Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
The state minister rejected the REHAB’s request for fixing the commercial price rate of electricity for developers during construction of buildings The government has decided to withdraw the requirement
With soaring temperatures, Tarai is in the grip of a heat wave. At least three persons have died due to extreme hot weather in the last three weeks in Rautahat district alone. Scores of people
The poachers have turned active in Sundarbans under Khulna district due to negligence of the authorities concerned. Particularly, the poachers, in collusion with the local influential people, are hunting
Bangladesh has become a top hot spot for renewable energy jobs, creating a green workforce as large as Spain’s in 2013, according to a report of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). In
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the Appeal Court verdict on pictorial warnings on cigarette packets. He said he would leave no stone unturned in his efforts
The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military
The government has awarded the job of setting up 225 megawatt Sikalbaha power plant to Indian firm Larsen & Toubro Ltd. The cabinet committee on purchase yesterday approved awarding the Tk 1,708-crore
The government has lifted the four-year old condition of setting up solar home systems (SHSs) at the rooftops of the buildings to get new electricity connections. The Power Division withdrew the condition,
Many indigenous species of fish are facing extinction in Narsingdi district due to widespread use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the cropland land for boosting production. The local water-bodies
The communications minister would chair the board and the BBA executive director would be its chief The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of Bangladesh Bridges Authority Act 2014, which was firstly