52 CNG filling stations to be set up by 2010
A private joint venture company has undertaken a Taka 300 million project to set up 52 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) filling stations all over Bangladesh by the year 2010.
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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Rubber dam being constructed in Chakoria
A 218.8 metre rubber dam, aiming to bring some 27,000 hectares of land under irrigation network is being constructed along the Matamuhuri River in Chakoria upazila of Bangladesh at a cost of Tk 25
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Construction of rubber dams in CHT more useful
Government and non-government organizations have prepared several uplift schemes following specialists' suggestion for setting up water reservoirs by constructing dams for ensuring water supply,
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Water shortages hit Pak economy hard
Water shortages in Pakistan are having a severe effect on the cash strapped country's economy, with rising fuel oil imports for thermal power generation and shrinking crop yields costing about $1.1
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Registration of vehicles
The problem of pollution in the city of Dhaka and elsewhere in Bangladesh is quite pronounced. Emissions from defective vehicles have since added to polluted air. As reports of the press have it, the
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Dhaka could learn from Delhi
Delhi's Supreme Court's ruling, that all kinds of motor vehicles plying he streets must do so on Compressed Natural Gas instead of the highly polluting petroleum, may have created a great deal of
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Irrigation hampered due to low flow of Ganges water
The Ganges water sharing treaty between Bangladesh and India has fallen flat as discharge of water down the Farakka Barrage during the current dry season is far lower than stipulated seriously
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Japan to send global warming mission to US
Japan said that it will send a mission to the United States to try to persuade the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide to reverse its decision to reject an international treaty on global
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Regular dredging of Gorai will help maintain constant flow
The Gorai River Authority needs atleast 200 million US dollars for the permanent solution of water crisis which has been persisting for over 20 years, a reliable source close to the Bangladesh Water
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A new way of rural development
"Et Bidi/Et Chamber (Every home/ Every Firm)" is now a popular slogan among four lake people of Tarapur, a remote Upazila of Tarapur District of Bangladesh. Since launching of the "Et Bidi/Et