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 International Centre for Diarrheal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has been nominated for a scale-up grant of up to $ 2.0 million by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the government of
The fifth South Asian conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-V) has been inaugurated in Bhaktapur on Monday, with the declaration of Bhaktapur as an open-defecation free (ODF) district. President Ram Baran
Camera trapped census of the Bengal Tiger population and monitoring in the Sundarbans kicked off here today. More than a thousand field workers are using 89 cameras for trapping to count the total tiger
The historical ties between 28-member European Union and 49 least developed countries (LDCs) should be strengthened to achieve climate-smart development. This is also vital for cutting back global carbon
A three-member search committee has been formed to look for a capable chairman and four members for forming the National River Protection Commission as per the guideline of National River Protection Commission
New research suggests that extreme weather events will keep people poor in many parts of the world. The authors argue that where disasters like drought are prevalent, they can be the most important
But level of hunger remains at ‘alarming levels’, says report India has improved its ranking from 65 to 63 in the Global Hunger Index, making a marginal improvement since 2012, but continues to languish far behind other emerging economies. The score for the country improved slightly from 22.9 in 2012 to 21.3 this year. As has been the trend, within SAARC countries too, India continued to trail behind Pakistan and Bangladesh on the index.
The rate of reduction in hunger is slower than poverty in the country while the rate of decline has slowed down in both cases, according to Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank.
Two children were injured and 100 houses damaged as a tornado hit four villages under Bholahat and Nochole upazilas in Chapainawabganj district Sunday night. Sources in the local administration said that
World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have promised $1.8 billion aid to Bangladesh. The assurance was given at the annual conference of the multi-lateral lending agencies in Washington.