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.
Corruption is denying the poor in Africa and Asia access to water and making households in Nairobi face higher utility bills than those in New York, a report by Transparency International released Wednesday said. The anti-graft watchdog said corruption was a critical but often overlooked factor in the global water crisis that has left a fifth of the world's population without guaranteed access to drinking water.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday launched an initiative to strengthen the Menstrual Regulation (MR) programme to reduce maternal mortality in Bangladesh. The objectives of this programme are to ensure quality of MR and to share the knowledge of safe motherhood. WHO has invited interested NGOs working on MR and research institutions to submit concept notes and project proposals. Independent experts will be awarded grants through a competitive process.
Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman speaks at a consultation at the DPHE conference room in the city yesterday. On his right is Jan Mollar Hansen and on his left is Abu Bakar Siddique. Photo: STAR Safe water supply and sanitation in the tea gardens of the country is very poor, said the speakers at a consultation yesterday. Moreover, the administrative barriers make it hard to carry out development programmes there, they added.
The recent flood has damaged seedbeds of aman paddy on 20 bighas (one bigha is 0.1338 hectare) of land in Lalmonirhat. Different areas of the district including Kalmati, Khuniyagachh, Rajpur, Tajpur, Milon Bazar under sadar upazila, Gobordhan, Mohishkhocha, Bala Para under Aditmari upazila, Char Kakina, Jamir Bari, Votmari, under Kaliganj upazila and Goddimari, Daliya, Dowani, Paruliya, Sindurna under Hatibandha upazila of the district have been inundated by the recent flood.
The Khulna City Corporation along with the district administration launches a drive on June 29 to pull down unauthorised structures along a river and 21 canals in and around the city. The corporation and the district administration issued notices on June 18 and 19 asking the encroachers to shift their structures by June 28, corporation sources said adding that many of the structures were built hindering the flows of the river and canals
Speakers at a consultation on Monday stressed the need for ensuring the supply of safe drinking water and proper sanitation in the tea gardens. They also highlighted the need for running the development programmes in a holistic way to rid the people in the tea gardens of the present inhuman condition. NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation organised the consultation on
The government is preparing an integrated multi-modal transport policy by incorporating highway, railway, inland waterway and airway into a unique system to develop a cost-effective and sustainable transport system, communication adviser Ghulam Quader said on Sunday.
The World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit has expressed interest in providing funds to Petrobangla to
More than 5,000 people at six villages in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila has become homeless in the last five days due to erosion by the River Darla. At least 120 dwelling houses, a mosque, a temple and a vast track of crop lands were eroded during the period. The erosion-hit villages are Badaitari, Mogholhat, Kurul, Megharam, Bongram and Itapota. The affected people have taken shelter on different roads, embankments and on the high lands. Many villagers are passing days with grave anxiety as the river is rapidly eroding houses and crop fields, local people said.
The draft of the second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper has not adequately addressed two critical issues of food security