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Star City
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Heroin and yaba flood Dhaka
Lethal drugs are now so easily available in the city that even children as young as 13 are getting hooked on deadly addiction.
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Tejkunipara
High voltage on rusty poles
Residents fear imminent collapse
Residents of Tejkunipara are in fear as a 200 KVA transformer of Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (Desa) may collapse anytime causing a serious accident in the residential area.
 
Housing companies launch sales on false claim
A number of private housing companies claim that they obtained government approval for their projects while the authorities say they have not yet approved them.
 
Traffic police 'disappear' after 10 pm
Dhaka's traffic control mechanism goes practically non-functional after 10 at night when the traffic department of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police withdraw its officials from their duty stations leaving
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Land prices cause housing nightmare
At the root of the city's incessantly deteriorating housing problems are the exorbitant land prices that continue to challenge the wits of the city dwellers.
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Working to keep city moving
"I am serving the people who are celebrating Eid today and performing duty is a prayer to me," this is how a dedicated sub-inspector of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Sharif Uddin, expressed his feelings
 

 
   
 
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