Tarun Sarkar

After 38 years, the Central Shaheed Minar Complex is about to be restructured: the authorities concerned have taken an initiative to reshape the historic premise located inside the Dhaka University campus.

Years after some 30-40 ancient artefacts were discovered from inside the old central jail compound in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area, information regarding the total number of artefacts at the site or their age is yet to be ascertained due to an internal issue between the Department of Archaeology (DoA) and the excavation team.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has taken initiatives to set up multiple eco-parks by filling the Turag in the capital.

Four Sylhet temples have long been housing 10 Middle Ages sculptures, including a rare five-faced Shivalinga and a goddess on a corpse, but historians and archaeologists were unaware of their existence.

Local syndicates are out again to grab swathes of the Buriganga riverbank in the capital’s Kamrangichar, blocking the natural flow of the river.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has taken an initiative to build permanent structures in the capital’s Gabtoli, Amin Bazar, and Diabari areas by filling the Turag.

Trucks and covered vans stood parked in multiple rows, and goods were being loaded onto and unloaded from cargo vessels anchored nearby on the Turag river.

A narrow V-shaped bend in the Buriganga river, one of the major channels of the country’s inland waterways communications, has increasingly become an accident-prone zone in recent years.

The ruins of a Sultanate-era building have been found inside the old central jail compound in the Chawkbazar area of Dhaka.

Four ages-old stone sculptures, so far academically unrecorded, have been found at a monastery in Sylhet city and can open up a new avenue of studying art and heritage of ancient Shrihatta.

Four important examples of the country’s modern art -- a sculpture by Novera Ahmed and three murals by Hamidur Rahman -- have been decaying on the walls of Dhaka University Central Library.

As per the record, Panchakhanda Basudeva Angan, a millennium-old temple in Supatala village of Sylhet’s Beanibazar, housed only a Basudeva statue.

Instead of protecting the Buckland Bund of Old Dhaka, its custodians have been busy erecting illegal structures on the historic dam and its periphery since 1984.

A statue of lord Shiva, kept in an Old Dhaka monastery for ages largely beyond public knowledge, offers a new gateway to history as well as ancient art and heritage of this region.