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File Photo: Workers are busy constructing a ramp of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway in Banani. Photo: Mumit M

DAP revision allows buildings twice as tall, experts fear more strain on liveability

The advisory committee on DAP review has also given policy approval to the draft Dhaka Metropolitan Building Rules 2025

Two upazilas in Sylhet flooded as Kushiara embankments collapse on 1 June 2025. Photo: TBS

Urban growth in Sylhet is shrinking water bodies, raising flood risks: study

A view of Dhaka city. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

Illegal portions of 3,382 buildings to be demolished: Rajuk chairman

Photo: Rajib Dhar

DAP revision delayed, building heights to be adjusted 

RAJUK Chairman Major General (retd) Siddiqur Rahman Sarkar speaks at a meeting with the Urban Development Journalists Forum Bangladesh (UDJFB) members at the RAJUK conference room on 30 January. Photo: Courtesy

Revised DAP within a month to solve building height disparity: RAJUK chairman

Vertical housing key to accommodating our growing urban population

Vertical housing key to accommodating our growing urban population

Uttara Lake. Photo: TBS

Concreting Uttara Lake is how to kill it

Heavy rainfall in Azimpur leaves city dwellers wading through waist-deep water on rickshaws and vans on Friday. Parts of Dhaka were submerged after 130mm of rain fell in just 6 hours. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Dhaka's drainage master plan stalled for 8 years, new plans underway

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam receives a crest after a seminar on “Transformative Change in Stormwater Management of Dhaka City” in Dhaka on 3 October 2023. Photo: Courtesy

Nature-based drainage system stressed to address Dhaka’s waterlogging

Risky buildings: Provide evidence for objections about Rajuk evaluation, says chairman

Risky buildings: Provide evidence for objections about Rajuk evaluation, says chairman

The 700-acre of land in Chattogram's Sitakunda recovered by evicting slum dwellers is now being eyed by different entities to set up establishments. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin

Now 200 govt, private entities want to build on land cleared of Ctg slum dwellers

Photo: TBS

DSCC evicts illegal shops of Phulbaria Supermarket amid protests

Dhaka can still be made liveable: BIP  

Dhaka can still be made liveable: BIP