waterlogging
Ctg Govt Teachers’ Training College / Year-long waterlogging, endless misery
If one visits Government Teachers’ Training College in Chawk Bazar area, they will notice a field inundated by water, entrances and ground floors of male and female hostels submerged, and hyacinths growing everywhere on the waterlogged premises.
Recent floods lay bare our vulnerabilities
Authorities must implement climate-resilient policies
Why is Chattogram drowning?
End the blame game and address the port city's chronic waterlogging problem
Waterlogging in Chattogram worsening by the day
Unloading of goods from larger vessels at the outer anchorage of Chattogram Port remains suspended due to rough seas since Friday, while trade at the Khatunganj-Chaktai wholesale hub has dropped significantly.
Ponds in Dhaka City: Crucial in tackling fire incidents, yet not protected
In every fire incident, water bodies, especially ponds, can play an important role in putting out the flames. And yet there is no proper initiative to protect ponds in Dhaka.
Why is dengue becoming such a serious public health threat?
The spread of dengue across the country requires better public health preparedness
The gaps in DAP: How to avoid urban flooding in Dhaka
The regulations that DAP recommends can initiate a spree of development in the floodplains and agricultural lands surrounding central Dhaka, posing a serious threat of urban flooding.
Can the new Detailed Area Plan cure Dhaka of its ills?
Only if Rajuk has the will and organisational capacity
Most city drains clogged in M’singh
Waterlogging has become a seemingly never-ending problem for the residents of Mymensingh due to poor waste management.
Minister's comments on waterlogging
We are quite taken aback by the remarks of the Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister at a seminar where he has said that the waterlogging situation was much worse in expanding cities like Kolkata and Mumbai, compared to Dhaka.
Firefighters provide boat service to Dhaka dwellers
Firemen start a new initiative to lessen the sufferings of Dhaka city dwellers amid waterlogging due to incessant rain.
Rain to persist for 2 days more
Due to a depression in the Bay, Dhaka is experiencing moderate to heavy rain, causing immense sufferings to the dwellers.
Rapa river!
“banglamotore ki pani uthse?” (“Any water logging in Bangla Motor?”), is one of the inquiries on Facebook-based Traffic Alert group after morning rain.
Waterlogging: Mega project okayed to save port city
The government is going to take up a massive project to address the waterlogging in Chittagong city at a cost of Tk 5,616 crore.
Ecnec okays project to ease Chittagong waterlogging
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approves a project involving Tk 5,616.50 crore to mitigate sufferings of its residents from the perennial waterlogging in port city of Chittagong.
Woes of two cities
Heavy rains combined with traffic congestion brought the capital to a grinding halt on Wednesday as city dwellers went through untold sufferings to reach their destination wading through knee- to waist-deep water.
Too much rain clogged city's storm sewers
The government has not yet decided which authority will implement the storm drainage master plan, approved in 2014 for tackling flooding on city streets caused by rain.
THEIR DAILY DINGHY
Ashish Kumar Sarkar, deputy commissioner of Chittagong Taxes Zone-4, now takes his office boat to work. Every day he meets a security guard who moonlights as a boatman.
Delving deep into perennial waterlogging of Chittagong city
The waterlogging plague of Chittagong city returns yet again this monsoon, triggered by the incessant rainfall over the last few weeks.
