12 acres of Meghna leased out illegally
The district administration in Munshiganj violated law by leasing out a 12-acre foreshore and floodplains of the Meghna in Char Betagi, said National River Conservation Commission Chairman Muzibur Rahman Howlader.
4y ago
Fresh onslaught on Meghna
A river under onslaught. An open defiance of a High Court order. And inept river custodians.
4y ago
Curious foreign trip
A team of soon-to-retire engineers and an administration official are leaving for the US and the UK on a two-week trip ostensibly to learn about digging canals, protecting river banks, restoring embankments, and dredging rivers, which they had been doing for over three decades.
4y ago
IF RIVERS DIE, SO WILL WE
What was once considered encroachment has become outright murder. But the seriousness of the crime has done little to deter a carnival of corruption plaguing river management.
5y ago
2009 HC Verdict: What the court directed and what’s been done
The apex court in 2009 directed the government to demarcate the original territory of the four Dhaka rivers -- Buriganga, Turag, Balu Shitalakhya -- restore those rivers to their original state and protect them against grabbing and from pollution.
5y ago
95pc structures in Rajuk area non-compliant
Over 95 percent of the structures under Rajuk’s jurisdiction were built without building approval, according to survey findings for the ongoing revision of the capital city’s Detailed Area Plan (DAP).
5y ago
National Building Code: Disregarded all along
Despite tragic loss of lives and properties in repeated building disasters, the country’s national building code has been lying largely unimplemented for 26 years, getting obsolete in the absence of an enforcement authority, said leading professionals.
5y ago
Authorities’ inaction put rivers in peril
The deplorable conditions of the rivers around Dhaka city and elsewhere in the country due to encroachment and pollution are the result of inaction of the river custodians and their complicity with the grabbers for decades, National River Conservation Commission Chairman Muzibur Rahman Howlader has said.
5y ago
January 16, 2016
Good news for Mongla people
A nine-kilometre river embankment and three under-construction water regulators would save thousands of inhabitants of the coastal town of Mongla from recurrent tidal surge by the end of this year, said the local mayor and officials concerned.
January 8, 2016
Not ready to face catastrophe
With the risk of a major earthquake to cause colossal devastation any time, Bangladesh still lacks elementary awareness with preparedness lying in a deplorable state, according to eminent seismic experts.
December 20, 2015
Safe water for all in Khulna in 2 years
Half of 1.5 million Khulna city dwellers are eyeing an end to their chronic water crisis as an ambitious scheme to supply 110 million
October 31, 2015
Fencing at Bangladesh parliament draws flak
Authorities are still going ahead with fencing the plazas and sprawling lawns of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on “security grounds”, despite professionals' criticism that it would only undermine the parliament building's architectural grandeur. Security experts want a concrete wall and iron bars on top of it saying it was necessary to stop any approaching vehicles breaching the security, according to various sources.
October 28, 2015
Not a good place for the sick
Seventy-year-old Elahi Nawaz with a broken thighbone was lucky to get some 'room' for admission in a filthy abandoned space at the country's biggest public hospital attached to Dhaka Medical College.
September 9, 2015
Dhaka city canals dying
The last remaining canals in the capital are being choked to death with the authorities doing little to nothing to save them, making the city vulnerable to waterlogging even after a moderate rain.
September 6, 2015
Double disaster in the making
The city dwellers will have to face a severe water and drainage crisis in near future unless the wholesale destruction of floodplains and wetlands ceases immediately, experts have warned.
August 5, 2015
Toll in guise of security?
A ward councillor has been collecting money from businesses and residents in the capital's Arambagh, Fakirapool and adjacent areas
July 5, 2015
One point trouble
It was a traffic nightmare around Bashundhara City shopping mall in the capital yesterday.
June 21, 2015
Rajuk knew it all, stayed inactive
Rajuk was well aware of inadequate on site safety measures at least three and a half months before the National Bank (NBL) foundation pit collapse, but it failed to act.
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