Dhaka, Dec. 25 -- Recently news published in the national newspapers has created noticeable sensation in the country. The news is that a twine drowned in a ditch by the side of their house in Sylhet. The news was published with a caption 'birth and death is in the same day'. The story is that the twine was only 19 months old and they were brother and sister. They used to play outward of their residence. On the day of the incident they fell into the ditch by the side of their house. Their parents did not notice it and after some hours they found him dead into the ditch.

This sort of news in national media gets space regularly and it is very much alarming. Often we see 2/3 children get drowned in different places in Bangladesh and most of ...