DSCC conducts mosquito control, cleanliness drive聽
The Dhaka South City Corporation on Friday conducted a mosquito control and special cleanliness drive in the Dhanmondi residential area.
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DSCC conducts cleaning drive on highway from Jatrabari-Signboard
The Dhaka South City Corporation on Saturday conducted a special cleaning operation on the highway from Jatrabari to Signboard, and from Jatrabari to Staff Quarter via Kazla in the capital...
DSCC renames roads, structures
Several roads and structures under the Dhaka South City Corporation, including Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover, have been renamed...
Polls tribunal declares Ishraque DSCC mayor
The Election Tribunal in Dhaka on Thursday declared Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Ishraque Hossain as mayor of the Dhaka South City Corporation.
Matuail fire calls for modern waste management strategy
A DEPLORABLE failure of urban waste governance has left large parts of southern Dhaka cloaked in toxic smoke for more than two weeks, as a fire at the Matuail landfill continues to spread palls of toxic smoke across densely populated neighbourhoods such as Jurain, Jatrabari, Sayedabad and Maniknagar. The...
LGD addl secy Shahjahan appointed as DSCC administrator
Md Shahjahan Miah, additional secretary of local government division, was appointed as the Dhaka South City Corporation鈥檚 administrator on Thursday...
Early, effective measures needed to contain mosquito surge
THE death of at least 10 people and hospital admission of 1,236 people in January鈥揊ebruary 5, when dengue incidence generally slows down or halts, raises concern. The high density of mosquitoes, both Aedes and Culex, in Dhaka and outlying areas is also alarming. Experts believe that the high density of mosquitoes in the winter is due to of the lack of sustained mosquito...
Dhaka Bank to collect tax, fee of DSCC residents
Dhaka Bank PLC launched real time collection of holding tax and trade licence fee of Dhaka South City Corporation in an event at Nagar Bhaban in Dhaka on Monday, said a press release...
Work disrupted at聽5 fire-hit ministries
Routine works of the five ministries affected by a fire in the聽 past week were disrupted on Sunday as their offices at new locations were yet to be ready.
Five more die of dengue
Five more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 541 this year...
Dengue death toll nears 500 this year
At least six more people died of dengue and 882 affected were hospitalised in the past 24 hours till 8:00am on Sunday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services press release...
78pc dengue patients recorded in DSCC areas come from outside
Dhaka South City Corporation officials have said that many dengue patients taking treatment from hospitals situated in areas under its jurisdiction actually came from outside Dhaka...
ACC summons ex-mayor Taposh, ex-DB chief Harun
The Anti-Corruption Commission summoned 13 people, including Dhaka South City Corporation former mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner...
Effective dengue prevention steps demanded
The Socialist Party of Bangladesh on Thursday submitted a memorandum with seven demands, including effective measures for dengue prevention, to the administrator of the Dhaka South City Corporation...
DWASA pays Tk 13.7 lakh fine to DSCC for illegal excavation
Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority has paid a fine amounting to Tk 13.71 lakh imposed by the Dhaka South City Corporation for excavating a road under the city corporation鈥檚 jurisdiction without permission...
Eviction without rehabilitation is unacceptable
THE Dhaka South City Corporation鈥檚 attempt to evict cleaners from their colony in the Old Town of Dhaka, going against a High Court decision, that has left many injured is unacceptable. The Miranzilla Harijan Colony residents say that on July 11, the city authorities used force to evict them and supporters of the Ward 33 councillor attacked them...
Sweepers demand registration of land ownership documents
Sweepers and left-leaning politicians on Wednesday demanded registration of land ownership documents in the name of the residents of Miranzilla Harijan Colony in Dhaka鈥檚 Bangshal area...
DSCC fines Tk 20,000 in anti-Aedes drive
Mobile courts, conducted by the Dhaka South City Corporation, on Sunday fined the owners of six buildings Tk 20,000 after finding Aedes mosquito breeding grounds on their premises...
DSCC fines 16 businesspersons for selling cattle in roadsides
The Dhaka South City Corporation in a drive on Saturday fined Tk 75,000 to 16 businesspersons for selling cattle in unauthorised markets in Jhigatala, Khilgaon, and...
LDA protests against eviction of sweepers until relocation
The Left Democratic Alliance leaders on Friday at a protest rally called on the Dhaka South City Corporation authority to refrain from evicting the dwellers of the Miranzilla Harijan Sweeper Colony in the capital鈥檚 Bangshal area until their relocation...
DSCC opens control room for waste management
Dhaka South City Corporation established a central control room for removing sacrificial animals鈥� waste and coordinating management activities of cattle markets...
Tensions run high in sweeper colony
A 70-year-old Montu Das on Wednesday was seen crying while sitting on the floor of his stuffy room devastated as the Dhaka South City Corporation began evicting a section of people from the Miranzilla Harijan Sweepers Colony in Bangshal in Old Dhaka on Monday...
6.70 lakh children to get vitamin A capsule
Six lakh and 70 thousands children will be provided vitamin A plus capsules at 1,827 centres of the Dhaka South City Corporation on June 1...
Situation worse in Dhaka south than north
The Directorate General of Health Services, in its pre-monsoon Aedes survey, found higher mosquito density in the Dhaka South City Corporation areas than that of...
BNP, Jamaat introduce reign of drugs, arms smuggling: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that the BNP-Jamaat alliance government had given nothing to the people but rather introduced the reign of...
Indiscriminate road digging causes public sufferings
The indiscriminate road digging in Dhaka city is causing great misery for the people, and the approaching monsoon is feared to make matters worse...
BNP leader Ishraque sent to jail
Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge court on Sunday sent the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader and former mayoral candidate of Dhaka South City Corporation Ishraque Hossain to jail in a case, filed over provocative activities in October last year...
DSCC does 40yrs鈥� dev works in 4yrs: Taposh
Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Sunday claimed that the city had witnessed developmental strides equivalent to 40 years in his four-year tenure in office...
Arrest orders issued against bosses of 5 cos linked to electrolyte drinks
Dhaka South City Corporation鈥檚 Pure Food Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants against top bosses and officials of five companies, including ACME Agrovet and Beverages Ltd, Pran Dairy...
DSCC starts Manda Canal restoration work
The Dhaka South City Corporation has started the restoration and beautification work of 8.7 kilometres of the Manda canal, one of the largest canals in the Dhaka city.聽..