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.
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has dropped the plan of setting solar streetlights in the whole of Dhaka city after its failure to successfully execute the similar pilot project between Notre Dame
Politicians from Bangladesh, other South Asian countries and Britain gathered in Kathmandu to join the launching of a year-long regional campaign from tomorrow for increased and targeted financing to improve
BHOPAL: A consultation was held for reviewing the progress of European Union-supported Strengthening Adaptive Farming in Bangladesh, India and Nepal (SAFBIN) programme at Sagar on Wednesday. This program is being implemented in three districts of each of these countries. The chief objective of the programme is building climate change resilience of small holder farming systems and helping small holder farmers achieve food and nutrition security by making small farming practices more sustainable and profitable.
Bangladesh has finalised the draft of the transit agreement with Bhutan with a provision of providing transit through land, rail, air and waterways and imposing fees and charges for using its infrastructure,
Japan will provide Tk 8,234 crore under its 34th official development assistance (ODA) loan package for financing four development projects in Bangladesh, the largest ever Japanese loan package for Bangladesh.
The Kaziranga National Park, abode of one-horned Indian rhino and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Assam has been facing a stiff challenge in keeping poachers at bay primarily because of growing number of settlements of suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh around the park’s core area. Poachers have been virtually on a rampage in the park since the beginning of this year, killing nine rhinos so far. This is alarming given the fact that the park, where conservation of wildlife goes back to over a century, is one of the biggest success stories in terms of conservation of rhinos.
Guwahati: The famed abode on one-horned Indian rhino and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kaziranga National Park in Assam has faced tough challenge to keep rampaging rhino poachers under check basically because of growing number of settlements suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh around the Park’s core area. The poachers have been virtually on rampage in the Park since the beginning of this year killing nine precious rhinos so far in the Park, according to official figures.
Over 40 per cent solid wastes of the Rajshahi city are dumped into drains, open spaces and water bodies, causing environmental pollution and health hazards. Even the officially designated dumping ground
India has registered higher infant and child mortality rates than Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Further the country’s position on the measure of the percentage of underweight and severely underweight children during the period 2006-10 was more than twice than that in the Sub-Saharan African region. This was revealed in the Comptroller and Auditor General of India’s performance audit of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme — Union Ministry of Women and Child Development’s flagship programme — that was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The report contains results of performance audit conducted between 2006-07 and 2010-11.
Arsenic contamination of the groundwater in Bangladesh is a serious problem. In the Ganges Delta, the affected wells are typically more than 20 meters and less than 100 meters deep. Groundwater closer