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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Seminar on AIDS held in city
A daylong seminar on HIV/AIDS and STIs (sexually transmitted infections) was held at the Rajarbagh Police Lines Auditorium in the city on Tuesday. World Vision, Bangladesh and Retired Police Officers' Welfare Association, Bangladesh organised the seminar to raise awareness among the police officials and to carry out advocacy campaign programme on these deadly deceases. Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Naim Ahmed inaugurated the programme as chief guest.
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Human chain demands repair of road
Students of Noakhali Govt College formed a human chain in front of court building in the district town on Sunday demanding repair of the college road. Several hundred students of the college participated in the programme from 10:00am to 1:00pm to press for their demand. The students also submitted memorandums to the Noakhali deputy commissioner, police superintendent, LGED executive engineer, RHD executive engineer, municipality chairman, sadar upazila nirbahi officer and college principal seeking immediate measures to repair the road.
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Appraisal meeting on multi-donor fund on climate change today
The government sits today for a meeting with donors and lenders to appraise the means for creating an already proposed multi-donor trust fund to help Bangladesh overcome or mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, according to officials concerned. They say the meeting is also likely to make preparations for the planned high-profile conference on the effects of climate change in London in September to influence international opinion in favour of Bangladesh, which is considered one of the most vulnerable countries.
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Integrated steps stressed to cut losses in natural disaster
The participants in a workshop on Monday stressed the need for taking integrated steps for effective disaster management and lessening the losses caused by natural calamities. Rupantar, a Khulna-based organisation, in cooperation with Oxfam arranged the workshop titled
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SAARC food bank to be activated after summit
The South Asian nations are set to activate the SAARC food bank immediately after the summit meeting to help the member-countries tackle exigent situations after the foreign secretaries reached a consensus on the first day of their two-day meeting here on Tuesday. They agreed to help each other for increasing agricultural production by providing each other technological support as well as making the distribution mechanisms of food-grains more effective.
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Fresh areas go under water as Padma, Jamuna keep swelling
Major rivers, including the Padma and the Jamuna, continued to swell Monday, disrupting ferry services and overflowing banks in some districts, where fresh areas went under water. At least one death was reported as surging water inundated more villages and washed away parts of river banks, according to reports reaching from Manikganj and Faridpur districts. Stranded vehicles stood in long queues for hours on the both sides of the Padma river as pontoons at Paturia-Daulatdia ferry ghats sank.
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Food, energy, trade on Dhaka's agenda
Bangladesh is now fine-tuning its position papers on crucial regional issues like food, energy, trade and climate change which will figure high in the 15th SAARC Summit, beginning in Colombo on August 2.
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Duck farming draws poor and rich alike
Duck farming is gaining popularity in Mymensingh, with both the poor and rich people getting involved in the business. The poor and middle-class families are doing the business by taking loan from different non-governmental organisations and the government's cooperative department. The rich are involved in the business as lenders to small farms. They finance small farmers on profit to be divided as per their share in the farms, duck farmers said.
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Gene scientists lift veil on devastating plant parasite
An international team of 27 laboratories said on Sunday they had laid bare the genetic code of a tiny parasite responsible for billions of dollars in crop losses each year. The worm, known as the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita), infests plant roots leaving them gnarled. More than 3,000 crop types are affected, especially coffee, cotton, tomatoes, melons and cucumbers. Sequencing the worm's genome could open the way to smarter, less toxic pesticides and other greener methods to curb the little menace, the researchers.
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Moderate earthquake hits most areas
An elderly man, panicked at the moderate earthquake that shook most areas of the country early Sunday, died of a cardiac arrest. Many across the country were injured. The earthquake measured 5.6 on the Richter scale, according to the Met Office in Dhaka. The quake measured 5.2 on the Richter scale, according to the Dhaka University geology department, equipped with an earth observatory. Indian and US geological surveys measured earthquake at 4.9 on the scale.