Qatar evicts hundreds of migrant workers as WC looms

Qatari authorities have evicted hundreds of migrant workers from buildings in central Doha, casting a new shadow over the countdown to the World Cup, residents and workers said Saturday. Municipal workers and security guards moved into about 12 buildings late on Wednesday to clear and lock them, according to local residents,

A welcome move indeed

A news report published in The News Times on Sunday drew our attention. The report says a mobile court of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in a drive on Saturday demolished two unauthorised police boxes built on footpath in front of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital (SSMCH) in the capital.

Eviction fear grips Sitakunda Tripura ethnic community

The ethnic Tripura community of Sonaichhari in Sitakunda upazila, Chattogram are in constant fear as some local influential people have allegedly been trying to evict them from their century-old land. Tripuras live in different areas of Bangladesh, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sitakunda and Mirsarai upazilas of Chittagong, Bilonia upazila of