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 Equity and Justice Working Group, Equitybd, has advised the government to consult the affected people, political parties, experts and relevant people before formulating the revised climate change strategy and action plan.
About 13,847 were afflicted by diarrhoea and at least five people died in the country in the past seven days due to lack of pure drinking water and consumption of stale and contaminated food, said sources at the Directorate-General of Health Services
With the view to increase health awareness and enrich level of health knowledge, Apollo Hospitals Dhaka organised Heath Care Awareness Programme for the Staffs of Lanka BangIa Securities at its Banani Office in the capital.
Cyclone Bijli hit the Cox'sbazar and Chittagong coasts with a maximum windspeed of 90 kilometres an hour at 7:30 PM last night. The cyclone was crossing the costal areas when the report filed late last night.
Social Development Foundation (SDF) is implementing $101 million (Tk 660 crore) three key projects with an aim to address the country's acute poverty, rebuild and rehabilitate disaster-hit localities as around 5.6 crore people still live at or below the poverty line.
Novo Nordisk, a leading healthcare company in diabetic care has launched modern insulins named NovoMix
Several lakh people living in the coastal areas of Bhola district are highly vulnerable to cyclones and tidal surges as the shelters constructed the purpose are too inadequate to accommodate the large number of people during natural disasters.
Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need to consider the impacts of climate change while preparing the national budget. The seminar titled 'Climate change: Its impact on health and environment' was organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa) at Dhaka Reporters Unity auditorium.
JUST how neglected the Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been since the country's independence is driven home by some eye-opening statistics cited at a roundtable recently. Not only has it lost over 40 percent of its land resource to illegal occupation, the size of its inventory with which it had originally begun in 1971 has also shrunk terribly over time.
A man was trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants at Hazachhara village in Barkal upazila early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 30, son of Md Barek of the village. Police and locals said around eight elephants also destroyed two tin-shed houses and a banana plantation when they entered the village in search of food at about 2:00am.