A group of eminent citizens have claimed that the death due to negligence case filed over the demise of 15-year-old Preeti Urang, a domestic help at the house of Syed Ashfaqul Haque, the terminated executive editor of The Daily Star, was only to hide the gravity of the.
The ongoing land acquisition process for the Rangpur EPZ at the Santal Palli under Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila should be stopped immediately, said eminent rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday.
The last rites of Pankaj Bhattacharya, president of Oikya NAP and one of the organisers of the country's Liberation War, will be held at Postogola Mahashashan tomorrow.
“We have many problems. We live with waterlogging and a lack of pure drinking water. But we never complain. This place to live is all we have. Where will we go if we are evicted?” asked Meghla, a 30-year-old cleaner from the Telegu community who lives in Outfall Colony-14 of Jatrabari’s Dhalpur.