The rate of under-five mortality of 95 per cent in the slums of Bangladesh is among the highest in the world, a UNICEF report released in Dhaka on Wednesday said.
The report of the parliamentary standing committee of the ministry of agriculture on Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council Bill, 2012 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad Monday.
About 66 acres land of the Uttara third phase housing project will be acquired for the proposed elevated metro rail project, communications secretary MAN Siddique said on Monday.
A harsh winter has killed almost 40 children in Afghanistan in the past month, most of them in refugee camps in Kabul with aid groups warning Sunday of more deaths as temperatures keep falling.
Constant aftershocks in Christchurch have pushed human remains up from burial plots in one of the quake-ravaged New Zealand city’s graveyards, a report said Sunday.
None of the two city corporations in Dhaka is going to plant any trees in the capital in 2011-2012 fiscal year for lack of planning and mismanagement, say corporation officials.
Human lives and the environment in the region are severely threatened by indiscriminate construction of big dams by India and China, green activists said on Sunday.
