Importers of battery-run electric rickshaws now mull a legal battle challenging a government ban recently slapped on these vehicles across the country.

The government in an inter-ministerial meeting on May 5 banned import and assembly of the vehicles and decided to send off-road those already plying, primarily on the ground that it consumes electricity mostly through illegal connections.

Failure to create the 30-billion dollars climate fund even after one year of international commitment in Copenhagen will badly affect developing countries like Bangladesh, the Maldives and Ethiopia, said environmentalists at a climate change workshop in Delhi yesterday.

Indian minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh, however, said one possible outcome of the upcoming Cancun

Wasa water has become a source of quick bucks for some dishonest government employees in the wake of unbearable water crisis in the capital, allege a number of city dwellers.

They allege a clique of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) officials are exacting more money than the official rates for water supply in lorries without money receipts.