Chittagong City Corporation's yearlong development work on Port Connecting Road (PC road) is taking its toll on Dhaka Trunk Road (DT road), another major route used by the commuters, leading to its miserable state.
The Chittagong City Corporation took Tk 10,000 each from 33 families of a landslide-prone slum five years ago promising to relocate them to an apartment building. The construction of the seven-storey building was completed in 2016, but the flats have yet to be handed over to the families. Instead, the city corporation now wants to move its office to the block.
The Chittagong City Corporation on Monday postponed the holding-tax reassessment programme. The city dwellers, including leaders of different political parties, hailed the decision as they had long been demanding cancellation of the reassessment.
Recently, the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) mayor AJM Nasir Uddin's comment on some ministry officials demanding bribe raised quite a stir.
Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan), a civil society platform for good governance, urges the government for reforms to the Election Commission in view of the recent city polls to Dhaka and Chittagong.
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Raushan Ershad terms the recently held Dhaka and Chittagong city elections “fair” tas no killing took place during the race.
Overwhelmed by the vociferous postmortem of the city corporation polls, two footfalls on the cityscape have gone unnoticed, unappreciated, as though coming and going on stealth.
Newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong will be sworn-in on Wednesday morning.
Though not happy with the irregularities and vote rigging during the just held city corporation elections, commoners in Dhaka city want to see their city clean, free of traffic-jam and developed.
Overwhelmed by the vociferous postmortem of the city corporation polls, two footfalls on the cityscape have gone unnoticed, unappreciated, as though coming and going on stealth.
Newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong will be sworn-in on Wednesday morning.
Though not happy with the irregularities and vote rigging during the just held city corporation elections, commoners in Dhaka city want to see their city clean, free of traffic-jam and developed.
With the withdrawal of all three BNP backed mayoral candidates from the Dhaka city north, south and Chittagong city corporation elections by noon, the national politics is back to square one.
All the three BNP-endorsed mayoral candidates for DNCC, DSCC and CCC boycott election alleging massive vote rigging by whom they identified as pro-ruling Awami League men.
Voting begins in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations this morning amid fear of violence. Starting from 8:00am, the voting will continue till 4:00pm without any break in between.
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate in the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) AJM Nasir Uddin unveils 36-point manifesto with promises to upgrade it as a green megacity.
FOR ordinary people living in Bangladesh, the process preceding the city corporation elections is not merely limited to listening to long, never-ending speeches about what the aspiring mayoral candidate can do for your city.
A total of 244 nominations of councillor aspirants in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections has been cancelled by the returning officers after scrutiny.
HSC and its equivalent examinations of all boards scheduled for April 26-28 have been postponed due to Dhaka, Chittagong city corporations polls.
