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.
News is considered to be the first draft of history; it also happens to be a catalyst for action. At least in this case. On March 31, The Daily Star ran a report on the return of sagarlata also known as beach morning glory on the beaches of Cox’s Bazar -- owing to a fall in human movement in the area.
All it took was a mere few weeks for it to come back to the vast stretch of Cox’s Bazar sea beach.
At least two workers died and another required medical attention allegedly after being exposed to toxic gases while manually dismantling a scrap ship at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday.
The industries ministry yesterday banned the import of scrap ships until April 7 and asked around 100 foreigners on five ships, anchored at the deep sea of Sandeep channel of the Bay of Bengal, to be in quarantine for 14 days.
The iron-like object which fell on a village at Bhatiyari union of Sitakunda on Saturday afternoon, is part of a crane that was being used to drag fragments of a larger barge crane weighing 5,000 tonnes.
Amid fear of coronavirus spread, teachers in port city yesterday started participating in a training session to discharge duties at polling centres as presiding, assistant presiding and polling officers for the upcoming Chattogram City Corporation polls.
Relatives, activists and supporters of councillor candidates contesting in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election have been participating in campaigns, defying instruction of home quarantine imposed by government in a bid to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country.
At a time when the government has declared shut down of educational institutions and discouraged gatherings as precautionary measures against the possible spread of coronavirus in the country, candidates for the upcoming port city polls seem unperturbed by it and are continuing to hold rallies and public meetings.
The Election Commission is motivating residents across the port city to turn up at polling centres on the election day (March 29) to cast their votes using electronic voting machines as “EVM is more convenient and easy to use”.
Two teachers of Chattogram’s Forestry Science and Technology Institute have been extorting students for years by threatening them with poor scores in exams, said students providing this paper with a video clip as evidence.
