The government plans to introduce a genetically modified variety of cotton to scale up production of the key textiles raw material and meet rising demand, the agriculture minister said yesterday.

Stink from water of a canal badly polluted by toxic waste of a recently closed factory, which was producing starch powder from potato at Tilokpur in Akkelpur upazila of Bogra, still remains a nuisa

A brisk rain washed the leaf litters from the hillsides within the national park of Lawachhara. Cracking sounds of the forest garbage rolling down the hills could be heard from quite far.

The national taskforce on river protection has decided to conduct mobile courts against river encroachers and polluters.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the taskforce yesterday.

Erosion by the River Jamuna has taken an alarming turn in the last few days, devouring at least 200 homesteads, four schools and a vast tract of cropland in Sadar and Chowhali upazilas of Sirajganj

A mobile court yesterday fined owners of four brick fields in Poba upazila under the district and closed one of those for causing huge losses to agricultural products by emitting black smoke.

A seven-member team of Bangladeshi officials yesterday started a bathymetric survey on a 2km portion of the Kushiyara, which is flowing in India's Assam state before entering Bangladesh again in Sy

Jinnat Knitwears Ltd, a unit of DBL Group, has won the CPI2-Top Factory Award for excellence in reducing energy use and environmental impact.

The garbage management service of the two city corporations has reached such a pitiable state that many of the city streets are found with heaps of waste in the open, emitting foul odour and causin

Four people were killed as storms lashed Jamalpur and Madaripur districts yesterday.