DHAKA has slumped even further in the 2025 Global Liveability Index, now ranked the third least liveable city. Of the 173 cities assessed, only Damascus and Tripoli, both devastated by protracted conflict, fared worse than Dhaka. The city of 20 million people received a score of 41.7 out of 100, a decline from position of the sixth worst in the past index and the year before...
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has moved three notches down in the Global Liveability Index of The Economist Intelligence Unit and now ranks the 3rd worst liveable city, next to war-ravaged Syria鈥檚 Damascus and Libya鈥檚 Tripoli.
THE initiative to revise Dhaka鈥檚 detailed area plan, revised only a year ago amid criticism by urban planners and green activists, has once again given birth to concern. Urban planners at a discussion that the Institute for Planning and Development organised on December 4 expressed concern at the recent revised proposals for the detailed area plan that...