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  Chaos on road due to inadequate parking space

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:31am on February 07, 2020

  Parking in Dhaka poses a serious challenge to the vehicle owners for there is a huge lack of parking facilities across this concrete jungle. This...

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  Increasing number of private cars aggravate parking crisis in Dhaka: SM Salehuddin

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:26am on February 07, 2020

  SM Salehuddin, transport expert and former executive director of Dhaka Transport Coordination Board, said that for the lack of adequate public transport people were compelled...

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  On-street parking continues to play havoc with Dhaka traffic: Akter Mahmud

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:24am on February 07, 2020

  President of Bangladesh Institute of Planners and also urban planning professor of Jahangirnagar University, Akter Mahmud, said that on-street parking was not feasible for the...

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  Swelling e-waste threatens health, environment in Bangladesh

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:59pm on January 30, 2020

  E-waste is rapidly swelling in Bangladesh as the use of electronic products has seen an unprecedented rise. While it raises an alarm in a country...

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  E-waste is precious as well as dangerous: Professor Rowshan Mamtaz

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:56pm on January 30, 2020

  Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology professor Rowshan Mamtaz said that e-waste was at the same time dangerous and valuable. ‘Proper management of waste creates...

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  Heavy metals poisonous for human liver: Mamun Al Mahtab

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:52pm on January 30, 2020

  Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hepatology department chairman professor Mamun Al Mahtab said that heavy metals were poisonious for liver which finally caused liver cancer...

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  Substandard electronic products lead to sizable e-waste: Shahriar Hossain

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:50pm on January 30, 2020

  Environment and Social Development Organization secretary general Shahriar Hossain said that for low-quality products in the market in Bangladesh was responsible for a sizable e-waste...

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  Hazardous e-waste management rules soon: Mirza Shawkat Ali

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:47pm on January 30, 2020

  The Department of Environment director Mirza Shawkat Ali said that the much-awaited hazardous e-waste management rules awaited gazette notification. He said that the DoE was...

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  Food safety drive in Bangladesh falters as big violators go scot-free

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 02:27am on January 24, 2020

  The safe food campaign has come to a halt as government agencies responsible for taking the campaign ahead appeared to have sided with dishonest businessmen....

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  Bangladesh heading towards disastrous consequences: M Akhtaruzzaman

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 02:21am on January 24, 2020

  Neither the government nor the businessmen in the country care enough about mitigating widespread food contamination, said M Akhtaruzzaman, professor at the Institute of Nutrition...