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.
Unabated encroachment, pollution threaten rivers around the capital The rivers around the capital are threatened by unabated encroachments and pollution as the government is dragging its feet in creating
Terming Bangladesh the closest and time-tested friendly neighbour, Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday assured his Bangladesh counterpart of providing additional 100MW electricity to Bangladesh’s
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute is now developing genetically modified potato varieties after introducing first genetically modified vegetable Bt Brinjal amid strong protests from green activists.
A mobile court on Tuesday sealed off a water factory and penalised two others in Chittagong for producing substandard drinking water which is harmful to public health. The mobile court of Bangladesh Standards
The LGRD and cooperatives minister, Syed Ashraful Islam, told the parliament on Tuesday athat Tk 23.50 crore had been allocated for mosquito control for Dhaka city corporations this year. Of the total
Bangladesh Bank has asked scheduled banks to submit information about import of ‘controversial’ genetically modified soya bean oil as the importers are now importing the products violating the existing
All the slums in the city will be brought under the water supply network by 2015, said LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Sayed Ashraful Islam to the Jatiya Sangshad. Answering the questions by the treasury
Amid fears of adverse impacts of genetically-modified crop on biodiversity and human health, a limited produce of controversial Bt brinjal is likely to arrive on the local market in May. Experts and
Nations risk repeating the failure of climate talks in 2009 unless they sign up to mandatory emissions reductions in a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, according to Bangladesh's climate envoy to the
Bangladesh will receive US$ 600 million as concessional financing from the World Bank to improve the quality of electricity supply in the rural areas in the eastern part of the country. The World Bank