Dipan Nandy

Only 18 days separated Syed Mobarak Hossain from his dream of taking his family to Italy, where he worked. After years of struggle as a Bangladeshi expatriate, everything was finally falling into place:

'It's heartbreaking to see someone burning in front of you, and you can't do anything for them,' says Sheikh Rakib recounting horror

Recounts one survivor as others say the blaze-hit building has no emergency exit

For Syed Mobarak Hossain, everything was falling into place after years of struggle

Uncertainty looms over holding the next edition of Amar Ekushey Boi Mela at Suhrawardy Udyan, as the government has decided to take over the ground for construction of a “cultural zone” called Sonar Bangla Sangskritik Boloy.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital, a government-run institution, has not paid a single taka of holding tax to Dhaka South City Corporation in the last 10 years.

The Anti-Corruption Commission is grappling with case backlogs as over 3,300 remain pending in various courts across the country.

Leave behind the tangled streets and chaotic symphony of Old Dhaka for a while. Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a different era, stepping onto a gilded boat that glides through the sun-dappled Buriganga.

Dhaka South City Corporation has introduced a new server for birth registrations, violating the existing law and rules governing the process.

Walking past the Jagannath University and Dhaka Collegiate School, amid heavy noise of construction work at Dhaka Sadar Post Office, these correspondents heard a voice that cut through the cacophony in narrow lanes of Old Dhaka.

Forty years ago, Dhaka City Corporation bought the Gulshan Shopping Complex Market from Rajuk for Tk 6.45 crore. The market now falls under the jurisdiction of Dhaka North City Corporation.

While strolling through the Motijheel area in the capital, one might notice a swampy waterbody behind Bangladesh Bank. What was once a pristine lake is now just a garbage dumping site for some, while others have set up various establishments encroaching almost all of the waterbody.

To ensure better waste management in the capital, Dhaka South City Corporation has initiated a project to collect medical waste separately.

Despite amassing the required one percent voter signatures to contest the national polls as an independent candidate, around 36 percent of independents couldn’t even secure one percent vote in the January 7 election.

A total of 1,441 candidates out of 1,969 who contested the January 7 polls lost their security deposits for failing to secure the minimum required votes.

Despite the national election being over, thousands of posters and banners of candidates are still hanging across the country, causing potential hazards to the environment.

Survivors of Benapole Express fire recount horror

Dhaka South City Corporation is facing a tough challenge in keeping hawkers away from the red zone areas that have been designated as hawker-free.

Defying the ban on using plastic for election campaigns, candidates have put up a huge number of laminated and polythene-coated posters in different areas across the capital ahead of the national polls.

Time seems to have stood still for nearly six years in Dhaka’s Motijheel as the iconic Rajuk Tower clock, once a special attraction of the capital’s commercial hub, remains inoperative due to mechanical woes. Even the two hands of the clock have disappeared.