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Rayer Bazar Kitchen Market
Thousands at risk under unsafe building
DCC engineers declared the building 'extremely unsafe' a year ago but failed to launch the repair work due to 'bureaucratic tangle'
Although the engineers of Dhaka City Cooperation (DCC) had declared the two-storey structure of Rayer Bazar kitchen market extremely unsafe almost a year ago, thousands of shoppers and near about 300shopkeepers
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City Billboards
DCC has 'no time' to think of beauty
If Dhaka, the city of mosques, needs a new name, 'the city of billboards' would be one quite fitting for it. There is hardly any place in the city from where one cannot see a billboard.
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Rickshaw pullers get licences
DCC issues licences to thousands of rickshaw pullers
The authorities have finally started issuing driving licences to the rickshaw-pullers in a bid to legalise thousands of unauthorised rickshaws in the city.
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Buriganga, Our Dying Lifeline
With over 5,000 tonnes of untreated and highly toxic liquid and solid wastes contaminating its water everyday, the river Buriganga has turned into a stagnant sewerage.
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