Arsenic contamination of groundwater has become alarming in the district with around 800 people affected with arsenic related diseases. The authorities have found 33,000 deep tube-wells with arsenic contamination and sealed those with red colour.
The number of Royal Bengal Tigers are gradually reducing in the Sundarbans due to the adverse impact of climate change, which has also changed the behaviors of majestic tigers making them more ferocious now than ever before.
The government at last appears serious about saving the rivers, at least those surrounding Dhaka City. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) on December 15 declared the four rivers and their foreshores, adjacent to the capital, ecologically critical with a view to saving the rivers from encroachment and pollution.
Experts in a roundtable here Tuesday said the mortality from Malaria was reduced significantly this year compared to last year's death toll in the country.
They said only 39 people died of malaria in 2009 while 154 people died in 2008, 228 in 2007, 307 in 2006, 502 in 2005 and 538 people died in 2004.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reaffirmed her government's resolve to restore the navigability in the country's silted-up rivers and declared that a massive drive to clean up the polluted Buriganga riverbed will start from next month (January).Terming the Buriganga lifeline of the capital city and its vast surroundings, she said on Wednesday under the government's massive river-dredging proje
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reaffirmed
her government's resolve to restore the navigability in the country's
silted-up rivers and declared that a massive drive to clean up the
polluted Buriganga riverbed will start from next month (January).
Bangladesh's vulnerability to global warming was eloquently discussed in French National Assembly here on Wednesday as France and Brazil are poised to make a joint push at the Copenhagen climate change conference for adopting a financial framework to address the adverse impacts of the climate change on the most risky countries in Asia and Africa.
The government is going to set up a number of small capacity power generation plants across the country to meet the nagging power shortage which is hampering the development and overall economic activities.
The Indo-Bangladesh relations have never been cordial. Regrettably, India's expansionist policy in the region and anti-Bangladesh propaganda continued unabated.
In Bangladesh, India is viewed as a bully, throwing its weight around and threatening the sovereignty of its smaller neighbors.
