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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Fertilisers on sale mostly adulterated: report
Most of the non-urea fertilisers including the organic which are sold in the market are highly adulterated, revealed a report of the Soil Resource Development Institute. The SRDI analysis report of the 2007-08 fiscal also said that the degree of adulteration in the fertilisers is in some cases up to 77 per cent. The farmers, who cannot discern the standard of the fertilisers, are being cheated by the unscrupulous private fertiliser producers who sell the spurious products in the market, experts said.
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BRRI-Dhan 33 to be cultivated in Gaibandha to fight monga
Uddyog, a local NGO, in cooperation with IC-Leaf Project has taken up a programme side by side with the government to motivate the farmers to cultivate short duration BRRI-Dhan 33 in Gaibandha during the current T-aman season to eradicate monga (feminine-like situation). Under this programme, special measures have been taken to ensure timely supply of seed of BRRI Dhan 33, fertiliser and pesticides including other inputs to the farmers, sources said.
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ADB to provide $130m in food aid
The Asian Development Bank would provide a food assistance of $130 million as budget support for fiscal year 2008-09 to meet the government's food requirement under its social safety net programmes.
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330 infants die everyday in Bangladesh: UNICEF
Some 330 babies of less than one month of age die in the country everyday while eight million or 48 per cent of the children below five years are underweight. This is the state of child survival in Bangladesh as revealed in a global report launched by UNICEF, which still says Bangladesh is on track to attain the target-4 of the UN Millennium Development Goals for reducing under-five mortality rate to 50 per thousand by 2015 from current rate of 65.
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Modhumati, Nabaganga continue to dry up
The Modhumati and Nabaganga
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Army undertakes tree plantation campaign
The Bangladesh Army has undertaken a massive programme to make the National Tree Plantation Campaign-2008 a success. Quarter master general of the Bangladesh Army Lieutenant General M Jahangir Alam Choudhury inaugurated the tree plantation campaign of the army by planting a palm sapling beside the Army Central Mosque on Sunday. Senior army officers were present on the occasion. Later, he offered prayers seeking success of the campaign, said an ISPR release.
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Safari park fails to breed sweet-water crocodiles
The safari park in Cox's Bazar has failed in breeding of the sweet-water crocodiles gifted by the Indian authorities more than two years back. The Indian government gave 40 sweeter-water crocodiles as a gift to Bangladesh from its reptile bank in Chennai at the end of 2005, official sources said. Twenty-nine of them were released in the lake of the country's lone safari park near the Cox's Bazar tourist resort for their breeding while five were sent to Dhaka Zoo and the remaining released in Khan Zahan Ali mazar pond in Bagerhat.
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Climate change hampering food production: seminar
Climate change is causing sharp decline in food grin production across the world and Bangladesh is one of the worst-affected victims of this climate change, said speakers at a scientific seminar in Chittagong on Sunday. The Institute of Forestry and Environmental Science of Chittagong University organised the seminar on climate change. Professor Al Amin, director of the institute, presented keynote paper at the seminar when Dr Atique Rahman, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, was the chief guest.
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BHW suggests recognition of traditional health workforce
The Bangladesh Health Watch, a coalition of health-related organisations, on Thursday suggested recognition of the country's traditional health workforce and called for developing proper strategies to manage and improve their health care practices.
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Rice price marks fresh rise
The price of coarse rice has increased in the city's market in the past three days, and the Bangladesh Rifles' open market sales outlets have started selling coarse rice at Tk 30 per kg