Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, said, "If we imagine Dhaka city as the human body, the canals are the veins and arteries. With collective efforts, we must ...

DHAKA, Feb 4, 2025 (BSS) – Fire broke out at Tekpara slums of Mirpur-14 during early hours today but no causalities were ...

Johra and Rofikul's greening practices, which received no formal recognition from urban authorities, depict the model of a ...

A massive fire has swept through a slum in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless. At least 1,200 tin shacks were destroyed in the Chalantika slum late on Friday ...

In another post, she demanded that in the memory of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a museum must be built on the new Dhanmondi 32.

Out of 164.7 million Bangladeshi, one in four live below the poverty line. As of 2016, an estimated 3.5 million people live in the slums of Dhaka.

DHAKA, Jan 28, 2025 (BSS) - The country witnessed 26,659 incidents of fire last year (2024) in which 140 people, including ...

Residents of Chalantika slum in Dhaka's Mirpur, now homeless after a devastating fire on Friday, receiving food being distributed by local public representatives on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi ...

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Quoting family members, Inspector Faruk, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital police camp, said Milon, a father of a child, used to live at the slum at Choto Diabari-1 in Mirpur.