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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Short duration rice cultivation initiated in Kurigram
The farmers in Kurigram have started the cultivation of short duration rice during the rainy season. Farmers and farm labourers are now busy with preparing land and planting seedlings in their field ignoring heavy showers of rain. The target of cultivation of short duration rice in five districts of Greater Rangpur district has been fixed on 73,000 hectares of land. Farmers are choosin
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Dhaka to discuss water sharing issue of 54 rivers with Delhi: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said her government will discuss the long-standing water sharing issue of the country
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Dhaka for legally binding treaty by 2010 to cut carbon emissions
Bangladesh will continue its efforts to attain an international legally binding treaty by 2010 to cut carbon emissions which will help limit global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, state minister for environment and forest Hasan Mahmud said on Tuesday.
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9 Gazipur factories fined for no ETP
A Department of Environment drive saw nine Gazipur factories fined by a mobile court on Monday, for failure to use effluent treatment plants and allowing pollutants to enter the surrounding waters.<br />  Such drives will be continued against those polluting the environment, a department of environment statement said.
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Oral cholera vaccine programme to be launched by January
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, in collaboration with the government, is going to launch a pilot project of giving oral cholera vaccine to the people of a specific area of the capital by early January next year.
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200 sued for felling trees
The forest department Monday night filed a case accusing 200 people of felling trees in the coastal green belt of Ghoramara of Sonaichhari under Sitakunnda upazila in Chittagong.
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Climate change hits poor countries hardest: WB
The developing world will suffer about 80 per cent of the damage from climate change despite accounting for only around a third of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the World Bank said on Sunday.
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TB kills 70,000 every year in country
Medical experts on Tuesday stressed the need for patients to go through the full course of six-month treatment to stop tuberculosis from becoming a multiple-drug-resistant disease as far as they are concerned. The disease will continue to spread unless this is done by every patient.
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Dhaka seeks $5b in climate compensation
Bangladesh has sought $5 billion from the developed countries in compensation as an affected country due to climate change caused by global warming.
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Dengue spreads in capital
Around 27 patients afflicted with dengue have been admitted to three hospitals in the capital in a few days as the fever is spreading, said physicians. Fourteen dengue patients were being treated in Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital till Thursday evening, said sources. AR Khan, director of the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, said they had admitted one to two patients daily in a few days.