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.
Institute of Integrated Rural Development (IIRD), a local NGO has been short-listed for one million dollar Rio Tinto Prize for Sustainability.
Americans for UNFPA President, Anika Rahman, a Bangladeshi-American, rang the NASDAQ stock Market, Inc. Opening Bell on Thursday April 9 last. While thanking the Obama Administration and Congress for their support of the world's women, she will call on all of us to declare, "I am an American for UNFPA."
Bangladesh and Norway Tuesday agreed to develop a strategic partnership in combating global climate change, curbing corruption and improving the quality of governance besides making joint effort for mobilizing funds for offsetting adversities of the global financial flue.
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday told that the involvement of lawmakers in Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) activities is the responsible for the on going water crisis in the capital. He also urged the lawmakers not to be involved with other unnecessary activities, mainly in maintaining law and order and the issue is a matter of public interest.
Dhaka is facing a new problem in the form of water crisis because of continuous dry weather condition. Still the people are not paying much attention to this problem. Water is being wasted continuously in household activities and sometimes even water taps are kept open unnecessarily. But time has come to use water in the most judicious manner. Everything in our earth is limited.
Norway yesterday pledged aiding Bangladesh in social safety-net programmes and managing post-earthquake situation.
The diarrhoea situation in the city remains unchanged for more than one month, while the situation in 48 districts across the country has also worsened by this time. Though during pre-monsoon season, the ICDDR,B normally experiences some 400 to 450 patients every day, this time it has been receiving more than 800 patients every day that crossed 1,000 on April 11.
Experts at a thanksgiving ceremony yesterday said around eight percent of the country's total population is infected with hepatitis B virus, while below one percent with hepatitis C virus. They also said that 3.5 percent of the pregnant mothers are affected with hepatitis B.
Although the country has made significant progress in reducing under-five child mortality, the rates of neonatal and maternal mortality still remain high, creating obstacle to achieving the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) four and five by 2015.
LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said many ambassadors are expressing willingness to invest in water treatment plants but the process is delayed by the Economic Relations Division of the finance ministry.