With only 10.5 per cent of Dhaka green, Chief Conservator of Forests Md Amir Hosain Chowdhury said greening the city's rooftops could bring back some greenery.
Dhaka North City Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Furry Friends Foundation to manage street animals, protect public health and ensure animal welfare.
Chattogram Mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain said at the launch of a greening drive at Biplob Udyan that the city is being built as a clean, green, healthy and safe smart city.
Dhaka North City Corporation will bring all of Uttara under a green belt, its administrator said as a community tree-planting drive began.
The e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh and the city corporation have no online sacrificial animal market this year, but several companies are selling animals online on their own.
Chattogram City Corporation and Bangladesh Bank will work together to make transactions at two sacrificial animal markets in the city cashless this year.
Seventeen temporary sacrificial cattle markets will be held in Dhaka this Eid-ul-Azha, and the two city corporations have already finalised leases for 15, several at many times the government price.
Dhaka South mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has warned that action will be taken if any sacrificial animal market is set up on a playground.
As plastic-laminated posters cover Dhaka and loud campaigning runs late into the night, candidates promising a better city are asked how much they think about pollution.
