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#Perspective / Cutting down trees and Dhaka’s slow, gruelling death

This year, the whole of Bangladesh is experiencing unprecedented heat waves. The intense heat has reached a point where opening the windows makes the situation worse instead of bringing in relief in the form of a soothing breeze. Millions around the country, especially the lower middle class, day labourers, farmers, and people who work outside are suffering greatly.

Book Review / Can a city be smart without adequate finance?

Although Dhaka and Kolkata, two major South Asian cities, are just 240 kilometres apart and share a common history and culture, not many comparative studies on these cities have been undertaken so far.

Want to tie the knot again? pay tax first

Life for those who are planning to get married in the southern side of Dhaka city is about to get a little more difficult than it usually is.

Saat Masjid Road / A curious tradeoff

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has faced criticism from environmentalists after cutting down several hundred trees, including Banyan, Nim, Plum, and other varieties, along the median of Saat Masjid Road

Why I feel suffocated by Dhanmondi

Dhanmondi these days is a cacophony of people, traffic, events, vendors, schools, hospitals, restaurants, and construction sites.

Saat Masjid Road: Trees felled for facelift, a new median strip

City life comes with rapid change. But for the residents of Dhanmondi what didn’t change for long were the trees and plants on the median of Saat Masjid Road. Bursting with blossoms in spring and summer, the krishnachuras and the radhachuras, among other trees, became a part of their lives.

Parks and recreation, a distant dream

Do authorities care at all about citizens' quality of life?

Saat Masjid Road / Trees felled flouting rules

The lush greenery of Dhaka is slowly disappearing, and in some instances the perpetrator behind this devastation is none other than the Dhaka South City Corporation.

DSCC tree-cutting: A development initiative or a murder spree?

Why could the development project not be carried out while preserving these trees?

January 13, 2023
January 13, 2023

Can AI solve the insanity of Dhaka’s traffic?

Before jumping into the realm of artificial intelligence, we should start with some old-fashioned “common sense”

December 27, 2022
December 27, 2022

DSCC just can’t seem to get it right when it comes to dogs

Are we willing to pay this pet tax? Absolutely not.

October 22, 2022
October 22, 2022

Are 'open spaces' really open?

With the gradual increase in population and rapid urbanisation, the number of open spaces in our megacity is drastically decreasing.

October 6, 2022
October 6, 2022

Why this lukewarm response to the rising threat of dengue?

The dengue situation deserves proper response from the authorities

July 15, 2022
July 15, 2022

Have some 'doya' for Doyagonj!

Fix the crucial connecting road, ease people's suffering

July 15, 2022
July 15, 2022

Resurrecting Lalkuthi

Barely three bookshelves with broken doors, shattered glass panes scattered all over the floor and damp cobweb-ridden walls -- such is the scene inside Farashganj’s Johnson Hall, also known as Lalkuthi.

May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019

Beef prices continue to soar

For the last couple of months, butchers have been increasing beef prices, claiming extortion on highways and poor supply of cattle.

April 21, 2019
April 21, 2019

Time to be WARY OF WASTE

The two landfills in the capital have almost reached their limit with no immediate remedy in sight. Mountains of garbage are being formed in the landfills at Matuail and Aminbazar and there are fears that the waste will spill over into adjacent areas.

April 21, 2019
April 21, 2019

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon said Dhaka could soon use the “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (RRR)” method for managing the city’s waste.

March 11, 2019
March 11, 2019

Inaction in the face of rising mosquito population

The inaction of the Dhaka North and South City Corporations in the face of an increasing mosquito population in the city's capital is deplorable. In order to effectively control the mosquito problem

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