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.
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Fresh areas flooded in Munshiganj
More low-lying areas were submerged in Munshiganj yesterday due to water level rise in the river Padma. Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre sources said the Padma at Bhagyakul point was flowing above 10 centimetres of danger level yesterday. Three rivers Padma, Kobadak and Surma are now flowing above danger level, according to the FFWC. Water level at Kanaighat point of Surma river have been flowing above 18 centimetres of danger level while it is above 40 centimetres at Sunamganj point.
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Environment ministry, ERD at loggerheads
The environment ministry and the Economic Relations Division are at loggerheads over accepting foreign loans to finance programmes on climate change adaptation. While the division is pushing for loan-based multi-donor trust fund sponsored by the World Bank, the environment ministry is pursuing grant-based bilateral funding from developed countries.
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Emerging economies stand firm against rich nations at WTO
Emerging economies challenged rich countries to prove their goodwill on Tuesday at crucial World Trade Organisation talks, which were hamstrung by the absence of the Indian trade minister. Ministers from about 35 key nations are meeting in Geneva this week to break seven-year deadlock over a new global trade deal. But so far, emerging markets have expressed frustration at the lack of concrete moves from big developed parties such as the United States and the European Union.
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3-day tourism fair begins in Dhaka
The Bangladesh Travel and Tourism Mart, a tourism fair, will start at the Bashundahar City exposition centre in Dhaka tomorrow with a view to disseminating tourism-based information among travellers. Amazing Holidays, a travel agency, and the BRAC Bank are organising the three-day fair, disclosed the organisers in a press conference at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday.
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ADB to lend $170m to face food crisis
The Asian Development Bank will lend Bangladesh $170 million to help cope with a rapid rise in food prices. The loan, part of a package with other multilateral aid donors, "will ensure access to food supply for those hardest hit by recent natural disasters in Bangladesh and the rapid increase in food prices," the ADB said in a statement yesterday. ADB funding will provide support to Bangladeshi government "safety net programmes" intended to ensure that some five million poor people get access to food.
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Confce on tropical diseases begins July 28
A two-day international conference on neglected tropical diseases (Kala azar, filariasis and soil transmitted helminthiasis) will begin at Biam auditorium in the city on July 28, says a press release. Directorate General of Health Services will organise the conference. Resource persons from WHO head office, regional offices in India, Nepal, Thailand, India, Japan and Bangladesh, public health managers working at different regional offices and hospitals will participate in the conference.
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Flood unlikely this year
Despite higher than average rainfall since the beginning of the current monsoon season, the country is likely to escape major flooding this year, meteorologists said yesterday. Weather experts at the meteorological department said they did not foresee heavy rainfalls posing a problem in the coming months. "Analysing the meteorological data, we can say that there is very little possibility for a major flooding this summer," Arjumand Habib said.
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Adulterated food destroyed in Gaibandha
Adulterated food items seized by a mobile court were burnt to ashes on the premises of District Collectorate Building (DCB) here on Thursday. A mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Abu Rafa Md Arif conducted a raid at Jewel Biscuit Agency at Gown Market in the town on Wednesday and then sealed off the warehouse on charge of storing adulterated food items. On the following day, the mobile court led by Executive Magistrate AKM Galiv Khan recovered the adulterated food items worth about Taka one lakh from the warehouse on Thursday and destroyed those through setting on fire.
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Petrobangla stops supplying gas to old electricity plants: Country heads for massive power outage
Major parts of the country will plunge into darkness as the Petrobangla has begun cutting gas supplies to old and worn-out electricity generation plants to ensure more efficient use of gas, officials said yesterday. They said the decision to put fast depleting gas to better use was taken by the government two days ago, with implementation starting on Sunday. "Gas supply to a state-run power plant near Dhaka with more than 100 megawatts capacity has already been stopped and the process will continue," said Jalal Ahmed, chairman of the state-run Petrobangla.
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Call to reduce maternal mortality rate
The staffs of health and family planning department have been asked to make all-out efforts to ensure safe motherhood in the country.