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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Price hike increases malnutrition risk in South Asia: UNICEF
Children in South Asia are bearing the brunt of spiralling food prices as malnutrition is on the rise with millions at risk, the UN children's fund said. The price of rice and wheat has doubled under the worldwide pinch. Poor households are consuming one less meal or substituting expensive ingredients, David Toole, regional director of UNICEF South Asia, told a press briefing on Tuesday.
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Reuse of DDT to check kalaazar stressed
The government should reintroduce banned DDT insecticide as a preventive tool to halt the spread of
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Paddy farmers cry for rain in Patuakhali, Barguna
PADDY farmers in Patuakhali and Barguna are now prying for rain as absence of rainfall, lack of normal flash flood and drying up of the six major rivers at many points are affecting the irrigation. The farmers said they were now gripped with serious anxiety. The farmers said the irri and aus plants were withering and turning pale under the blazing sun on vast tracts of land in all the 12 upazilas of the two districts. The water-starved land have developed cracks at many places.
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73pc street children face chronic malnutrition: study
About 73 per cent of the street children in the Dhaka city suffer from chronic malnutrition while mortality and morbidity status among the street dwellers has reached an alarming level due to lack of basic healthcare services. This was revealed at a seminar organised in Dhaka on Wednesday by ICDDR,B to release the findings of a study on
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Fall in groundwater level, power outages blamed
Frequent power outages and sharp fall in the groundwater level have aggravated water crisis in the Khulna city. The Khulna City Corporation can presently supply only 1.5 crore to 1.75 crore gallons of water per day against the demand for 3 crore gallons. Sources in the corporation said they had 72 wells, 2,825 deep tube wells and 5,942 shallow tube wells and 15,000 water connections in the city. Besides, some households in the city use shallow and deep tube-wells of their own, they added.
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Traffic congestion turns acute in Dhaka
Traffic congestion, a common scene on roads in the Dhaka city, causes immense sufferings to the city dwellers by eating up time of their daily life. One cannot say for certain that he/she will reach their destinations without facing traffic congestion on working days and even on the weekends. Haphazard parking of vehicles and picking up passengers here and there are mainly blamed for traffic congestions in the capital, some city people said.
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50 species of birds under threat of extinction
There is yet some shocking news for the environmentalists and nature lovers that almost 50 species of country birds are under threat of extinction. According to available statistics around 10 species of birds have been extinct from Bangladesh since its inception in 1971. Among over 600 species of birds including 400 indigenous and 200 migratory birds, about 50 rare species are under extreme threat of disappearance. Most critically threatened birds include white-backed vulture,
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All attempts to save Buriganga go futile
The Buriganga along with other rivers in Dhaka is dying out due to continued encroachments, and acute pollution caused by dumping of industrial waste. As per the suggestions and the demands made by environmentalists and green activists, the past governments had taken initiatives from time to time in a bid to save the rivers from encroachers and polluters but in vain. In 2003, the then government formed a task force to save the Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Sitalakhya and took some decisions, including eviction of the encroachers.
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Three lakh people contract TB in country every year
Health experts have said around 5.70 lakh people are now suffering from tuberculosis in the country and more than three lakh people contract the disease every year. The death figure has shot up to 66,000 per annum in the country from tuberculosis-related diseases, they said while addressing the inaugural ceremony of Regional Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at Chest Diseases Hospital here on Saturday.