People continue to suffer 5 months inside Aila

Living became a nightmare for people of Dacope, an upazila in southwestern Khulna, after May 25 when the region was battered by water surges whipped up by cyclone Aila that ripped through the coastline into India. And it has not yet changed for the better for them, even five months inside the devastation. The people, who lost all they had to the cyclone, started living in makeshift shelters and on high land such as roads, living on the help dished out by government agencies and non-governmental organisations.

Mobile phone users suffer multifarious problems

Obscenity spread out by mobile phone users more or less hampers study of nearly 90 per cent of its users, who are also students of Dhaka University (DU), a research revealed recently. Over 50 per cent users of mobile phone face different types of physical and mental problems due to use of their mobile, said the research.

Pedestrians left to suffer

Successive governments and Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) have always deprived pedestrians of their basic amenities even though they constitute half the commuters in the capital.

PM asks senior ministers, advisers to show restraint

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday cautioned some of her cabinet colleagues and also party leaders to show restraints in their comments so that the image of the government does not suffer.

Patients suffer as blood in short supply

Only 25-30 per cent of the patients across the country who require blood on emergency basis are lucky enough to get it on demand from the blood banks while the others depend on their friends or relatives.

City dwellers suffer frequent load shedding

Load shedding in the capital, especially in the eastern parts, and its suburb turned severe in the last few days. Severe power crisis is affecting the city people, educational institutions, business establishments and hospitals as power generation fell drastically due to lack of gas supply.

'Policy mania’ delaying energy sector development: Experts

Experts: Extract coal now or never

The nation has continued to suffer from energy crisis mainly due to over emphasising on and frequent change in national coal (draft) policy by the successive Governments instead of extracting the mineral resource, which should have given the nation's economy a great leap forward.

GMG passengers suffer from frequent flight cancellations

Some take air journey for comfort while some for speed. But one will hardly enjoy the journey when he or she takes flight in local airlines like GMG for its frequent flight cancellations.
"These days we cannot depend on GMG Airlines for its frequent flight cancellations, no matter whether it is domestic or international ones, let alone the theft of luggage," an aggrieved passenger told UNB.