Capital
Do we have a vision for Dhaka?
Dhaka is now a black hole: a city consuming millions of residents but has no sense of quality life.
What do Dhaka and Bangkok have in common?
Unplanned transport infrastructure.
How easy is it to be a startup in Bangladesh?
These issues arise in the context of startups due to a disorganised policy framework across various ministries.
Why is Wasa discharging untreated waste into Dhaka waters?
Wasa should come clean on sewage bills
Can the new Detailed Area Plan cure Dhaka of its ills?
Only if Rajuk has the will and organisational capacity
Dakar Rally to push competitors to the max
The 39th Dakar Rally revs into gear on Monday in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion, the start of a punishing route at often giddy altitudes that the competitors admit they are scared by.
Fahim Munaim to be buried tomorrow
Eminent journalist Syed Fahim Munaim, who died yesterday, will be buried at Banani graveyard in the capital tomorrow.
ONE YEAR OF TWO DHAKA MAYORS / Freeing illegally occupied roads, sites was not easy
Annisul Huq and Sayeed Khokon took oath as mayors respectively of Dhaka North and South City Corporations on May 6 last year. They took over offices with serious pledges and commitments to bring about qualitative changes in delivering civic services.
ONE YEAR OF TWO DHAKA MAYORS / More authority needed to deliver civic services
We have started repair of 300 roads. Reinforced concrete is being used to repair three-fourth of the roads so they will last for decades.
14km new link road gets govt nod
The government has taken up three projects aimed at ensuring smooth traffic flow on the exit routes from the capital.
19 dead in Somalia restaurant attack
Somalia's Islamist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu.
Govt issues legal notices to 28 tanners
The government has served legal notices to the owners of 28 tanneries who are yet to start work to relocate their factories from Hazaribagh in the capital to the designated industrial park in Savar.
2 Dhaka buildings tilt, 6 show cracks after quake
The tremor has tilted two six-storied residential buildings at Mazed Sardar Road in old part of Dhaka and Shanirakhra area in the capital.
JCD man killed in 'shootout'
A youth was killed in an alleged gunfight with the Rapid Action Battalion at Rupnagar in the capital early yesterday.
Cities choke on air pollution
The quality of air in the capital is extremely unhealthy. The presence of pollutant particles in its air even on a normal day is more than six times the healthy limit. If this sounds scary, then you should know that the air in its neighbouring cities Gazipur and Narayanganj is even worse, according to the Department of Environment (DoE).
Beijing issues second ever pollution "red alert"
Beijing authorities have issued a second pollution "red alert", little more than a week after its first ever such warning.
Mayor’s ultimatum against truck parking at Tejgaon
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq issues a November 27 ultimatum to stop truck and covered van parking in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area.
Rickshaw puller stabbed to death in Dhaka
A rickshaw puller was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in the capital’s Adabor area early today.
India truck crash kills 18 workers
At least 18 workers have been killed after the truck they were traveling in overturned in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh