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.
Five development projects of Tk 3,445.17 crore got nod from the government’s top economic policy making body on Tuesday, including a Tk 2,600 crore project seeking to improve urban governance and infrastructures.
The government will implement two separate projects for riverbank protection and strengthening climate resilience and disaster preparedness in eight coastal towns with credit support from the Asian Development
The project will help install an additional 480,000 solar home systems that has emerged as a viable electrification option for areas without grid access to electricity World Bank has given $78.4m additional
'The public administration ministry will prepare a comprehensive draft and place it before the cabinet again' The cabinet yesterday refused to separately approve three proposed acts for public servants,
The government is going to set up a 60MW solar power project at Raozan in Chittagong in the private sector. Once implemented, officials said, state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) will purchase
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has decided to lend Euro 100 million to the government of Bangladesh to finance a new sustainable surface water supply system in Dhaka. The financing contract was
Nearly three lakh people are infected with tuberculosis and around 66,000 of them die every year in the country, speakers at an orientation said. They said the community people and social workers have
The cabinet has finalised the “Formalin Control Act, 2014” without ascertaining as to the existence of what level of formalin in food will be treated as an offence. However, the highest punishment
Rotary International has spent so far more than one billion dollar all over the world to eradicate polio. Safina Rahman, first women governor of Rotary International, Bangladesh, made the disclosure
The government will streamline entry of visitors and local people into the Saundarbans for protecting its bio-diversity, especially the endangered Royal Bengal Tigers. Environment and forest ministry