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.
Singapore on Wednesday topped an international survey of the best cities in Asia for expatriates while the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka was named the worst. Japan took all the other spots in the Asian
The Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) has sent a legal notice to the deputy commissioner in Cox’s Bazar, requesting that illegal hill cutting in the district be halted. Signed by BELA
Mindless earth and sand lifting along the embankments built on both sides of the main canal under the Teesta Irrigation Project continue unabated, making the dykes vulnerable to collapse at anytime.
A mobile court, led by executive magistrate Maruful Alam, fined six brick fields Tk 3.45 lakh at Kalapara upazila during a daylong drive on Tuesday. The court also seized 700 maunds of wood from a field
OVL-OIL consortium to spend $103.2 million in two blocks that it won in August 2013 ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) have signed contracts to explore oil and gas in two areas in Bangladeshi waters. An equal joint venture of OVL, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), and OIL on Monday signed production sharing contracts (PSC) for shallow water blocks SS-04 and SS-09 in Bangladesh.
The proposed 1320MW Rampal coal-fired power plant needs an independent body of environmental experts to monitor its ecological compliances required to meet as per the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
India has overtaken Canada to emerge as the fourth largest country to grow biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops in 2013 as farmers here planted Bt cotton in about 11 million hectares. In the previous
The Department of Environment on Monday fined 42 dyeing and washing factories in Dhaka district Tk 1.26 crore for polluting the water of the Buriganga River. After a hearing at DoE’s Dhaka headquarters,
The owners of around 150 brickfields in Bogra district are defying environment laws as they have been polluting environment burning firewood illegally in their kilns. Sources said the owners of the
Locals fear hills may collapse in winter due to scarcity of water, which is a consequence of such illegal stone-lifting Stone extracted from Ali Kadam is loaded on trucks to take those to different