Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of In Re: Sinking Ba’deshi vessel dumps toxic fly ash in river near Ghoramara, shows video shared by panchayat member News item published in the Times of India Kolkata Section dt 17.02.2025 dated 29/04/2025. West Bengal Pollution …
The us will provide an additional amount of us $500,000 to support the implementation of the second phase of the plan to eliminate child labour in garment industries of Bangladesh, said Andrew James Samet, us deputy under secretary. The amount will be spent over the next two years to support …
Ever since the inception of Bangladesh in 1972 its politics have been featured by several types of seemingly endemic conflict, some of which have been associated with either periodic outbursts of violence or prolonged relatively low-key armed confrontations. The objective of the present study is that of placing the different …
In Bangladesh, arsenic in groundwater above 0.05 mg/1, the maximum permissible limit laid down by WHO, was found in 41 out of 64 districts. People suffering from arsenicosis have been identified in 20 districts out of 21 districts we have surveyed so far.
Bangladesh has launched a survey to find the effects of arsenic pollution in underground water in rural areas. The survey to be conducted in around 200 villages will be funded by the United Nations Development Programme. Called "Emergency Arsenic Mitigation Programme' the survey will cover 22 of the country's 64 …
The country is to go ahead with a much-delayed plan for a nuclear power plant, said officials of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission ( baec ) in Dhaka. The plan has been in the pipeline for more than 35 years. Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the Bangladeshi prime minister, gave her approval …
A tornado in Bangladesh killed at least 25 people and injured about 5,000 people on October 12. The tornado that lasted for about 30 minutes blew away tin roofs, trees and electricity poles near Tongi, an industrial town near the capital Dhaka. Most of the people died from being hit …
The World Bank has expressed concern over Bangladesh's increased spending on defence. The bank's recent draft report on public expenditure said that "there is creeping increase in defence expenditure, which already accounts for 17-18 per cent of current spending". "This is questionable in view of the tremendous poverty alleviation task …
At least 61 people were killed and thousands of establishments destroyed when a cyclonic storm hit southern coastal area in Bangladesh recently. According to relief officials, nearly 10 lakh residents have been evacuated from the cyclone hit area. Remote islands of Bhola, Laxmipur, Noakholi and Khulna were some of the …
Vanishing forest cover in Nepal may not be a cause of Bangladesh floods. A study conducted by the University of Berne, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the United Nations University suggests that floods in Ganga and Brahamputra rivers have more to do with the weather patterns in …
The basin area of the Ganges river in Bangladesh is extremely dependent on a regular water supply from upstream to meet requirements for agriculture, fisheries, navigation, salinity control, domestic and industrial sectors. In 1975 India commissioned a barrage on the Ganga river at Farakka to divert significant portion of the …
The pilferage of teak trees in the reserve forests under Maulvibazar range and shed trees in various tea gardens in Bangladesh has caused ecological imbalance in the region. Though the district administration has filed more than 300 cases against nearly 500 offenders, the efforts to stop the felling of teak-trees …
The supply of drinking water contaminated with arsenic could lead to a major health problem in Bangladesh. Babar Kabir, a World Bank water expert says that people are reverting to the use surface water thus being exposed to diarrhoea. The figures available indicate that every year, diarrhoea claims about thousand …
bangladesh's main nuclear reactor in Savar district has been shut down after one of the waste water cooling tanks leaked radioactive water at a rate of 0.3 gallons per minute. This is for the first time a leakage has taken place since it started operation in 1986. The tank has …
There were reports of epidemics among the victims of flood disaster in Bangladesh in mid-July as the death toll rose to 84. The health ministry's permanent epidemic monitoring centre in Dhaka said recently that at least eight of the 1,219 people hospitalised with diarrhoea had died. Reports said that the …
The arsenic affected areas of West Bengal are lying on a sediment of Younger Deltaic Deposition (YDD). The same sediment extends eastwards towards Bangladesh, covering the approximate area of 34 districts out of a total of 64 districts in Bangladesh. We suspect that the groundwater of these 34 districts of …
The Bangladesh government is soon going to set up a green court to deal with environmental problems, such as deteriorating air quality, in major cities such as its capital Dhaka. A study conducted in 1996 has revealed that during the dry season, Dhaka's air is more polluted than that of …
The government of Bangladesh is soon likely to approve its national policy on combating HIV/AIDS. A core group led by the director general of health services reviewed the draft national AIDS policy while a select committee formed by the national AIDS committee scrutinised the draft before placing it to the …
recently, a team of experts from India and Bangladesh met at the South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization (who) at New Delhi, from April 29 to May 1, to deliberate on arsenic contamination of groundwater in West Bengal (wb). The government of India, feel experts, have …
Until now pregnant women were under the misconception that if they had morning sickness, they were less prone to a miscarriage. Kathleen O'Conner of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, says that morning sickness is simply more frequent in younger women. She randomly selected 708 married women (age 18-47 years) in …
A national water policy for Bangladesh is on the anvil. This was announced by water resources minister Abdur Razzak in Dhaka recently. The country is all set to launch a planning exercise for a Ganges barrage in Greater Faridpur to provide irrigation to an area of 1.9 million hectares through …
