The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Health Ministry and the Public Administration and Home Affairs Ministry will issue a joint circular soon making it compulsory for all state institutions to implement dengue control activities every Friday. A Cabinet paper will be presented shortly in connection with this, a Health Ministry spokesman said. According to the …
LAHORE: Measles continued to claim lives as another child died of the disease during treatment on Sunday, raising the death toll to 147. According to details, a child who had been shifted to the Mayo Hospital a couple of days ago passed away during treatment. So far measles has claimed …
Monday, June 10, 2013 - Islamabad—After Sindh and Punjab, Islamabad and its rural areas are under the threat of measles epidemic. According to hospitals sources, around 40 measles patients, almost all of them children, are daily brought to two hospitals, Federal Government Polyclinic Hospital and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences …
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday proposed allocation of Tk 9,495 crore for the health sector in the national budget for the 2013-14 of which Tk 3,602 crore was earmarked for the development of the sector which was Tk 3,825 crore in the outgoing fiscal year. In the outgoing fiscal …
According to official data, the growth in agro-production in FY 12 declined in comparison with that of FY 11. The agricultural production witnessed only a 0.94 per cent growth in FY 12 as against 5.65 per cent growth in the previous year. The farmers did not get fair prices of …
Jun 06, Colombo: The Police official in charge of Sri Lanka's Western Province, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Anura Senanayake says that the operations to arrest and punish the people who contribute to dengue mosquito breeding will begin on June 08 from Western Province. The operations will later …
The Anuradhapura District is being transformed in to a soya cultivation promotion zone. The government has allocated Rs 76,986 million to expand the soya cultivation during the Yala season in the district. According to sources, it has been targeted to distribute 651,700 kilograms of soya seeds in the district including …
Over 13,675 dengue patients have been identified at field health inspections conducted from January 1 to May 31, Sri Lanka Public Health Inspectors’ Union Vice Secretary C.S.Muthukuda said. About 3,506 dengue patients have been reported from the Colombo district. Out of them, 1,201 patients were from the Colombo Municipality area. …
The villagers of nearing Shitalakha river of Polash upazila are facing serious erosion threat for illegal lifting of sands from the river. It is alleged that a group of powerful men raising sand by using five to six dredger from Shitalakha river unlawfully and without any hesitation. According to the …
Bangladesh ranks third among the top 20 countries where people lack access to electricity, according to a report of a World Bank-led multi-agency team. The report titled 'Global Tracking Framework Report' published on Tuesday said until 2010, 66.6 million people, or 45 percent of the country's population, were out of …
The number of dengue cases in the Colombo city could increase in the coming weeks as 157 dengue cases have been reported in May alone, the Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam told the Sunday Observer. He said there had been a sudden increase in the number of …
Power Development Board (PDB) will set up two big coal fired power plant in different parts of Chittagong district with help of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) . JICA has already started a feasibility study in four areas of Chittagong to mount 1200 MW (600x2) of coal-based power plants, PDB …
After achieving self-sufficiency in food grains, farmers of Narsingdi district are now inspire to cultivate more aromatic rice Banglamoti due to economic prospect of the crop . Banglamoti rice is famous for special flavor and fineness. It is mostly use in preparing Palao, Birani, Payesh, Khichuri and Zarda. Cultivation of …
The country is going to celebrate installation of two million solar home systems (SHS) and also launch one million echo-friendly improved cooking stoves on Sunday. State-owned Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL), a non-banking financial institution under the Economic Relations Division (ERD) of the Finance Ministry, has installed the solar home …
Pushing the country's food security at risk, nearly 69,000 hectares of agricultural land have been shrinking annually due to rapid industrialisation, unplanned urbanisation and increase in rural settlements, according to a recent study. The study reveals that annual loss of agricultural land in Bangladesh was 13,412 hectares during 1976-2000 and …
Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - Lahore—The Environment Protection Department (EPD) of the City District Government Lahore examined 172 vehicles and imposed a fine of Rs 16,450 on owners of smoky vehicles on Monday. According to EPD sources, monitoring teams of the department examined buses, rickshaws, cars and motorcycles and found …
Anti-tobacco organisations have congratulated the government for passing the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill. The Parliament on Monday passed 'The Smoking and Tobacco Products Use (Control) (Amendment) Bill, 2013' increasing the amount of fine from Tk 50 to 100 to eliminate the use of the tobacco in public places. The first …
India and other South Asian countries are expected to get a ‘normal’ rainfall during forthcoming monsoon months (June-September), which is expected boost food production in the region, a global forum has predicted. The South Asian Climate Outlook Forum, which met late last week in Kathmandu, in its prediction has stated …
Pollutants brought in by monsoon winds from South Asia — and not industrial emissions from China — are behind the melting of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau, a leading Chinese scientist has claimed. Yao Tandong, director of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at the official Chinese Academy of Sciences …
State Minister for Science and Technology Yeafesh Osman on Wednesday said, the ground construction work of the country's first Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant will be started in September this year and it would be finished by 2015. Generation from the first unit of 1000 MW power nuclear power plant will …
