From pedestrians being killed by falling building parts and other infrastructure failures to workers losing their lives in totally preventable accidents, the perils that ordinary people face are appalling.

Just four days ago, five-year-old Adiba got her new uniform to start her pre-primary school in Shariatpur’s Gosairhat upazila.

The family of Puja Sarkar, a scientist at Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, who was killed in a road accident last Sunday at Boliarpur on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar, is still lamenting the untimely death of their daughter as today was her birthday.

He got off the train just to get a paan. All his career he must have done it hundreds of times, but this would be his last.