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Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)

• Tk 109 cr Madunaghat water supply project okayed

  At last glittering of implementation of Madunaghat Water Supply Project (Bangladesh) under Chittagong WASA flickers after a passage of six years approval by the ECNEC. The ray of hope for execution

  • 06/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• Dhaka, Delhi can resolve water dispute thru' int'l help

  Chinese Vice- Minister for Environment Protection and Administration Plan Yue has said that China was optimistic about the resolution of the dispute over sharing of common rivers between Bangladesh

  • 06/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• The Congress of Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists

  The 16th congress of Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists

  • 06/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Environment

• Tk 2.4 cr French aid

  As part of its contribution to Bangladesh's post-flood reconstruction, the French government lent to about Taka 2.4 crore to UNICEF Bangladesh and a local NGO called

  • 06/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Environment

• CNG act to be passed to ensure standards'

  Bangladesh Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources AKM Mosharraf Hossain said the government would take an initiative to pass

  • 05/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Vehicular Pollution

• Our shrinking forest lands

  The Modhuur forest (Bangladesh) once stretched all the way to Dhaka but even what is left of it is disappearing fast. According to the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Mymensingh Forest Region.

  • 05/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Forests

• India's river-link project to harm ties with Bangladesh

  Speakers on the second day of a national convention in Dhaka said that the controversial river interlinking project would bring no benefits to the Indians relations with Bangladesh and other

  • 04/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• FAO to help Himalayan co-riparian countries in water sharing : Diouf

  The number of hungry people could not be halved within the next 10 years, as it was projected before, because of low resource mobilisation and decline in agricultural investment worldwide. Food and

  • 03/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• Hepatitis C will be major health issue on Bangladesh

  Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, now emerging as a world-wide health problem with some 170 million people infected, will be a major health problem for Bangladesh, a leading authority of the country

  • 03/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• 70,000 patients die of TB every year

  An estimate says that some 70 thousand patients die of TB and three lakh being infected afresh every year in Bangladesh due to lack of awareness of the disease, which is curable by proper treatment,

  • 03/12/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health