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  Stop discharging sewage in water bodies: Tazul

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:04am on February 15, 2021

  Local government division minister Tazul Islam at a workshop on Sunday urged the city people to stop dumping sewage into the water bodies like canals...

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  DSCC evicts city canal grabbers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:41am on February 15, 2021

  Only eight feet of Shyampur canal exists in width at Bou Bazar point as rest 92 feet of the 100-feet wide canal was grabbed by...

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  Canal grabbers to be evicted soon: Tajul

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 11:37pm on January 24, 2021

  Local government, rural development and cooperatives minister Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said that those who have illegally occupied the canals, including the original Buriganga...

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  40-foot canal reduced to 17-foot drain

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 11:48pm on January 13, 2021

  A 15-foot-wide concrete road was constructed encroaching on the 40-foot-wide Jirani Khal reducing the water body to 17-foot-wide drain while rest of the canal was...

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  Canal grabbers to be evicted no matter how influential: Atiq

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:09am on January 05, 2021

  Dhaka north city mayor Md Atiqul Islam said that all the illegal structures built encroaching on the city canals would be demolished soon, no matter...

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  Taposh vows to evict city canal grabbers

  Staff Correspondent   | Updated at 07:00pm on December 01, 2020

  Dhaka south city mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Tuesday vowed to reclaim all the canals under the jurisdiction of Dhaka South City Corporation before...

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  Government, businesses kill Dhaka canals

  Ershad Kamol | Updated at 11:32pm on November 28, 2020

  Over 40 canals of the capital have been converted into box culverts, roads and occupied for various government projects, reveal four studies. The studies were...

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  DSCC starts drive to bring canals back to life

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 12:19am on November 07, 2020

  Dhaka South City Corporation on Friday started cleaning waste from Shampur canal while continuing its drive in Dhanmondi Lake. The campaign is part of DSCC’s...

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  Legal actions against authorities for littering canals, ditches: Atiq

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 05:58pm on October 07, 2020

  Dhaka north city mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Wednesday said that legal actions would be taken from October 20 against the government, non-government entities and...

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  Reclaim and preserve canals, wetlands to save the city

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 24, 2020

  THE sorry state of the canals in Dhaka is repeatedly pointed out by urban experts, and is admitted by government agencies, to be one of...