According to media reports, in the last five months Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, on two separate occasions, urged the concerned department to build roads and highways using concrete instead of bitumen. Rather bewilderingly despite the clear-cut directive of the chief executive of the republic no…

That the Buriganga River Restoration Project, taken to revive the Buriganga and other rivers surrounding the capital city from pollution, has fallen flat is a disappointing piece of information. The project was scheduled to dredge 162 kilometre area of rivers to bring water from the Jamuna river for…