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Pollution all around
| Updated at 04:47am on October 26, 2018
Dhaka can be a classic example for uncontrolled and unplanned urbanisation which causes havocs on city people through pollution, congestion, disparity and exclusion in urban...
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Pollution from solid waste spreads in Dhaka as authorities indifferent
Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 04:17am on October 26, 2018
All types of pollutions including air and water pollutions continued in the capital over the years as the authorities concerned failed to take pragmatic actions...
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Safe drinking water still elusive for Dhaka citizens
Sadiqur Rahman | Updated at 04:16am on October 26, 2018
People in Dhaka have been facing waterborne health threats as they are yet to be provided with safe water....
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Pollutions leave Dhaka city in sorry state
Sadiqur Rahman and Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 04:15am on October 26, 2018
The Global Liveability Index 2018 has ranked Dhaka as the second least liveable city of the world, closely following the war-ravaged Syria’s Damascus....
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Outcry as guidebooks turn epidemic
| Updated at 02:59am on October 19, 2018
Teachers and guardians have expressed serious concerns about the widespread use of guidebook and sought immediate steps to stop the menace in order to save...
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Law banning guidebook remains on paper: Siddiqur Rahman
Mohiuddin Alamgir | Updated at 02:31am on October 19, 2018
Law and a High Court order prohibiting printing, import, sale and marketing of notebooks and guidebooks by and large remain on paper as rampant uses...
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Guidebooks killing students’ creativity
Mohiuddin Alamgir | Updated at 02:28am on October 19, 2018
Increasing availability of banned guidebooks and notebooks amid lacklustre monitoring remains an impediment to fostering creative and thinking faculties among the learners as one of...
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Housing for all still a dream
| Updated at 02:08am on October 12, 2018
Housing is treated as the basic and constitutional right of the people in Bangladesh. As a signatory of several national and international policy documents, Bangladesh...
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Ctg people still struggle for a house
Ferdous Ara | Updated at 01:24am on October 12, 2018
Most of Chattogram people have to struggle hard to get their dream apartment or plot as their ability does not match the ever increasing price....
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Adequate housing eludes most people in country
Emran Hossain | Updated at 01:22am on October 12, 2018
Almost five decades after the country earned its independence, adequate affordable housing still eludes most of its citizens as rich-poor divide keeps widening....