Helemul Alam

City dwellers have been facing severe mosquito problems for the last couple of weeks, as the two city corporations have failed to take

Millions of gallons of untreated wastewaters, mainly from industries, are being dumped into the rivers around Dhaka city through as many as 185 outlets every day.

Dry weather, compounded by waning greenery and heavy construction work, has turned Dhaka's air seriously polluted.

Tahmina Afaz is a schoolteacher and lives at Ulan in the capital's West Rampura. She doesn't start for work until 7:30am, but since winter began, she has been waking up long before sunrise. "If I get up any later than 5:00am, I cannot finish cooking for my family before I go to work. The gas supply falls after sunrise, so much so that sometimes I cannot even turn the stove on," she says.

For months, Halima Begum shuttled between her hometown Barisal and Dhaka several times for radiotherapy at the capital's National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH).

As both the city corporations have failed to clean the water bodies in time, many parts of Dhaka have been facing a severe mosquito

Damaged utility networks of Dhaka would be the main cause for casualties in the event of a major earthquake and

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has moved to build 22 U-shaped loops along a 36-kilometre stretch of Dhaka-Gazipur road to ease traffic.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in Bangladesh while in women it is the most common carcinoma,

Given the scarcity of open space in Dhaka city, the sprawling Shyamoli Club Playground is a blessing for the local residents. But

Prices of sacrificial animals dropped yesterday at city cattle markets as traders sold their cattle at reasonable prices.

Though the sale of sacrificial animals in the capital was very poor until yesterday, cattle traders expressed hope that the sale would gain momentum soon and they would get a good price for their cattle.

Intermittent showers since Saturday is not only causing immense suffering for thousands of cattle traders seeking better sales in the capital marking Eid-ul-Azha but also causing many of their animals to fall sick.

This Eid-ul-Azha, there will be 595 designated spots in the city to sacrifice animals for the first time. The two city corporations, Dhaka North and Dhaka South, have taken this measure to speed up the management of waste, blood and leftovers disposal after the slaughters.

With the Eid-ul-Azha only a week away, traders are hopeful of making a good profit from sales of sacrificial animals this year. Prices of cattle have gone up in recent months after the BJP government in India choked the illegal supply channels to Bangladesh.

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) recently recovered Tantibazar Park, which had been under the occupation of grabbers for almost a decade. But the DSCC authorities are yet to take any move to renovate it. Once the 0.33 acre park under ward-71 (old) had slides, swings, and seesaws inside it -- something rarely seen in today’s Dhaka packed with traffic and concrete buildings.

Parul Akhtar now dreads walking Lane 17.

Aysha Habiba and Farzana Yesmin, first year students of Dhaka Mohanagar Mohila College, are forced to walk for about an hour every

The two Dhaka city corporations are going to formulate new guidelines to streamline the use of billboards to restore beauty in the

The stretch of the road near Baldha Garden in Wari is not longer than 50 yards, but drivers are reluctant to use this small stretch due