Helemul Alam

After emptying the water bottle, Aminul Islam looked around for a suitable place to discard it. Eventually he found one -- the street -- and dropped the bottle there. He did not have a choice.

With a heat wave sweeping the country for more than two weeks in the absence of rain, sufferings of the residents in several parts of the city have worsened due to an acute crisis of water for the last few weeks.

Alamin Hossain, a resident of Bepari Goli in the capital's Moghbazar, was moving out of the neighbourhood to Malibagh yesterday. His

The government has drawn up a plan to give an architectural makeover to Suhrawardy Udyan and freeze the

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) have felled several hundred trees in the capital's Uttara in the last two months

Several thousand residents of Eskaton Garden have been facing severe water crisis for the last 10 days as the main

City dwellers have been facing severe mosquito problems for the last couple of weeks, as the two city corporations have failed to take

Millions of gallons of untreated wastewaters, mainly from industries, are being dumped into the rivers around Dhaka city through as many as 185 outlets every day.

Dry weather, compounded by waning greenery and heavy construction work, has turned Dhaka's air seriously polluted.

Tahmina Afaz is a schoolteacher and lives at Ulan in the capital's West Rampura. She doesn't start for work until 7:30am, but since winter began, she has been waking up long before sunrise. "If I get up any later than 5:00am, I cannot finish cooking for my family before I go to work. The gas supply falls after sunrise, so much so that sometimes I cannot even turn the stove on," she says.

For months, Halima Begum shuttled between her hometown Barisal and Dhaka several times for radiotherapy at the capital's National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH).

As both the city corporations have failed to clean the water bodies in time, many parts of Dhaka have been facing a severe mosquito

Damaged utility networks of Dhaka would be the main cause for casualties in the event of a major earthquake and

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has moved to build 22 U-shaped loops along a 36-kilometre stretch of Dhaka-Gazipur road to ease traffic.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in Bangladesh while in women it is the most common carcinoma,

Given the scarcity of open space in Dhaka city, the sprawling Shyamoli Club Playground is a blessing for the local residents. But

Prices of sacrificial animals dropped yesterday at city cattle markets as traders sold their cattle at reasonable prices.

Though the sale of sacrificial animals in the capital was very poor until yesterday, cattle traders expressed hope that the sale would gain momentum soon and they would get a good price for their cattle.

Intermittent showers since Saturday is not only causing immense suffering for thousands of cattle traders seeking better sales in the capital marking Eid-ul-Azha but also causing many of their animals to fall sick.

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.