Helemul Alam

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

With the aim to spare people sufferings, particularly from traffic jams, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)

A thick black patch of sewage covers the road and entrance to Bangladesh Association for the Aged and Institute of Geriatric Medicine

Dhaka South City Corporation suspended construction work of Shaheed Asad Sarani Museum in 2013 due to funds shortage, after

We published 12 stories on Dhaka's as many parks between April 28 and June 4 revealing how the public spaces were destroyed, occupied or threatened due to the city corporations' direct involvement or negligence.

At age four, Farhan Tanvir Tipto did not know how to run. When his father Shahed Siddique noticed it one day, he got scared and immediately took the kid to hospital but the doctor found nothing wrong. He just advised him to let his son run in open spaces.

Residents of Nazirabazar in Old Dhaka have taken it upon themselves to better their lives by taking care of Shikkatuli Park. The park is

Over 1,000 families living in North and East Kazipara in the capital have been facing a severe water crisis for about two months.

Residents of some parts of the capital have been facing a drinking water crisis for the last several years. The water they are supplied with has a bad odour.

The residents of Indira Road and Razabazar are facing immense sufferings as road excavations are going on day after day in the

Though it is not as big as other iftar markets in the capital, the iftar bazar at Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur has gained popularity with customers for its kebabs, and beef and mutton chaaps.

Baily Road in the capital has become one of the most popular spots to buy iftar items from due to the variety of food items it offers.

In line with 400-year-long tradition of Dhaka city, over 100 makeshift shops were set up soon after Zohr prayers at the iftar market in Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar with tantalising iftar dishes on the third day of Ramadan.

Covering only 0.03 acres, the tiny triangular space at the intersection of Bangshal and Kazi Alauddin roads looks shabby and hardly