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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Buriganga restoration projects facing uncertainties
Non allocation of funds and legal complexities have either stalled or slowed down two projects for saving the Buriganga River from land grabbers or restoring stretches of it through dredging, officials
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Under-5 mortality in Bangladesh slums among the highest
The rate of under-five mortality of 95 per cent in the slums of Bangladesh is among the highest in the world, a UNICEF report released in Dhaka on Wednesday said. The high rate of mortality of slum children
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Report on BARC Bill, 2012 placed in JS
The report of the parliamentary standing committee of the ministry of agriculture on Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council Bill, 2012 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad Monday. Committee chairman Shawkot
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Dhaka, London sign MoU on collaboration in energy sector development
Bangladesh and United Kingdom on Sunday signed a five-year memorandum of understanding on collaboration in research and development in energy sector. According to the MoU signed at Biddyut Bhavan in
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Metro rail to eat up 66 acres of Uttara III phase
About 66 acres land of the Uttara third phase housing project will be acquired for the proposed elevated metro rail project, communications secretary MAN Siddique said on Monday. The big chunk of land
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Nano set to roll into Bangladesh in March: report
The Nano, a minicar of Indian Tata Motors, will hit the Bangladesh market early next month, the local distributor said on Monday. ‘We plan to import up to 2,000 cars initially but the figure will be
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Greens ask India, China to give up big dam construction
Human lives and the environment in the region are severely threatened by indiscriminate construction of big dams by India and China, green activists said on Sunday. They urged the two countries to shun
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City corpns have no plan to plant trees this fiscal
None of the two city corporations in Dhaka is going to plant any trees in the capital in 2011-2012 fiscal year for lack of planning and mismanagement, say corporation officials. The erstwhile Dhaka
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Aftershocks expose remains in N Zealand graves: report
Constant aftershocks in Christchurch have pushed human remains up from burial plots in one of the quake-ravaged New Zealand city’s graveyards, a report said Sunday. In a grim reminder that the ground
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Harsh winter kills 40 children in Afghanistan
A harsh winter has killed almost 40 children in Afghanistan in the past month, most of them in refugee camps in Kabul with aid groups warning Sunday of more deaths as temperatures keep falling. Twenty-four