Helemul Alam

Unplanned urbanisation, fast depleting natural water reservoirs and owners' indifference to ensuring adequate fire-fighting equipment at their buildings and markets are the three key reasons why firefighters in the capital have a tough time during rescue operations.

These days, Suraiya Parveen of the capital's Mirpur-12 cooks her family's lunch and dinner the night before. She tries her best to finish up cooking by midnight before going to bed since she has to go to work in the morning.

Supplied water for Dhaka dwellers have become nearly 22 percent more expensive since June this year but many believe the hike could have been avoided.

Food preservatives have long injected fear into the collective psyche of the country's people, particularly after the widespread

Based Ahmed Khan, a resident of Uttara, took his nine-year-old daughter Upoma to hospital recently for a medical check-up, not

Residents of a part of Dakshin (south) Banasree are under serious risk of getting electrocuted as several hundred houses of the area have been using electricity by drawing power lines with the help of bamboo poles.

Almost all of the 3,500 lower tier employees of Dhaka Wasa drew more than twice the amount of their basic salaries as overtime in the last fiscal

The waste generated during Eid-ul-Azha, including thrown-away body parts of sacrificial animals, has huge business potential

Star has published ten reports on Dhaka city's canals between July 21 and September 29 revealing how these water bodies

Ram Mohon Sarkar, a resident of Gozaria in Rupganj, has been raising cattle for the last five years.

Though it is essential to recover the city canals from encroachers and increase its width to save Dhaka from flood and waterlogging,

Aleya Begum, a widow of Giridhara Residential Area of Fatullah in Narayanganj, is struggling with her eight-member family for the last five months as their home is under ankle- to knee-deep water since the beginning of rainy season.

Waterlogging at different parts of the city is nothing new, but on eid day it took on a new shade as the rainwater got mixed

Despite yesterday's inclement weather, the price of sacrificial animal especially bulls was still high compared to the

There is still two more days left before Eid-ul-Azha, and the sale of cattle at different markets of the capital got momentum yesterday.

The sale of sacrificial animals in the capital was very poor yesterday though only three days remain till Eid-ul-Azha.

Extortionists intercepted cattle-laden trucks in the city's Hazaribagh and Mohammadpur Beribadh areas and forced traders to take sacrificial animals to particular markets earlier this week.

Though the eastern bypass is necessary for the residents of Dhaka city to save its areas from flood but like the western part, its planning is also not done considering the environmental aspect properly.

Though sufficient areas as water retention pond is necessary for reducing waterlogging and flood management through flood

Once there was a network of waterways linking rivers and canals across the capital. If anyone wanted to visit Narayanganj or any other