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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SAARC food bank to be activated after summit
The South Asian nations are set to activate the SAARC food bank immediately after the summit meeting to help the member-countries tackle exigent situations after the foreign secretaries reached a consensus on the first day of their two-day meeting here on Tuesday. They agreed to help each other for increasing agricultural production by providing each other technological support as well as making the distribution mechanisms of food-grains more effective.
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Quake damage in city: Evacuation from vulnerable DU halls, DMCH buildings underway
The midnight earthquake on Saturday caused cracks in walls and led to the collapse of roofs of many buildings in the capital. The ceilings of two buildings of fourth-class employees of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) at Elephant Road collapsed and walls developed cracks at many residential halls of Dhaka University after being jolted by the moderate earthquake. Meanwhile, authorities have identified some vulnerable city buildings and asked the dwellers of those to vacate the dilapidated structures immediately.
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Fresh areas go under water as Padma, Jamuna keep swelling
Major rivers, including the Padma and the Jamuna, continued to swell Monday, disrupting ferry services and overflowing banks in some districts, where fresh areas went under water. At least one death was reported as surging water inundated more villages and washed away parts of river banks, according to reports reaching from Manikganj and Faridpur districts. Stranded vehicles stood in long queues for hours on the both sides of the Padma river as pontoons at Paturia-Daulatdia ferry ghats sank.
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Food, energy, trade on Dhaka's agenda
Bangladesh is now fine-tuning its position papers on crucial regional issues like food, energy, trade and climate change which will figure high in the 15th SAARC Summit, beginning in Colombo on August 2.
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Duck farming draws poor and rich alike
Duck farming is gaining popularity in Mymensingh, with both the poor and rich people getting involved in the business. The poor and middle-class families are doing the business by taking loan from different non-governmental organisations and the government's cooperative department. The rich are involved in the business as lenders to small farms. They finance small farmers on profit to be divided as per their share in the farms, duck farmers said.
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Gene scientists lift veil on devastating plant parasite
An international team of 27 laboratories said on Sunday they had laid bare the genetic code of a tiny parasite responsible for billions of dollars in crop losses each year. The worm, known as the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita), infests plant roots leaving them gnarled. More than 3,000 crop types are affected, especially coffee, cotton, tomatoes, melons and cucumbers. Sequencing the worm's genome could open the way to smarter, less toxic pesticides and other greener methods to curb the little menace, the researchers.
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Deal to provide tele-health services
Japan Bangladesh Friendship Medical Services Limited and Teletalk Bangladesh Limited have signed a deal yesterday to provide round-the-clock tele-health services to the Teletalk subscribers. The subscribers would enjoy tele-health services by dialling 10600 from the Teletalk numbers. Furthermore, courtesy of the deal, they would be able to make appointments with the physicians and get ambulance service, on call doctor, on call pathology, on call nursing and on call physiotherapy services.
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Parallel Universe
Listening to the earth scientists at the Tallberg Forum speaking about the likely calamities caused by global warming, I had the sensation of entering a parallel universe. It is a universe where an adaptive and inventive human race has grown to over six billion people, created bountiful and rich civilisations built on fossil fuels, and has emerged as the most important specie to geologically alter the planet. Man-made greenhouse gas has placed the earth in a slow cooker. In this parallel universe, the phrase
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More low-lying areas inundated as flood situation worsens
The flood situation of the country deteriorated yesterday as several rivers were flowing above their danger marks and a number of them continued to swell and burst their banks. More low-lying areas of the country were flooded yesterday and the situation may worsen during the next few days. The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) yesterday said six rivers were flowing above their danger marks at seven points and 38 other points saw rise in water levels.
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'Land to landless is a constitutional right'
Over 5000 landless people at a memorial meeting yesterday urged the government to distribute khas lands among landless people, saying it is their constitutional right. They also demanded arrest and punishment of land grabbers who shot dead Shaheed Jayeda Khatun, a leader of landless people at Baburabad in Kaliganj upazila on July 27 in 1998 as the landless demanded khas land.