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.
The government proposed an allocation of Tk 12, 390 crore for the agriculture sector in the national budget for 2014-15 fiscal announced on Thursday. The amount of subsidy given to the key sector in
The government has allocated Taka 911 crore for the Ministry of Environment and Forest in the proposed budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2014-2015. The allocation is Taka 33 crore higher than the revised
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday proposed an allocation of Tk 11,146 crore for the health sector in the national budget for 2014-15 fiscal year. “We have established 12,577 community clinics,
Clearance Awaited From Centre For Pipeline To Be Laid By GAIL In Rs 7.6k Cr Project There is good news for Bengal on the eve of World Environment Day . The state's need for green fuel is likely to be
In 2014 Sri Lanka is ranked 69th in the EPI which is a Global Environment Assessment (GEA) index. It stands in sharp contrast to its regional neighbours India (155) Bangladesh (169) and Pakistan (148)
The government has made Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP) compulsory for construction of all new private and commercial buildings in the capital. The decision was made at a meeting of DAP review committee
Almost one-fifth of the Bangladeshi adult population is overweight, with an increase of 10 percentage point in the number of overweight or obese people over the past three decades, according to a global
The government is formulating an Elephant Action Plan to conserve the giant herbivore and put a check on the elephant-human conflict in the country. The Forest Department said they are working on it.
The Department of Environment (DoE) is set to take legal actions against brick kilns in 16 north-western districts, which had previously been identified as environmentally hazardous. Md Abdul Mazid,
The people of Kishoreganj municipality have been suffering for a long time due to serious environmental pollution as the municipal authorities cannot clean the town regularly in the absence of necessary