The government aims at alleviating poverty further in five districts of Rangpur division by creating employment opportunities under the new phase of a poverty alleviation scheme.

Bangladesh has received the certificate of the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a Polio-free country.

Green activists at a discussion on Wednesday urged the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to put an end to growing noise pollution in the capital.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday said she would visit all the ministries one after another and inspect their activities in a bid to ensure accountability.

Twenty-one environmental and rights organisations on Monday sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s direct interference to save the rivers around the capital from grabbers and pollution.

ADB will provide $250 million for a project of Dhaka WASA to develop an environmentally sustainable water supply system in the city.

The Consortium of NOU Kollan Foundation Trading Limited (NKFTCL), an enterprise of Bangladesh Navy, is interested to set up a coal-fired power project at Moheshkhali to generate 1320MW electricity

India is constructing three hydropower projects having a combined capacity to generate 1065 megawatts by withdrawing waters of upstream joint rivers with Bangladesh, officials said.

Bangladesh will receive a grant of $15,16,275 from two international agencies for environmentally safe recycling of ships.

The government will revise the Renewable Energy Development Policy by incorporating the provision of adopting new technology and introducing incentives to the new-generation electricity producers,