Task force to protect environment
The deputy commissioner (DC) of Dhaka district has decided to form a task force of concerned government authorities to protect against environmental pollution, especially water pollution, air pollution
New Age (Bangladesh)
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Energy div sends coal policy draft for advisers' approval by tomorrow
The Energy Division will send the draft coal policy to the Cabinet Division by tomorrow for its placement before the council of advisers for approval, after a delay by about two years and a half over various controversies, officials said.
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Cloak and dagger over coal policy (editorial)
It appears that the draft coal policy began with a text heavily biased towards private investment and facilitating large margins of profit for the mining companies. Ideally, there should not be a problem with the private investor making large margins but not at the cost of national interests or doing away with all kinds of binding safeguards to protect the environment and livelihoods of thousands of people who would be displaced
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Pacific islands face poverty as food, energy prices rise
Soaring food and energy prices are likely to push five per cent of the population of the small island economies in the Pacific into poverty, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday. Oil producers East Timor and Papua New Guinea, which is also boosted by high mineral prices, are
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Joint venture eyes 1000MW power through wind turbines
A Bangladesh-Japan joint venture has offered to generate 1,000MW power by installing environment-friendly windmills in Bangladesh.
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Resource exploitation, pollution on in ECAs
Wildlife, marine life, birds and other species in the areas declared ecologically critical remain threatened because of indiscriminate exploitation and pollution of natural resources. People are still unaware of restriction on movement and other prohibitions in the eight critical areas such as Cox's Bazar-Teknaf beach, Sonadia Island, St Martins Island, Hakaluki Haor, Tanguar Haor, Marjaat Baor, Gulshan-Baridhara Lake and a large portion of Sundarban.
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Most of Vietnam factories breach pollution rules
Eight out of ten factories and industrial parks in Vietnam breach environmental regulations, state media reported Thursday, citing a government study in the rapidly-industrialising country. The survey of more than 400 enterprises found many
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Pollution clouds threaten glaciers, health: UN
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported Thursday.
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Adulterated foods on sale in city amid lax monitoring
Adulterated food items continue selling in the Dhaka city in the absence of proper monitoring by the agencies concerned, posing serious threat to public health. A large number of food shops, sweetmeat houses, restaurants and producers of such foods are selling adulterated items under the very nose of lawmen, said Dhaka City Corporation officials concerned.
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Toxic Paracetamol kills children
A section of pharmaceutical companies have been using toxic industrial chemicals in medicines, especially in Paracetamol syrup, causing deaths to a number of children and putting life of many others at risk, according to physicians and experts.
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Toxic chemical found in vitamin syrup too Probe body formed; paediatricians ask people not to panic
Traces of a toxic industrial chemical were detected also in a vitamin syrup brand as in case of a Paracetamol syrup, paediatricians said after investigating a sudden surge of child deaths because of kidney failure.