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The effects of eve teasing on development in Bangladesh

Staff Reporter, 5th April 2010:

Rahela is an eleven year old girl in Bangladesh. After helping her

mother cook and serve breakfast, she is preparing for school. She should be excited. She likes learning and school provides a reprieve from the drudgery of household chores. But she is not excited. Instead, she is filled with dread. That is because every day, on the long walk from her house to school, she is surrounded and teased by a group of boys. The boys yell indecent things at her. They laugh. They push, pinch, and grab at her. Sometimes they pull at her clothes so violently that she is afraid they will be ripped right off of her body. By the time she gets to school, her face is hot with humiliation and her eyes sting with the fear that she will have to go through the whole thing again on the walk home. This is story of one Rahela in Bangladesh. Everyday, there are thousands of Rahela who faces that eve teasing problem. Sexual harassment, often known as eve teasing, is a regular occurrence for the women and girls of Bangladesh. A recent study showed that almost 90 percent of girls aged 10-18 have undergone the experience. The harassment can take a variety of forms that comes from multiple walks of life. Teenage boys, rickshaw pullers, bus drivers, street vendors, traffic police and often supervisors or colleagues of the working women are probably the eve teasers. For the girls and women who are subject to sexual harassment, the experiences are painful and can leave deep psychological scars. In the past two years, at least 12 girls have committed suicide in circumstances stemming from eve teasing. No one should have to suffer the experience of sexual harassment or the physical and sexual assaults that often come with it. As brutal and tormenting as sexual harassment is for the girls and women who endure it, however, the implications extend to the entire nation.

Load Shedding Problem In Dhaka

Staff Reporter, April 16, 2009:

Bangladesh is facing huge load shedding of electricity. Almost all

part of Dhaka have load shedding of electricity everyday at least four to five hours. In Karwan Bazar, power disruption occurred five times with more than five hours of outage between 8:00am and 5:00pm and in 24 hours almost eight to nine hours. Multiple power cuts for periods totaling six to seven hours occurred in Eskaton Garden, Dhanmondi, Kalabagan, Moghbazar, Khilgaon, Goran, Shahjahanpur, Mohammadpur, Banani, Uttara and other places. Every summer Bangladesh faces huge load shedding problem. According to the official statistics, the countrys electricity shortage has gone up 1000 megawatts (MW) to 1259 MW with the demand of 4806 MW on 2006. Authority said this year (2009) about 1400 MW to 1800 MW electricity shortage will face this year, which is almost twice more than last year and the country need about 5000 MW. So this summer we might face the problem thats we have not face last ten years. In Bangladesh electricity power is not generate as much as our demand. So every summer we face huge load shedding and people are suffering, but in winter there is almost not load shedding. In summer temperatures goes up to around 40 Celsius. So in this situation if there is load-shedding of electricity people face uncertain condition.

A PDB official said the real power situation was worse than the official picture. The Rural Electrification Board (REB) needs 2500 MW, but is given less than half of that. Dhaka Electricity Supply Authority (DESA) and Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) need more than 2000 MW power and the PDB needs another 2000 MW, he added. On 2007 government said by 2010 Bangladesh will be a load shedding free country. We have set a target to generate sufficient electricity by the year 2010 to reach a level where there will be no load shedding, said Mirza Azizul Islam, finance and planning adviser. But we dont see any result of it day by day the rate of load shedding is increasing.

Commodity Price Hike Pushes Down Consumption

Staff Reporter, 27-08-2006:

As prices of essential commodities are on the rise, low and fixed

income group people are being forced to buy or consume less than what they usually do. Sales of certain essentials including sugar, powdered milk, pulses including lentil, onion, potato, garlic, ginger, green and dry chilies have gone down substantially in recent days as their prices have shot up significantly within a short span of time, traders said. The price of sugar has more than doubled in the last six months hitting between Tk 62 and Tk 64 per kilogram (kg). Average sugar price ranged between Tk 30 and Tk 32 per kg in September last year. But the price hit as high as Tk 70 a kg yesterday at neighbourhood grocery shops. Prices of onion rose by 50 percent, potato 30 percent, garlic nine percent, and broiler chickens 13 percent within just a month, according to the daily monitoring report prepared yesterday by the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB). Prices of lentil, eggs, palm oil, flour, fish (ruhi), beef and mutton have shot up between 3 to 9 percent yesterday than what the prices had been on March 4, the TCB report said. According to traders, while some companies have already adjusted the prices of their powdered milk, some others are mulling to increase the same. The price of a popular brand milk powder, Dano, rose by Tk 30 per kg in just one week. The price of 500 gram plastic pack milk powder ranged between Tk 185 and Tk 190 on the retail market yesterday, which was between Tk 170 and Tk 175 a week back. "People consume more when things are cheaper but they tend to buy less when prices go up," said Abdul Matin, a retailer at the Mirpur-6 kitchen market. He also said sales of some essential items like sugar, lentil, and moog dal have gone down substantially after the price hike. In a bid to stabilise the market, the government on Sunday decided to expand the OMS and sell a ton of sugar in each of all the 90 wards in the capital daily from Tuesday. TCB officials said they could not send sugar till 3:30pm yesterday. When asked, a top official could not mention the number of a single ward where the OMS took place though he claimed that sugar was sent to some of the wards in the afternoon. According to Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB), cost of

living rose about 10 percent in 2005 as prices of essential items saw a sharp rise during the last year. Prices of essential items on an average rose 6.32 percent last year, CAB said adding that the trend is still upward.

Bangladesh garment factory fire 'leaves 25 dead'

Staff Reporter, 14th December, 2010:

A devastating blaze raced through a garment factory near

Bangladesh's capital on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 100, witnesses and news reports said. Fire official Golam Mostafa said the fire started in a 10-storey factory owned by local business giant Hameem Group in the Ashulia industrial zone, just outside Dhaka. It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, and the government ordered an investigation. While it was generally thought to be an accident, some believed it could be arson. Monir Hossain, a local journalist at the scene, told The Associated Press the blaze broke out on the two upper floors during lunch break. A gate on a stairwell was locked, trapping people inside the factory, which mainly produces T-shirts for international brands, he quoted witnesses as saying. Another journalist, Rafiqul Islam, said he saw at least 25 bodies being loaded onto ambulances. Diganta television reported at least 26 people died and more than 100 were injured. ATN News said rescuers recovered at least 24 bodies. Islam said about 13,000 people work at the factory each day, though most were outside buying lunch when the fire started. The company and the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association announced they would provide roughly $1,420 in compensation to families of the dead and would pay for the treatment of the injured. Workers' safety in the rapidly growing textile industry is a major concern but has improved in recent years, the association said. Labour rights groups say safety standards are still inadequate in many factories.

Shat Gambuj Mosque: World Heritage Site As A Historical Beautiful Mosque

Special Reporter, 28th july,2011 :

Sixty domes mosque is one of the oldest mosques, built in 1459

with amazing architectural structure is situated here in Bagerhat. For its glorious history and beauty UN has declared it as world heritage site. It is a Tughlaq styled mosque. Khan Jahan Ali was the architect and general contractor of this historical mosque. It is the largest historical mosque in Bangladesh. It is also one of the most impressive places on the Indian Subcontinent. I and three of my friends went there on 15th July. Firstly we had to collect ticket from Dhaka to Bagerhat and then we started at night on 14th July. The next very morning we started for seeing the beauty of the mosque The mosque is situated on the eastern bank of the Ghora Dighi. It is about 3 miles far from the main town of Bagerhat. The name Shat Gambuj Masjid means a mosque with sixty domes. But actually the mosque has 77 squat domes with 7 four sided pitched Bengali domes in the middle row. There are 11 arched doors on east and 7 each on north and south. The mosque is divided into 7 longitudinal aisles. There are 11 deep bays of stone columns. The wall of the mosque is 6 feet thick and the internal space is 160 feet into 108 feet. The full mosque is built by red burn mud or bricks. Foreigners are charged a little to see the mosque. Though you dont want to see the museum youll have to pay to visit only the mosque. The entry fee is only 50 taka for foreigners including the fee of the museum. Museum is open from 9am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm. Near the mosque there is only one very good restaurant but no residence is situated here. We saw the whole Bagerhat town in a single day but we stayed one night to visit the whole district.