Bangladesh can learn from Kolkata's success story

Government must not downplay the present threat

Dhaka ward councillor offices provide 14 types of services

Public service must be the only priority of newly installed CEOs

Street children have zero protection from dengue

Lack of comprehensive, sustained efforts to control dengue may prove disastrous

Spaces under Dhaka flyovers can be utilised so much better

Government must take responsibility for failure to control the dengue situation

The High Court yesterday directed the two Dhaka city corporations to take effective steps to prevent the mosquito menace in the capital, and thus control the alarming spread of dengue fever.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to prepare an action plan with a list of land grabbers for recovering 50 canals in both the Dhaka city corporation areas by July 1 next year.

The authorities approve a proposal to double the size of Dhaka city by adding eight more unions to both the north and south city corporations.

If entrusted with the management of city’s storm drainage system, Dhaka city corporations will play a role in resolving the acute urban flooding and water logging problem in the capital city, said Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq.

While many Bangladeshis recognise the environmental menace of littering, a national wake-up campaign, actively championed by the national leadership, would be far more effective than the occasional focus on the issue by the media.

In a bizarre incident, cleaners of Dhaka City Corporations dump large quantity of stinky garbage in front of some business establishments in Gulshan after the offices refused to pay them ‘tips’.

A united effort can make Dhaka green in three years, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq says.

Before the Eid ul-Adha festival, the two Mayors of the Dhaka City Corporations pledged to clean the city within 30 hours. And they delivered on their promise in the most impressive way.

The two Dhaka city corporations are set to clear footpaths from July 1. That the small-scale eviction drive in Gulistan on June 2 fizzled out was a foregone conclusion.

Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.

UN secretary general calls upon the authorities in all relevant institutions to ensure that elections to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations will be transparent, inclusive and credible.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said local government elections should be held in partisan manner and the related laws should be amended to do so.