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 Department for International Development (DFID) in the last one year lifted 258,000 men, women and children in Bangladesh out of extreme poverty through direct transfer of assets, like livestock, and
Preliminary findings of the first ever nationwide study undertaken on childhood obesity in urban areas of Bangladesh by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) reveal
Thirty six percent people of Sailkupa upazila in Jhenidah could not be covered with proper sanitation system, said the experts in a gathering with the women participants jointly organized by Sailkupa upazila
A large number of poor and vulnerable people are not covered by Bangladesh social protection system, leaving them exposed to risks and unforeseen difficulties, said an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.
The mobile phone now appears to be a major tool in ensuring smooth supply of safe drinking water to some 10 million rural people in southwestern coastlines, a region exposed to growing curse of salinity,
Ten out of every 100 children, aged 5-18 living in Bangladesh’s urban areas, are overweight while 4 per cent obese, says a new study. It indicates that there is a double burden of both under-nutrition
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) launched its tree plantation campaign 2013 on Sunday. BGB Director General Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed formally inaugurated the tree plantation campaign titled "Green Frontier" planting
Speakers at a workshop on Monday stressed the need for a sustainable fecal sludge management with appropriate technology, socially acceptable, financially viable and environment friendly sanitation system
In the wake of suspension of GSP (Generalised System of Preferences) facility by the US government for Bangladesh, the government on Monday formed a high-profile committee to pinpoint loopholes in the
The Bangladesh Bank on Monday incorporated a number of new green products in its Tk 200-crore revolving fund in a bid to build an environment-friendly economy. The BB issued a circular to the managing