The ever-worsening traffic congestion along the main throughfares of Dhaka continue to make lives of the commuters miserable. Introduction of smaller-sized auto-vehicles like 'Riders', 'Duranto' and
The Power Development Board (PDB) has worked out a comprehensive plan for expansion of Bangladesh's lone hydroelectric power plant at Kaptai at a cost of Taka 600
The Bangladesh Ministry of Forest and Environment failed to implement its programme of checking black smoke emitting from the vehicles due to non-cooperation from other ministries related to
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Laboratory has joined forces with seven companies to launch a new industrial consortium that will support research on carbon sequestration, a
In an attempt to protect bio-diversity, a gene bank will be set up in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest of the world. This will be first mangrove forest gene bank in the
A 12-month pilot action programme will be taken in selected municipalities of Bangladesh to formulate an outline for monitoring quality of water and sanitary system to create awareness among the
Bangladesh finance minister SAMS Kibria in his Budget speech proposed to withdraw all taxes and duties including VAT from double decker buses using only CNG. He also proposed to withdraw all other
In the National Budget of 2000-2001 Bangladesh's Fiscal Finance Minister has proposed to ban the import of three wheelers with two stroke engine. In his Budget Speech, Kibria said the proposal is
A new dam controversy with India is in the making, one that resembles in many ways the one about the Farakka dam that was commissioned by India in 1974 with help from the World Bank. When in April
India was learnt to have completed all its arrangements to construct a high dam in the Barak river at the origin of rivers Kushiara and Surma, posing a threat to ecological balance as well as
