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.
Bangladesh
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Flood situation grim: Army deployed to rescue marooned
A quarter of the country
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River erosion hits village in Manikganj
Erosion by the River Jamuna has taken a serious turn at village Zafarganj in Manikganj leaving several hundred people homeless in the last few days. More than 50 houses in the village under Shibalaya upazila of the district have been devoured by the river during the period. Besides, a vast track of crop land and many business establishments have gone into the river, local people said. A major portion of Ghoariea Government Primary School and Zafarganj Bazar has been eroded and the remaining part may go into the river any time, locals said.
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Coloured iftar items pose serious health hazards
Most of the coloured iftar items including the reddish jilapi, the saffron beguni, peaju, potato chop, sweets, biryani and white muri (puffed rice) pose serious health hazards to the consumers as textile dyes, carbide, ethopene and urea are being used to make them look more attractive to the customers, said sources in the Institute of Public Health.
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20 dists inundated
Twenty districts in the north, northwest and central parts of the country have been inundated so far and fresh areas are likely to be submerged in the next 48 hours, flood forecasters said on Friday. Monsoon became active again over the north and north-east and south and south-east parts of Bangladesh and adjoining Indian states, they said adding that the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Meghna river systems continued rising.
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Traffic congestion in Ctg city turns worse
City dwellers have been facing severe traffic congestion on most of the city streets particularly before the iftar hours since the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan. Residents of different parts in the city said traffic congestion has become a common phenomenon in the afternoon in most of the roads, including Kadamtoli, Tinpul, New Market, Muradpur, Bahadderhat and Alangker crossing, Sheikh Mujib Road, Port Connecting Road, Station Road, Pathantuli Road and CDA Avenue.
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Sylhet city littered with household wastes
Some parts in Sylhet city are littered with household wastes due to lack of dustbins, posing a threat to public health and causing nuisance to local people. Residents of Dakkhin Kajal Shah, Bhatalia, Madhu Shaheed, Bilpar and Lala Dighirpar areas in the city are facing problems as there is no dustbin for a long time. As a result, inhabitants of these areas have to scatter their household wastes on the roadsides because there is not a single dustbin to dump the wastes, local people said.
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Regulatory body demanded to check food adulteration
Environment activists demanded on Friday that the government should set up an independent regulatory commission and highly equipped laboratories at national, divisional and district level to control food adulteration. They also demanded a complaint centre so that the victims of food adulteration can lodge their complaints. The demands were made at a discussion meeting on
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BBC Sanglap on climate change today
A special episode of the BBC Bangladesh Sanglap on climate change will be held at the Bangla-desh-China Friendship Confere-nce Centre in the capital today. The BBC Bangla service has organised the Sanglap ahead of the high level UK-Bangladesh climate change conference in London on September 10. The Sanglap is expected to discuss the impacts of climate change and shed light on the current challenges.
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Water and sustainable development
We have, over the last few days, been inundated with news about destruction being wrought by the Koshi River in Nepal and Bihar. The international electronic media has highlighted the plight of millions of flood affected people throughout this sub-region. Our domestic electronic media has also telecast reports of Teesta, Brahmaputra and the Dharla rivers crossing danger marks and marooning more than a quarter of a million people inside Bangladesh.
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Lagoons of deadly fishes
It was 3:00pm on Monday. A man and a woman were busy catching fish in a lagoon of the waste treatment plant in Pagla of Narayanganj. The lagoon was just next to another lagoon where poison was applied on August 30 to kill the fish in it as they were contaminated with heavy metals. Noticing The Daily Star correspondent the two packed up their gear and started to flee with a bag half full of fish. They took the fish to their home half a kilometre away. "I am not a fisherman