Spurs will be built on banks on Jamuna
The Water Development Board (WDB) has undertaken a plan to construct spurs on the banks of the river Jamuna at a cost of Taka 60 crore to fulfill the commitment of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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JRC contradicts press reports on Ganges water
Bangladesh is getting its due share of water as per agreement, official sources said. The Joint Rivers Commission, Bangladesh refuted reports published recently in a section of the press on sharing
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Earth losing shine?
A news report emanating from Los Angeles, the other day pointed out that Earth, as seen from space, might be growing dimmer. According to a study released at Southern California's Big Bear Solar
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Water shortage hits UAE
Some parts of the United Arab Emirates have been suffering water shortage due to the pollution of water source caused by the oil spill of an ill fated Iraqi oil
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Irrigation project remains abandoned in Panchagarh since '60
An important irrigation project, undertaken in 1960, has virtually remained abandoned leaving some 600,000 acres of land out of irrigation network in Bangladesh. Officials sources said Water
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City dwellers facing acute water crisis
Despite assurance from the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) that the water supply would remain almost normal during this summer, the residents in different parts of Dhaka have been experiencing
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Race characteristics are superficial
At their latest conference in Edinburgh, the Human Genome Organisation (HGO), an international collaborative effort at understanding the genetic makeup of the human race, claimed that the ancestory
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3000 tubewells out of order in Lalmonirhat
A total of 3000 shallow tubewells went out of order causing scarcity of pure drinking water in 5 upazilas of the Bangladesh district of Lalmonirhat.
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Earth may be growing dimmer as it warms
The Earth, as seen from space, may be growing dimmer as it warms, according to a study released by southern California's Big Bear Solar Observatory that could ultimately lead to a new way to test for
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Pak water crisis threatens political stability
After two years of drought and record low snowfalls in northern Pakistan, the once mighty Indus is a mere trickle in some places. Fishing has been decimated, farmland is parched, and rioters have