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.
Tannery relocation by 2016, Barua saysThe government intends to complete the relocation of the hazardous tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar by 2016, now that the dispute over who would bear the lion’s
Chittagong, with about 5 million people, suffers from inadequate water production capacity and sewerage systems. The city's water production capacity is only able to cater to 40% of the total estimated
Bangladeshi scientists have cracked the code discovering the genome sequence of local jute variety, prime minister Sheikh Hasina announced at a news conference at Ganabhaban on Sunday. Earlier, Bangladeshi
The farmers of Nilphamari district formed a human chain at Dhoba Danga village under Sadar upazila in Nilphamari district on 16 August Friday against environment pollution caused by broiler and layer poultry
For 52-year-old Nagappa Nimbegundi, a farmer from Makari village in North Karnataka, this Independence Day was special. After three years of relentless efforts, he has managed to revive 13 varieties of
The proposed 1,320-megawatt Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans now has no obstacle as the environment department approved its environment impact assessment report. Environmentalists and civil society
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved "Ashrayan-II" project with a view to alleviating poverty through providing residential facilities and creating employment
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked all non- banking financial institutions (NBFIs) to frame their green banking policies by June, 2014. Releasing a set of guidelines for the NBFIs early this week, the central
Environment law is not properly followed in Nilphamari district. Some rice mills and brick fields of Nilphamari district are operating without the permission certificate of the Directorate of Environment.
Farmers in the Philippines has vandalised a field trial of golden rice, a genetically modified rice fortified with vitamin A, under International Rice Research Institute. ‘The golden rice field site that