Dark Cloud on the Horizon
Dark Cloud on the Horizon
Many impede people living on the street. River erosion, tidal wave and other calamities are turning many village people on the breadline, forcing them to migrant to the capital with the hope of getting some work for a living. The disable people have way out begging. Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2 February 2008. © Monirul Alam
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Daily Life
Daily Life
Kerosene vendor push his two wheel van rainy day in the Dhaka city. Recently the caretaker government increase prices of petroleum products for the second time during its term, 15 months into the last hike. The new price of kerosene is Tk 55 a litre about 37.5 percent or 15 Tk more than their earlier price of Tk. 40 a litre. A rural people mostly use kerosene as a fuel.16 July 2008 Dhaka, Bangladesh. © Monirul Alam
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Migrant Labor
Migrant Labor
Labor is using tube well for drinking water at river Turag on the outskirts of the capital. Thousands of labors from northern part of the country migrate to Dhaka to work as day labors. They are forced to move here for 3- 6 months because there is no work for them in their native villages. Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka Bangladesh 21 January 2007 © Monirul Alam
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Climate Refugees
Climate Refugees
Bangladesh presently badly affected countries of the world from climate changes. The world temperature is raising at the moment countries unchecked; by 2050 nearly one-fifth south part of Bangladesh will go under water the sea. As a result, besides acute food crisis at least 2- million people will lose their habitations and become climate refugees. 9 May 2007 Dhaka, Bangladesh.© Monirul Alam
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People in the News July 2008
People in the News
A huge number of launches idle stands at Buriganga River near the launch terminal in the capital of Dhaka. Water transport workers go on a countrywide strike demanding a salary hike. Around 1.25 lack workers engaged in the water transport sector. 13 July 2008 Dhaka Bangladesh. © Monirul Alam
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New articals Published
please see and read my recent artical which is published Prothom Alo on 5 July 2008
http://www.prothom-alo.com/archive/news_details_mcat.php?dt=2008-07-05&issue_id=974&cat_id=4&nid=MTA2NzQ1&mid=NA==
-monirul
13 july 2008
Dhaka
Price Hike in Fuel
Price Hike in Fuel
Most of the motor cycle rider gathered fuel station for fuel. The caretaker government increase prices of petroleum products for the second time during its term, 15 months into the last hike. The new price of octane is Tk 90 a litre, which is 24 percent or Tk 23 more than their earlier price of Tk 67. Dhaka, Bangladesh 30 June 2008.
© Monirul Alam
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People in the News July
Water-Logging
The school is boy returning home with his father under rainy water. Flash flood is regular phenomenon in the Dhaka city. In the rainy season people’s daily life is suffering more then the other season. Sewerage system is not work properly. Water-logging problems irritated city life’s permanently. Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2 July 2008. © Monirul Alam









