Steps to stop wilful honking of horns
Excessive noise is detrimental to schoolchildren and can increase their heartbeat and blood pressure. Other disorders are nausea, dizziness, gastrointestinal problems, tiredness and behavioural troubl
The environment and forest ministry will finalise a draft on noise pollution control by December, drawn up by the Department of Environment (DoE).
There are around 300 cyber cafes in the city alone and their number is growing everyday.
DCC proposes, DMP disposes
The unavailability of sufficient police force prevented Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) from evicting illegal occupants out of seven of its plots and roads in the last two months.
Fund crisis puts tannery relocation in limbo
Efforts to relocate tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar under a project the government hopes will help the leather industry grow have snarled up largely because of fund crisis.
No remedy in sight?
Tale of tiresome traffic jam at Jatrabari
Commuters have to spend at least two hours to cross a mere three-kilometre stretch of road from Jatrabari to Kanchpur due to a regular traffic jam.
Plot allotted clogging drain water in Banani Rajuk shuts ears to residents' appeal
Rajuk's recent allotment of a housing plot near Banani-Gulshan lake to a state minister has drawn flak from local residents, as the already vulnerable surface water drainage there may be affected further.
