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.
Speakers at a roundtable on Thursday stressed incorporation of the impacts of climate change into the new health policy. The daily Prothom Alo and ICDDR,B organised the roundtable on climate changes: emerging health problem and strategies to combat it at the ICDDR,B auditorium to mark World Health Day. The day was observed on April 7 with the theme
Eminent educationist Prof Muzaffer Ahmad yesterday called on the government to introduce food rationing for class three and four government employees to tackle the situation resulting from price hike of essentials. "Hunger could be lessened through food rationing for class three and four employees, which can be introduced by reducing the rations of another section of employees up to 50 percent. Increasing the salary of employees cannot reduce hunger," he said at a seminar.
The Forest Department yesterday seized 286 birds of three species from a residence at Uttara in the city. Forrest officials said though the birds are pet ones, they seized the birds as those were smuggled in. The seized species -- Love Birds, Rose Ring Parakeet and Australian Parakeet -- were kept in 40 cases at a house of Kawsar Ahmed of Road-13 at Section-7 of Uttara. Forrest officials said the birds were smuggled by Pakistani national Mohammad Nomanuddin. He had been carrying out the illegal business in collaboration with one Bazlur Rahman.
Social stability will be shattered if the price-hike of food continues, said the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The impact of the soaring prices of food on the poorer section of the people is very significant and may turn out to be devastating, said the president of the MCCI, Latifur Rahman, at a meeting with the Bangladesh Bank's governor, Salehuddin Ahmed, on Wednesday. Market imperfections, domestic supply shortfalls and imported inflation are the three main reasons behind the rising inflation, he pointed out.
The interim administration has initiated a move to adjust costs of ongoing projects under a compensation scheme amid rapid increase in construction material prices which has adversely affected the ADP implementation.
Amid a deepening world hunger crisis, leading food aid groups are calling for a
The government is going to float a budgetary fund from the next fiscal year for mitigating the effects of natural calamities, the finance and planning adviser, AB Mirza Azizul Islam, informed a pre-budget consultation meeting on Wednesday. The disclosure of such a contingency fund was made following a call from the Bangladesh Economic Association for launching the fund, amounting to Tk 1,000 crore, with local resources. The Ministry of Finance is already working on how to float the fund, and its size in the initial year [2008-09] may be small, said the secretary to the ministry.
North Korea faces a looming food and humanitarian crisis after a poor harvest that has caused food prices to skyrocket and supplies to dwindle, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Wednesday. Agricultural experts in Seoul have said the shortfall, the result of flood damage last year, high commodity prices and political wrangling with major food donor South Korea, may be one of the worst since famine hit North Korea in the 1990s.
Norway Ambassador Ingadjorg Spotroing yesterday visited different development projects under RDRS (Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service) funded by Norway government in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur. He visited different development projects in rural areas of the upazila including Adibashi Mohila Proshikshan Kendra, Kishori Kendra, Shishu Shiksha Kendra, Sujalpur Mohila Dal etc.
Atypical skinny, bearded farmer was examining his paddy field, which was attacked by a disease unknown to him and his co-farmers. Anxiety and uncertainty shadowed his face as the leaves of his hybrid paddy plants were withering fast (Prothom Alo, April 4, 2008).