Bangladesh's climate crisis is usually pictured as floods and cyclones. But for millions of informal workers in Dhaka, the real threat is quieter: heat that follows them from their tin roofed homes to construction sites, garment factories and rickshaw seats, with nowhere left to escape it.

At dawn, when Dhaka is just beginning to stir, thousands of rickshaw pullers set off on their daily grind.

We must honour their sacrifices in July uprising through proper initiatives and reforms

I was passing through the road after a visit to the Karwan Bazar. Suddenly, I saw a young man rushing down from a rickshaw and speeding away

Mohammad Alauddin, who drives a CNG-run three-wheeler on hire for a living, had waited to no avail for passengers at Pallabi of Dhaka yesterday during the usual peak hours from 10:00am to 12:27pm.

What kind of a country do we live in where 60-year-olds are forced to pull rickshaws to earn livelihood?

The Jatiya Rickshaw-Van Shramik League yesterday suspended their road block movement, following assurances of separate lanes on highways for rickshaws and a relax on the ban on the three-wheelers in three major city roads.

Several thousand rickshaw-pullers yesterday blocked Atish Dipankar Road, protesting the new ban on rickshaws on three major roads in the capital.