Bogura district correspondent
An artificial shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders appears to develop about two weeks before a new price hike is announced. Once the revised prices take effect, supplies return to normal.
“None of you should go to bring Dad back without me. I want to go and bring him home too.”
Dengue cases are rising in Bogura, with 1,162 people infected and one death recorded over the past 10 months, as stagnant water and unmanaged waste across the district raise concerns about mosquito breeding and inadequate control measures.
Saju Hossain, a resident of Fultala area of Bogura metropolis, said, “There has been no work for several days. Sometimes there is rice at home, sometimes not. There is no money in hand either. The price of rice is rising, the price of gas is rising. The electricity bill comes to a lot of money. The household does not run with what I earn in a month. On some days the income is such that, will I buy rice or put money in the meter? I am running the household somehow by taking loans.”
Hossain Ali was supposed to receive Tk 5,000 to Tk 7,000. He also needed the money. His wife, Amena Begum, is suffering from a brain tumour. They were supposed to go to India for treatment. Both husband and wife had obtained passports. But due to a lack of money, the trip ultimately did not happen.
Forty-six-year-old farmer Makbul Hossain was sitting beside his farmland. He is a farmer by profession. But this time, there is a mark of worry on that very farmland. He cannot cultivate maize due to a fertiliser crisis. So he has still left the land empty.