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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The pollution in our rivers
Our rivers are in a bad state, have been for a long time. That is not surprising, seeing that we have been concerned about the situation for years. What now appears to give it a new twist is the result of a survey carried out on some of the rivers, 25 in total. Predictably, the quality of the water in the rivers has dwindled to a precarious state. Worse is the knowledge that some of these rivers may actually have reached a point where they are no longer capable of nurturing or supporting aquatic life forms in them.
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Proposed nat'l budget fails to meet its expectations
Speakers at a press conference yesterday said the proposed national budget for 2008-09 fiscal has failed to meet the expectations of the water supply and sanitation sector. They said this sector needs to be brought under a separate budget line in the national budget. The press conference was organised by the representatives of the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Reporters' Unity to make an analysis of the fund allocation in the draft national budget for this sector.
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Wading through waste water
A residential area in Chittagong after flash flooding. FORMAL city planning in this part of the world began with Sir Patrick Geddess producing a Master Plan for Dhaka in 1917. The plan was never implemented. With the establishment of a planning department in erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, in the year 1948, planning activities got an institutional beginning. A British consultant was engaged for producing the Master Plans for Dhaka and Chittagong; Khulna was added later on. The Master Plans for Dhaka and Chittagong were prepared in 1960 and 1961 respectively.
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Fertilisers on sale mostly adulterated: report
Most of the non-urea fertilisers including the organic which are sold in the market are highly adulterated, revealed a report of the Soil Resource Development Institute. The SRDI analysis report of the 2007-08 fiscal also said that the degree of adulteration in the fertilisers is in some cases up to 77 per cent. The farmers, who cannot discern the standard of the fertilisers, are being cheated by the unscrupulous private fertiliser producers who sell the spurious products in the market, experts said.
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BRRI-Dhan 33 to be cultivated in Gaibandha to fight monga
Uddyog, a local NGO, in cooperation with IC-Leaf Project has taken up a programme side by side with the government to motivate the farmers to cultivate short duration BRRI-Dhan 33 in Gaibandha during the current T-aman season to eradicate monga (feminine-like situation). Under this programme, special measures have been taken to ensure timely supply of seed of BRRI Dhan 33, fertiliser and pesticides including other inputs to the farmers, sources said.
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ADB to provide $130m in food aid
The Asian Development Bank would provide a food assistance of $130 million as budget support for fiscal year 2008-09 to meet the government's food requirement under its social safety net programmes.
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330 infants die everyday in Bangladesh: UNICEF
Some 330 babies of less than one month of age die in the country everyday while eight million or 48 per cent of the children below five years are underweight. This is the state of child survival in Bangladesh as revealed in a global report launched by UNICEF, which still says Bangladesh is on track to attain the target-4 of the UN Millennium Development Goals for reducing under-five mortality rate to 50 per thousand by 2015 from current rate of 65.
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Modhumati, Nabaganga continue to dry up
The Modhumati and Nabaganga
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Fruit-Bearing Tree Plantation Fortnight-2008 begins today
This year's theme for the day is "Plant more fruit-bearing saplings, have improved health, nutrition and money." President Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed have issued separate messages on the occasion. In his message, Iajuddin stressed the need for ensuring nutrition apart from achieving food security to protect people's health.
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Brazil offers help to Grameen Healthcare Trust
Brazil offered to provide financial and technical assistance to Grameen Healthcare Trust to give better healthcare services to the rural people. The offer came when Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus met with Brazilian Vice Minister of Health at the Health Ministry in Brasilia on June 13, according to a message from Yunus's secretariat. They discussed possible cooperation between Grameen and Brazilian government in the area of healthcare for the poor.