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.
Speakers at a workshop yesterday stressed the need for community participation to ensure safe motherhood. Highlighting the present maternal mortality and morbidity situation, they stressed the need for reactivating community clinics with adequate manpower and logistics so that the pregnant women have easy access to healthcare facilities.
Health and Family Welfare Minister AFM Ruhul Haque yesterday said around 57,000 people die every year due to tobacco-related diseases in the country, while around 382,000 people are becoming physically or mentally disabled as a result of tobacco use.
Water transport owners in the Barisal region choose to either close or divert their business, as they are losing out to road transporters. A falling number of passengers, decreasing river navigability and emerging shoals are setting back the river transport business.
Farmers in Paikgachcha and Dakop upazilas in Khulna are facing different kinds of harassment, including filing of false cases against them, from shrimp farmers in the area because of their anti-saline water campaign.
India yesterday invited a Bangladeshi delegation to see the construction of the planned Tipaimukh Dam on the River Barak, which environmentalists fear will eventually dry up the Meghna River in the greater Sylhet region. The invitation came at a meeting between Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon.
By Alastair Lawson, BBC News The Irrawaddy dolphin grows to up to 2.5m in length and frequents large rivers, estuaries and freshwater lagoons in south Asia. Conservationists have expressed their amazement that thousands of rare dolphins have been found in Bangladeshi waters when previously they were thought to be endangered or dead.
A workshop with Rickshaw Puller leaders was held at Mymensingh HIV/ AIDS Prevention Project office, World Vision. Mymensingh HIV/AIDS Prevention Project. World Vision organised the workship. Press Club Secretary Zillur Rahman was present as chief guest. Dr. Jaistya Kumar Nath, Project Manager presided over the meeting Rashidul Hasan, Programme Manager, Project office was also present.
The government is going to build a new rail track from Laksam to Chinki Astana on Dhaka-Chittagong route, said a PID handout. The new rail track, a part of the second rail track on Dhaka-Chittagong route, would be 61 kilometres long. Financed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the project is scheduled to be finished within four years.
Around 0.2-0.4 percentage point agricultural and 0.5-1 percentage point industrial growths have been projected for this fiscal. The forecast was made in a Bangladesh Bank's recent report sent to the parliamentary standing committee on finance ministry, showing a 6 percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP).