Deal with the Chinese threat or face a future without water
While we worry over the effect of India's river linking project on Bangladesh, no mention is ever made about an equally disastrous project
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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Bangladesh facing threat of HIV/AIDS diseases
Speakers at an advocacy meeting in Rangpur (Bangaldesh), have expressed their severe concern over the prevailling Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), Human Immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired
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Malaria claims 519 lives in 3 yrs in Khagrachhari
Deadly diseases malaria claimed 519 lives in eight upazilas of Khagrachhari district (Bangladesh) in last three and half years. Of them, 154, people died in 2001, 181 in 2002, 129 in 2003 and 55
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Pollution damages fish habitat in Bay
The probe body that had been looking into the incident of bunker spillage from a Marine Tanker of state owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) Mt Banglar Sourav could not submit its report even
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Bird population in country reduced alarmingly
Environment and Forest Minister Shajahan Siraj on Friday said the bird population in the country reduced alarmingly due to excessive use of pesticides in the agricultural fields, destruction of bird
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Plantations where forests once grew
According to official statistics from the Tangail Forest Office, the state of the Modhupur forest is so alarming it should set off alarm bells. Of the 46,000 acres in the Tangail part of the forest,
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Pests attack aman plants on 600 hectares in M'bazar
The aman paddy plants on hundreds of hectares of land in different ares of Moulvibazar district have been attacked by
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The South-Asian Regional Conference on santitation (SACOSAN)
A three-day regional conference onsantitation hosted by UNICEF, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaboration Council (WSSCC), Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), South Asia of the World Bank, WHO,
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11 poultry vaccines produced in country in last 2 yrs
In last two years 11 vaccines in Bangladesh which resulted in increasing production in poultry sector, says
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Researchers find arsenic in N'ganj drinking water
A study conducted by a team of researchers of Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University and local scientists at Araihazar Upazila in Narayangank district found that level of arsenic in