Engineer M Inamul Haque, former director general of the River Research Institute, was assaulted by an unidentified person while he was distributing leaflets in the capital’s Shahbagh yesterday.
Water prices in the capital are set to see a sharp rise after Dhaka Wasa yesterday said that it wants the government to approve a “20 percent hike” in tariffs.
The High Court yesterday ordered the government to make a complete list of all the rivers in the country and to come up with an action plan on how the rivers will be protected from encroachers.