An environmental group is asking the Nepal government to consider installing portable toilets on Mount Everest for climbers caught short at the roof of the world.
The government will procure more equipment costing Tk 115 crore this year for post-disaster rescue and evacuation drives with a view to minimising its loss.
The UN’s talks on climate change are daft and crippled by finger-pointing and the need for consensus, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, was quoted on Thursday by Le Monde as saying.
Thailand on Wednesday declared a third of its provinces to be disaster zones, as auto giant Toyota called a halt to work after production was affected by the country’s worst flooding in decades.
Professionals and activists at a global conference on sanitation and hygiene on Wednesday stressed the need for coordinated efforts from the government and non-government organizations to remove in
A six-day global conference on sanitation and hygiene which began here on Monday called for all out efforts to ensure that everyone across the world has access to toilets and safe water to prevent
The World Health Organisation’s chief on Monday urged governments to unite against ‘big tobacco’, as she accused the industry of dirty tricks, bullying and immorality in its quest to keep people sm
Massive floods have left 500 people dead across Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, officials said Monday, as authorities stepped up efforts to reach victims of the unusually heavy monsoon rains.
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has drafted new building construction rules that will require certain buildings in Dhaka to have systems to harvest rain water, treat waste and use solar power.
