The government should enact and enforce a law that would keep provisions against dust and particle pollution, demanded a group of green activists in Dhaka on Monday.

The UNICEF executive director, Anthony Lake, on Wednesday said that government needed to work more for the children at risk to reduce deprivation among them in low-performing rural areas and urban

Affected villagers of Barapukuria coal mine area at Phulbari in Dinajpur postponed on Thursday night their hunger strike till January 30.

A rapid rise in air pollution from fossil fuels and biomass burning has worsened winter smog and extended its duration in many parts of South Asia, scientists and officials have said.

Global food prices may drop slightly in the coming months but will remain volatile, the new head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jose Graziano da Silva, said Tuesday.

The Asian Development Bank on Monday showed its interest in providing funds for upgrading highways to be connected with the Asian Highway, communications ministry officials said.

Experts and right activists on Sunday urged the government to resist India’s plan for Tipaimukh dam on the river Barak by involving experts and the common people in the procession.

Left political leaders on Monday described India’s under construction Tipaimukh Dam as the ‘death trap’ for Bangladesh.

State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited has made new gas discoveries in the Fenchuganj gas field.

The Awami League-led government is yet to fulfil its electoral pledge of supplying pure drinking water to the entire population by 2011, failing even to provide safe drinking water to all the citiz