Turkish quake victims sleep in trains, tents, greenhouses

Nearly two weeks after a massive earthquake leveled tens of thousands of buildings and displaced millions of people in Turkey and Syria, many are still struggling to fulfill their basic needs and some are bedding down in tents, factories, train cars and greenhouses. People pushed from their homes in the disaster

Quader asks AL men to stand by cyclone victims

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader Tuesday urged the party leaders and workers to stand by the people badly affected by Cyclone ‘Sitrang’, claiming that the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government will always remain beside the people. He made this call while speaking at a press briefing at his Secretariat office. Quader,

EU releases €2 mn to for floods victims in Bangladesh, India

The European Commission is providing €2 million in funding for emergency assistance to those affected by the current floods in Bangladesh and India. For Bangladesh, the EU has released € 1.2 million in humanitarian aid funding to people affected by the flooding in the north-east and northern regions of the country,

Flood victims left in the lurch: Fakhrul

File photo of BNP Secretary Genneral Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

BNP on Wednesday alleged that the government is occupied with the Padma Bridge inauguration festival, leaving lakhs of flood-affected people in the country's northeast areas in the lurch.  "The people of a vast area of Bangladesh are going through a miserable time amid severe floods. Many people and their houses, cattle

Refugees are victims of political societies

The refugees that populate the world are a good reminder that ordinary states don’t fail but the world as a whole has failed. These failures are  global in nature and show that coping mechanisms of society in general have failed. The clash with economics and sociology versus politics is hitting