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.
Bangladesh risks losing boro crops in about 40,000 square kilometer area if India and China divert waters from trans-boundary rivers, including the Brahmaputra, a seminar was told. “India plans to implement
The national taskforce on river protection has decided to conduct mobile courts against river encroachers and polluters. The decision was taken at a meeting of the taskforce yesterday. “Bangladesh Inland
A brisk rain washed the leaf litters from the hillsides within the national park of Lawachhara. Cracking sounds of the forest garbage rolling down the hills could be heard from quite far. Smell of newly
DHAKA: Bangladesh imposed a radical new "green tax" on Thursday to force polluting factories to pay extra levies as it looks to clean up the country's increasingly dirty rivers and air. The environmental
As of the current fiscal year, the climate trust fund, formed by the government’s own resources in 2009, has received Tk 2555 crore in the last five fiscal years Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund
A mobile court yesterday fined owners of four brick fields in Poba upazila under the district and closed one of those for causing huge losses to agricultural products by emitting black smoke. The brick
Erosion by the River Jamuna has taken an alarming turn in the last few days, devouring at least 200 homesteads, four schools and a vast tract of cropland in Sadar and Chowhali upazilas of Sirajganj district.
Proposing to allocate Tk 11,540.40 crore for power, energy and mineral resources ministry, finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday told the House that electricity will reach every household within the
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday proposed to raise the expenditure limit of companies’ corporate social responsibly to Tk 12 crore from the existing Tk 8 crore. He, however, unchanged the existing
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday proposed to introduce ‘environment protection surcharge’ or ‘green tax’ on ad-valorem basis on all kinds of products manufactured in the country by the industries