report in Prothom Alo, Aug 29, 2023Nearly 24.5 per cent families have left villages for towns due to lack of scope of work there while over 20 per cent left the rural areas with the hope of something better. Crisis in agriculture production has made the rural people internal migrants, finds a study ‘Poverty in urban areas in Bangladesh’. The research findings were presented in a seminar ‘Urban poverty in Bangladesh: Land, Migration and Basic…
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by Mamun Abdullah in Dhaka Tribune, June 8, 2023Thousands of Hajj pilgrims have been suffering due to blunders in coordination between the authorities and Hajj agencies. Pilgrims complained that the Hajj mismanagement was particularly infuriating, considering the massive increases in expenses for the pilgrimage this year. Bangladesh took far longer to fill its Hajj quota this year as many found the new charges related to the pilgrimage to be prohibitively expensive. On the first day…