Govt to sit with developers on land use, building height

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 01:22am on June 26, 2021

The government will hold a meeting in July with developers to finalise the nature of land use and to set the heights and setback limits...

Teachers of 104 pry schools get no salary since nationalisation

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:28am on June 26, 2021

Over 300 teachers of 104 government primary schools are not getting their due salaries after nationalisation in 2014 due to bureaucratic tangles and pending cases...

Univ students demand waiver of fees amid closure

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 11:50pm on June 22, 2021

University students have demanded waiver of the fees for transportation, residential hall and charges for other heads of which they do not get any service...

Ministry to look into Dhaka WASA MD’s salary rise

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:18am on June 22, 2021

Ministry to look into Dhaka WASA MD’s salary rise

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:03am on June 22, 2021

The local government ministry will look into the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority board decision increasing the monthly salary of its managing director Taqsem...

Students, parents seek immediate govt decision

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:48am on June 21, 2021

Many candidates of the Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary Certificate examinations and their parents have demanded that the government should immediately announce its plan...

UNESCO against dev activities in Sunderbans without SEA

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 03:24am on June 20, 2021

A joint report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and its technical adviser International Union for Conservation of Nature has recommended that...

Dumping of effluent into Dhaka rivers continues

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:16am on June 19, 2021

The Department of Environment, Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority and Dhaka’s two city corporations failed to control the dumping of millions of tonnes of industrial...

JMC to accept no application except from biranganas

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 01:26am on June 16, 2021

Jatiya Muktijoddha Council has decided not to accept any more application for enlistment in the list of freedom fighters other than that from biranganas (war...

Eviction of illegal structures from Buriganga’s old channel begins

Ershad Kamol | Updated at 01:16am on June 16, 2021

A joint team of Dhaka district administration and Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority has started an eviction drive in the Buriganga’s old channel following a...