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.
Participants in advocacy meeting here on Thursday stressed the need for undertaking health education programmes. Terming the good health as the driving force of the economy, they said importance should be given to health education and promotional programmes in the greater interest of economic emancipation.
Shiree, a poverty alleviation fund supported by DFID, organised a knowledge fair for NGOs at the British Council auditorium in the city yesterday. Shiree, a programme supported by DFID with a fund of $130 million, launched its website yesterday. The programme aims at lifting over 10 lakh people out of extreme poverty. Speakers at the launching ceremony of the website asked the NGOs to come up with poverty alleviation projects to get funds. The NGOs can apply for funds for poverty reduction projects from Shiree by logging into its website www.shiree.org.
The government has refixed the fare of CNG-run passenger buses and minibuses at Tk 1.20 and Tk 1.10 per kilometre respectively for Dhaka and Chittagong cities. It also set the minimum fare of the CNG-run buses at Tk 5 and directed diesel-run bus operators to convert their vehicles into CNG within next three months, said a press release of the Road and Railway Division yesterday. A nine-member committee formed on May 21 refixed the fare in the wake of price hike of CNG to Tk 16.75 from Tk 8.5 per cubic metre as the CNG bus operators were demanding an increase in bus fare.
A fisherman and a honey collector were killed by tigers in the Sundarbans yesterday. Fisherman Abdul Mannan along with others was catching fish in Duner canal in the Sundarbans. A Royal Bengal Tiger swooped on him and dragged him into the deep forest. Abdur Rouf Tarafdar also met the same fate while collecting honey near Khalsibunia area. Local people later recovered their bodies.
Washington: The World Bank on Tuesday put the blame for rising food prices in South Asia on export controls by India and others. The US also criticized New Delhi's handling of the crisis, stating the trade bans have rattled international markets. Surging food prices have become a serious concern in South Asia where food insecurity is relatively high, the World Bank Report on Global Development Finance said. "The situation has become increasingly acute across the region
The former petroleum secretary feels we gradually need to move towards a full or near-full neutralisation of global prices ...... Lola Nayar interviews Probir Sengupta Probir Sengupta, distinguished fellow at TERI and former petroleum secretary, spoke to Outlook the morning after the petro-products hike. Excerpts. Was the price hike inevitable and the quantum justified?
The South Asian rivers show a discharge weighted average NO3-N of 2 mg/l and average sediment-bound N, that is mostly organic, of 0.2%. The reported global average for the uncontaminated river system is of the order of about 0.028 mg/l (NO3-N). Hence, our freshwater aquatic systems can no longer be considered natural, at least with respect to nitrogen transport.
Some good ideas, but too little cash, were among the fruits of a global gathering
Re-darting of the collared tiger: the tranquilizer dart on right rear leg and the collar on the neck are visible.