Helemul Alam

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

An initiative to widening some of Dhaka's choked up canals and digging a new one has stirred hope of giving much respite from the menace of waterlogging in some parts of the capital.

Even though the road digging work during the rainy seasons apart from intensifying the already impossible traffic jams create misery and hazards for the residents of the capital, Dhaka South City Corporation has started the digging work at Rishikesh Das Road in Old Dhaka.

It takes only 15 minutes for schoolchildren to reach their school from home. Nevertheless, Mohammad Tanvir and

One of Md Aslam's favourite pastimes was to spend time with his father near the bank of Dholai Khal. The father and son duo used to sit together in the afternoon, enjoy fresh air and watch boats gently glide over the canal.

Introduced as a security and traffic control measure, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport's new exit route has apparently

Although it is almost impossible to fathom, canals have been a significant part of the capital's landscape. Even in the late