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.
DHAKA : The number of cases of the cancers most common in men and women have shown an upward trend since 1990 while liver cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Bangladesh, reports UNB. Breast
Improved agricultural productivity, especially by small and family farmers, leads to important gains in hunger and poverty reduction. High performers on that front in Africa met the MDG hunger target while
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said all problems related to the signing of Teesta water sharing agreement with Bangladesh had been resolved and it would soon be approved. “Both countries will
Bhashantek slum residents are paying five times higher than the other Dhaka city dwellers pay for getting minimum facilities of sanitation and waste management. But they are being deprived of the facilities
DHAKA : The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the ‘Nuclear Power Plant Bill, 2015′ subject to the vetting of the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry, aiming to construct the country’s
At least eight people were killed and over 9,000 houses damaged as storms lashed Dinajpur, Joypurhat, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts on Saturday night. Our Dinajpur correspondent reported that a storm
The deputy commissioner (DC) of Dhaka district has decided to form a task force of concerned government authorities to protect against environmental pollution, especially water pollution, air pollution
Village pipe water supply project remains inoperative for years in Nilphamari district. Sources said, such areas where arsenic contamination in the water is very high and where water is not available
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) of Comilla EPZ today (Monday), according to a statement. The executive chairman of BEPZA Major General Mohd Habibur
A partnership between New Delhi and Dhaka to save the rare ecosystem of the Sundarbans and that agreement should be signed in a boat — that was Union Minister Suresh Prabhu’s suggestion as Environment