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.
Participants in a round table stressed the need for identifying tuberculosis infected people to curb spread of the disease. Many TB patients could not be identified due to ignorance, they said while talking in the meeting titled
Millions of migrants across Southeast Asia are vulnerable to HIV infection as they lack access to AIDS-related services and legal or social protection, an joint ASEAN-UN report said Thursday. In Thailand, which has more comprehensive data, migrant fishermen showed HIV infection rates of up to 9.0 per cent, according to the report published here by the Association of Southeast
Primary and mass education Rasheda K Choudhury on Thursday underscored the need for implementation of the just formulated national climate change strategy and action plan in a people
Some 10 lakh people have been suffering from various kinds of cancer in the country while around two lakh people are being added to the figure every year.
The Australian High Commission announced funding of its first project under its Direct Aid Programme 2008-09 to support Bandarban hill district families. The Australian high commissioner, Douglas Foskett, handed over a cheque for Tk 7 lakh to Green Hill, a local NGO from Rangamati. Moung Thowai Chiang, executive director of Green Hill, accepted the cheque on behalf of the organisation.
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has opened solid waste management offices in some targeted wards in the city to improve its waste collection system. As solid waste management requires close cooperation of the citizens, they can make recommendations, comments or lodge complaints to the ward waste management offices so that the DCC can respond promptly, DCC sources told BSS on Wednesday.
THE commerce adviser has aptly suggested that our import polices be reviewed to incorporate health and hygiene issues. The point is highly relevant as consumers are still in confusion about the melamine-tainted milk powder which has cast a shadow of doubt on the whole array of dairy products. Confusion persists.
Agriculture and Water Resources Adviser CS Karim at a workshop yesterday said the cells for climate change impacts are being formed at different ministries to bring this major issue into the mainstream.
Pollution at Kaptai Lake is taking a serious turn due to open defecation by the slum dwellers and unabated dumping of garbage and wastes everyday, causing waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery and jaundice.
Over a million people are struggling without proper homes and at greater risk of disease than before, almost one year after cyclone Sidr ravaged parts of Bangladesh, Oxfam said on Wednesday. Cyclone Sidr, the country's worst cyclone since 1991, ripped through over a dozen coastal districts on Nov. 15 last year, killing more than 3,300 people and displacing millions.