The question posed by the bureaucrat reflects not only the depth of his ignorance but also reveals the general mindset of our policymakers.
Just over a year ago, the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) adopted a new Detailed Area Plan (DAP), introducing height restrictions for buildings in a bid to enhance Dhaka’s liveability.
The Bangladesh Climate Change Trust was supposed to get back in 2016 the Tk 538 crore, plus the accumulated interest, it deposited with the then Farmers Bank. However, it has so far received just Tk 74 crore after around seven years.
A recent study has found a surge in harmful microplastics in sea salt produced over the last couple of years in the country.
The Ecnec yesterday approved a project to construct a medical college, hospital and nursing college partially on a wetland in Chandpur despite Planning Commission’s observation that the project cost may rise because of the nature of the chosen site.
Workers under supervision of the Public Works Department (PWD) officials yesterday cut down trees to make space for a housing block for parliament officials and staff near Shahid Shahabuddin Road in the capital’s Agargaon without authorisation from relevant authorities.
The new Dohazari-Cox’s Bazar railway line, which cuts through three forested areas, is likely to obstruct the free movement of the critically endangered Asian elephants that use these forests as corridors.
When rapid unplanned urbanisation has been engulfing the green coverage of Dhaka, a praiseworthy initiative has been taken to create the country’s first ever urban forest in Purbachal Residential Area of the capital.
Halda River, the lone breeding ground for natural spawning of carp fish in South Asia, has seen second spawning -- a month after having the first laying of eggs by brood fish on May 22.
A group of youths has launched an online platform --‘Oxygen for Life’ -- to help people amid an oxygen cylinder crisis in Chattogram during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Bidyanondo Foundation has started preparing a facility to turn it into a field hospital to treat the increasing number of Covid-19 patients in Chattogram.
Amid a worsening healthcare crisis in the city, Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) and community leaders have teamed up to turn two community centres into isolation centres, in a bid to deal with the increasing number of Covid-19 patients.
When reports of people being denied treatment at various hospitals started circulating on social media, a youth in Chattogram took it upon himself to help alleviate such sufferings. He promptly set up a five-bed primary healthcare facility for those in need of the service.
With deaths due to Covid-19 rising in Chattogram, bereaved families are facing yet another grim reality -- not being able to bury their loved ones with full rituals due to the fear of exposing themselves to the virus. In many cases, families and community members have not been able to attend the funeral prayers either because of physical distancing measures or due to fear of the infection.
Noted medicine specialist Dr Ahsanur Karim, who had been suffering from leukemia, died from the novel coronavirus at the Chattogram Medical College Hospital yesterday.
Bangladesh Forestry Industry Development Corporation (BFIDC), a government organisation under ministry of forest, environment and climate change, has razed 1.5- kilometre stretch of hills to make access for a proposed rubber plantation at Raozan upazila of Chattogram.
Egg collectors in the Halda river have been delighted by what is this decade’s record haul of eggs in the lone natural breeding ground of carp-like fish in South Asia.
Health officials in port city are showing apathy towards collecting samples of family members of Covid-19 positive persons by going to their residences even after they are developing coronavirus-like symptoms, alleged family members.
