A 20-storey government high-rise in the heart of Old Dhaka has remained abandoned for the past eight years due to administrative irregularities, missing documents, and suspended funding.
In the 11 months since the uprising on August 5, the Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a total of 399 cases, averaging about 36.27 cases per month. These cases named 1,264 individuals as accused, including 243 government employees, accounting for 27.13 percent of the total.
The government is set to bring battery-powered rickshaws under a new regulatory framework in an effort to streamline their operations and enforce a court directive.
With her seven-year-old daughter, Mariam Begum, 32, was heading to school on a rickshaw along the road adjacent to the water pump at Ashkona in the capital’s Uttara.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star on Thursday afternoon, Ishraque talked about some of the issues regarding the legality of the mayoral post, his stance over the matter, his current strife with the government, and the ongoing situation surrounding the Nagar Bhaban
Dhaka South City Corporation has remained effectively crippled for around 40 days due to a contested mayoral claim by BNP leader Ishraque Hossain and the government’s apparent mishandling of the matter.
However, the state-run agency claims the water is of standard quality when it leaves their facilities
BNP leader Ishraque Hossain has begun discharging duties as the “self-declared” mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), despite not having taken an oath of office.
The waterbodies of Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara and Hatirjheel are set for a transformation.
Three years ago, after the tragic fire incident at Churihatta in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar, the industries ministry started building a cluster of chemical warehouses at the site of Ujala Match Factory in Shyampur, with an aim to relocate the warehouses in Old Dhaka.
They had valid visas, training and work permits.
It seems like Dhaka is on its way to remove all traces of its glorious past as another heritage building is on the brink of destruction, ready to be lost like many other historical structures of the city.
Commuters have been facing transport crisis today (August 6, 2022) as presence of buses was low on Dhaka streets following the sudden increase in the price of all kinds of fuel oil.
The two city corporations of Dhaka have tried many strategies in their war against the city’s mosquitoes to prevent dengue from spreading. From flying drones to detect stagnant water sources to releasing frogs in ponds to destroy mosquitoes and their larvae, they explored so many avenues.
So they thought when they took a group photo commemorating the end of their school life.
Members of minority communities are coming under attacks frequently. About 20,000 criminal cases have been filed in connection with these attacks in the last two decades.
In just six years, waste bins placed on the roadsides under two city corporations of Dhaka have either gone missing or been damaged, effectively wasting some Tk 10 crore invested on them.
On November 24, 2021, Naeem Hasnat, a student of Notre Dame College, was run over by a Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) garbage truck in Gulistan. It was later known that the truck was being driven by a cleaner in the driver’s absence.
