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Star City
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Electricity Outage
City dwellers gasp for respite
Summer has set in with load-shedding coming back in its full fury. From the very onset of summer, not a single day has passed without outages, making the city life unbearable.
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BIWTA floating dockyard rusting for seven years
Towed to Dhaka from Barisal seven years ago to catch up with the booming dockyard trade, BIWTA even fails to kick-start the only modern dockyard facility
The only floating dockyard installed by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) by the river Buriganga at Gazir Ghat under Shyampur thana is sitting idle for the last seven years.
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Swadhinata Stambha
Design of glass tower yet to be finalised
Construction work of Swadhinata Stambha (Independence Monument) in Suhrawardi Udyan may take a couple of months more to complete as the design of the 100-foot glass tower is yet to be finalised, saidofficials
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Khoka's Corner


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Motorbike Related Accidents
Weak laws, carelessness cause most fatalities
For weak laws and even weaker enforcement, motorcyclists remain one of the most defiant road users in Dhaka city.
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Follow-up
Begunbari Canal

Cancellation of dirty allotment tangled in paperwork
The process of cancelling anomalous allotment of plots to influential organisations in the Begunbari Canal is confined within mere lengthy paperwork for more than two months despite government instructions
 
"city express"
The latest crop of quotes from the city's press -- words worth repeating, we feel, for their humour, insight or sheer outrageousness.
 

 
   
 
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