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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World No Tobacco Day today
World No Tobacco Day 2008 will be observed today in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world with the theme
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Unsafe Use Of Injections
At least 20 million Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), 2.0 million Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and 0.26 million HIV new infections are associated with unsafe use of injections every year across the world, experts quoting a WHO report said yesterday. They also warned that South East Asia is a red zone of unsafe use of injections, saying that half of the total use of injections in the world is unsafe. Experts said this yesterday at a seminar on 'Injection use and risk of HBV, HCV and HIV infection: Intervention for risk reduction' at the British Council auditorium in the city.
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Asian fuel price rises unlikely to spark unrest
Leaders across Asia are starting to give in on the prickly issue of fuel subsidies, hiking prices in the face of $130 a barrel oil, but careful calibration of the steps may allow them to get away with it. Indonesia jacked up fuel prices by an average of 28.7 percent from Saturday, Sri Lanka followed with its own increase on Sunday and Bangladesh said it planned an increase soon. India is also considering such a move. The odd man out is China, which has strong finances and has said it does not plan to raise prices soon.
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Call to protect coastal ring embankments
Speakers at a discussion meeting on Monday called for protecting the coastal ring embankments immediately to ensure safe livelihood of marginal farmers and fishermen in the region. They also demanded immediate repair of the damaged embankments to save the lives of marginal people, saying that most damaged portions of the embankments were hindered mainly by the owners of saline water shrimp enclosures.
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Govt plans to step up poultry farm monitoring to combat bird flu
The government is planning to step up surveillance and monitoring of the backyard and commercial poultry farms across the country aiming to check further spread of bird flu. It has also planned to strengthen bio-security at each and every farm to help check the contamination of viral disease to the people who close to the poultry flocks.
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Avian flu a real health security threat
National and international experts yesterday began a brainstorming workshop to find out prospective solution to combat pandemic Avian flu before a disaster breaks out in the country. Inaugurating the four-day workshop organised by the Bangladesh Armed Forces and US Pacific Command, Armed Forces Medical College Principal Maj Gen Muhammad Maswood said Avian influenza is a real health security threat for the world community.
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Turn wastes into manure to protect environment
As chemical fertilisers are causing gradual degradation of soil, huge wastes generated from human and animal excreta, and household rubbish should be turned into natural manure by using efficient technologies to protect soil and environment. Besides, to prevent rivers around the urban centres from getting polluted, management of wastes is also very important as such polluted water enters the food chain causing serious diseases.
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Implementation of Karnaphuli water supply project to begin soon
The Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is likely to begin implementation of the Tk 962 crore Karnaphuli water supply project within a month. The Chittagong WASA sources said they had sent the project proposal to the purchase committee of the advisory council for approval and it, they believed, would not take more than one month for the process to be completed. The implementation would be initiated immediately after getting the approval, they said.
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'Implement Hatirjheel project as per original plan'
Residents of West Merul in the city yesterday demanded implementation of the Hatirjheel project according to its original plan to save numerous residential quarters and business establishments from destruction. At a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity yesterday under the banner of 'Committee to protect houses and business organisations from Hatirjheel project acquisition' they said they have been residing in the area for around three decades.
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Warning to forest grabbers (Editorial)
Agencies concerned should follow it up by appropriate action THE chief adviser's voicing of resolve that zero tolerance has been ensured in all spheres of forest administration to curb corruption, mismanagement and malpractice is reassuring. Evidently, it is set against the revealing tales of plunder of forest resources by officials of the forest department denying the national exchequer millions in revenue. Their misdeeds exemplified the classic aberration of the gateman becoming poacher.