Polythene bags now available in city markets
Despite an official ban, polythene has staged a come-back in city's kitchen market besides availability of another environment-unfriendly nylon-made shopping bag popularly known as "net bag'.
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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Child labour increasing alarmingly in Jamalpur
The number of child labourers in increasing in Jamalpur district (Bangladesh). According to an unofficial sources about 20,000 child labourers below 12 years of age are engaged in this odd job for
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Three lakh TB cases detected every year
Bangladesh ranks fifth among top 22
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Arsenic victims and case against BGS in London
The case against the British Geological Survey (BGS) is, it was negligent in not testing for arsenic when it conducted a pilot project assessing ground water in central and north-eastern Bangladesh
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The Court, Environment and Government
Environmentalists recently went to court to charge authorites for failing to protect what is left of the city's green open spaces with the result that the High Court asked the government to stop its
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Diarrhoea breaks out in epidemic form at Ramgarh
Diarrhoea that broke out in an alarming proportion claimed lives of four people and attacked others at Kukichara village in Ramgarh upazila in last three
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32m doses of Japanese OVP to eradicate polio
In support of eradicating polio in Bangladesh, Japan gave 32 million doses of Oral Polio Vaccine
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Environmentalists and the court
There is a tendency to occupy all the empty places in the city with the result that no vacant plot, park or playground - or even a lake - is spared by lan grabbers. In the past the Bangladesh
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Nutrition and balanced meals
Bangladesh, despite being one of the world's most fertile riverine regions, harbours some of the most malnourished people on earth with persistent hunger stalking them throughout life. But to the
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Cattle disease in Shariatpur
Cattle disease, which is spreading fast, causes anxiety among the farmers of Sakhipur upazila of the district.The scarcity of preventive medicines has compounded the problems.According to villagers,