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 taskforce on saving the Buriganga river, maintaining its normal flow and navigability submitted its report to the government on Wednesday. Taskforce Chairman and former chairman of the Privatisation Commission Enam Ahmed Choudhury handed the report to Adviser for Agriculture and Water Resources Dr CS Karim at his secretariat office. Other members of the taskforce were present.
A draft national occupational safety and health (OSH) policy was proposed at a workshop yesterday to ensure workers' health and safety rights and decent workplace environment in the country. The proposal for the draft policy was placed at the workshop titled 'Occupational safety and health' at Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) seminar room in the city.
Speakers at a view exchange meeting yesterday said organic fertiliser from human waste can replace around 30 million tonnes of chemical fertilisers per year if the country can be brought under eco-latrine project launched by an NGO.
A low-cost housing project has been undertaken under the joint initiative of the government and NGOs for slum dwellers and low-income people of the city. Several six-storey buildings will be built on five acres of land in Mirpur in the city. Each buildings will have several 600 square feet flats.
Speakers at a discussion yesterday stressed the need for setting up an integrated water management project to avert water-related hazards, including waterlogging problem.
Energy experts, academics, business leaders and policymakers on Tuesday suggested immediate installation of a nuclear power plant as the country was facing huge shortage of primary energy like gas to produce electricity.
Rising food prices will push the number of hungry people in the world over one billion next year, a UN expert said on Monday.
Cyclone Rashmi which hit the south early Monday has damaged crops on 2.28 lakh hectares of land in 11 districts of Barisal agriculture region and on about 1 lakh hectares in Jhenaidah, officials concerned feared.
At least two people were killed and dozens injured as a tropical storm with winds of up to 80 kilometers per hour lashed southern Bangladesh on Monday, officials said. Thousands of homes were damaged, as the storm brought down electrical and telephone poles and uprooted trees. Many crops were also destroyed, officials said.
IT has been our consistent call to the government since the unfortunate and dangerous melamine affair surfaced that it must set up a central authority with the specific task of exercising oversight over the quality of food items, imported or produced locally. Our suggestion has been echoed by experts at a seminar in the capital recently.