Mehnaz Rabbani

For the past week or so, we have been hearing of experiences from the latest vaccination drive. People were forced to queue for hours, often only to find that the centre has run out of vaccines.

Last year, 13-year-old Nodi was sent to Saudi Arabia as a migrant worker with a passport that falsely stated her age to be 27.

“Digital land administration is the need of the hour”—an op-ed published in The Daily Star on August 19, 2019 reiterated the age-old concern over the inefficiency of the land market in Bangladesh, leading to “unending anguish and frustration for the general public”.