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Star City
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Careless DCC plunders public parks
Though entrusted with maintenance of around 50 public parks and playgrounds, Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has consistently facilitated encroachment and destruction of them denying the city dwellers open
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Dhaka-Kolkata Rail Link
More talks needed to sort out nitty gritty
While the Bangladesh Railway (BR) authority continues to prepare for the historic start of Dhaka-Kolkata direct train service, the scheduled date for starting the train communication is yet to be fixed.
 
Long distance bus fares
Fixed fares unfair for passengers
Most of the inter district bus companies, on different routes from Dhaka, charge less than government fixed fares but continue to make profits.
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Mayor finds city bus sheds extra hassle to manage
Commuters in the streets of Dhaka suffer immensely due to lack of passenger sheds especially during the monsoon while Dhaka City Corporation officials say they have no immediate plans to construct any
 
Local government should be strengthened, seminar told
Everybody should play a strong role to strengthen the local government in order to develop the country, said speakers at a seminar at LGED Bhaban yesterday.
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Sadarghat Launch Terminal
BIWTA heedless of passengers, Buriganga
The BIWTA (Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority) officials, currently active to save the river Buriganga, fail to notice the dirt under their own nose.
 
Chronological Accounts Of Two Gulshan Parks
Gulshan South Park
* Public Works Ministry hands over the park to DCC in 1982 for maintenance. * DCC's 416 sweeper families took illegal possession of it.

 

 
   
 
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