Dipan Nandy

On paper, the basic salary of an officer-in-charge (OC) of a police station in Bangladesh is Tk 22,000 under the ninth national pay scale.

Sanjay Gomez was crossing the road via the Farmgate footbridge with his daughter when he told her, “Put on your mask.” Asked why, he replied, “This footbridge had an escalator installed. Now it looks more like a garbage bin.”

With the monsoon setting in, southern part of Dhaka city braces for a fresh spell of waterlogging, as the city corporation has yet to take effective measures to mitigate the perennial problem despite identifying 30 highly vulnerable areas nearly two years ago.

A 20-storey government high-rise in the heart of Old Dhaka has remained abandoned for the past eight years due to administrative irregularities, missing documents, and suspended funding.

In the 11 months since the uprising on August 5, the Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a total of 399 cases, averaging about 36.27 cases per month. These cases named 1,264 individuals as accused, including 243 government employees, accounting for 27.13 percent of the total.

The government is set to bring battery-powered rickshaws under a new regulatory framework in an effort to streamline their operations and enforce a court directive.

With her seven-year-old daughter, Mariam Begum, 32, was heading to school on a rickshaw along the road adjacent to the water pump at Ashkona in the capital’s Uttara.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star on Thursday afternoon, Ishraque talked about some of the issues regarding the legality of the mayoral post, his stance over the matter, his current strife with the government, and the ongoing situation surrounding the Nagar Bhaban

Dhaka South City Corporation has remained effectively crippled for around 40 days due to a contested mayoral claim by BNP leader Ishraque Hossain and the government’s apparent mishandling of the matter.

However, the state-run agency claims the water is of standard quality when it leaves their facilities

BNP leader Ishraque Hossain has begun discharging duties as the “self-declared” mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), despite not having taken an oath of office.

More than a month has passed since Nagar Bhaban, the headquarters of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), was locked down amid protests by supporters of BNP leader Ishraque Hossain, who is demanding to be sworn in as DSCC mayor following a court verdict.

The familiar city now appears in an unfamiliar form—no traffic jams, no honking, no packed footpaths

To deploy 20,000 sanitation workers

Though 20 cattle markets in Dhaka officially started operating from yesterday, the number of customers remains very low.

Rajib Hasan of Tantibazar returned home empty-handed yesterday for the third time in 10 days. Each visit to Nagar Bhaban, in search of his daughter’s birth certificate, ended in frustration.

Standoff over Ishraque Hossain’s mayoral post halts civic services in half of Dhaka

Officials of the local government ministry are discussing when BNP leader Ishraque Hossain will be sworn in.

City corporations yet to finalise leases

The ongoing movement demanding Ishraque Hossain’s immediate swearing-in as mayor of Dhaka south spread across several key locations in the capital yesterday, including Matsya Bhaban, Kakrail, and the Jatiya Press Club.