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Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)

• Afforestation in CHT

  The Bangladesh government has decided to extend the social Afforestation Programme in the Chittagong Hill Tracts with the financial support of the Asian Development Bank(ADB). ADB woudl continue its

  • 03/10/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Forests

• Needed a set of standards for bottled water and soft drinks

  According to the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSIT), at least five brands of bottled water available on the market contain impurities. As soft drinks contain water and may also

  • 28/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)

• The Great Himalayan meltdown

  As predicted by environmentalists floods are increasing both in frequency and devastation because of global warming. Snows and glaciers at the source of the rivers flowing into Bangladesh are melting

  • 28/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Environment

• Filthy floodwater makes city life miserable

  Filthy and sewage materials contaminated with stagnant floodwater in the Dhaka has made the life of city-dwellers miserable. In such situation, physicians apprehend outbreak of diarrhoea in epidemic

  • 28/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Environment

• Over 200 die of rabies in Bangladesh yearly

  More than two thousand people die of rabies in Bangladesh every year the second-highest toll in the world from animal bites, though the fatalities are preventable through right remedies. Once

  • 28/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• Thousands cry for pure drinking water

  Flood situation further deteriorated in Dhaka (Bangladesh) as some parts of Gulshan, Mohakahli and Fakirpool went under flood water contaminated with sewage spilling out from sewage lines. Low-lying

  • 26/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Environment

• Dengu fever spreading fast in Khulna

  Number of Dengue patients is rising alarmingly in Khulna (Bangladesh). Dengue patients detected in Khulna is seven. Among the infected dengue victims, five patients are undergoing treatment in city's

  • 25/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• Forests and their biodiversity

  Yet another call has been made by an eminent personality for conserving our forest wealth and the vast number of animal and plant species that lurk within. This time it is the turn of the chairman of

  • 24/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)

• Protection of kids from hazards urged

  Speakers at a roundtable on

  • 20/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• 787 deep tubewells

  Public Health Engineering Department of Barisal Circle sank 787 deep tubewells in nine southern districts in the last fiscal year to provide arsenic-free drinking water for the

  • 19/07/2004

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation