, on January 17th, 2010
Jhenidah, Bangladesh: A large number of betel-leaf farmers in six upazilas of Jhenidah district are frustrated. Betel-leaf is the main cash crop of Harinakunda, Shailakupa, Kaliganj, Kotchandpur, Moheshpur and sadar upazilas of the district. Some 30 per cent sweet betel-leaves of the country are supplied from these upazilas. For hundreds of years betel-leaf remained the main source of earning for the people of those areas.
But for the last two decades, betel-leaf farms (Baroj) of these upazilas are being attacked with a virulent disease, locally known as ’stem rot’ disease. Read more...
By Dulal Chandra Pattak, on January 16th, 2010
Traffic jam has stopped Dhaka City.
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Traffic jam is a common phenomenon in our country especially in Dhaka city, one of the mega cities in the world. It is not a problem now-a-days rather it is more than a problem because problem has some solutions that traffic jam has not. Time is the most valuable things in the twenty first centaury no doubt. And traffic jam is killing the most productive time of the people of Dhaka city. Time is going on and on and we are lagging behind. The world is becoming speedy where as we are becoming slower. There are several causes behind this.
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