Sri Lanka’s state-run electricity board and India’s biggest power producer, NTPC, on Tuesday signed an agreement to set up a coal-fired power plant joint venture worth up to $700 million in the isl
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, will provide its help to famine-hit people to fight cholera in Somalia.
Rights actyivists on Monday urged the government to change the site of the proposed coal-based power plant from Rampal upazila in Bagerhat district to elsewhere to save the biodiversity of Sundarba
China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) has ordered a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips to halt all operations at the Penglai 19-3 oilfield in northern China’s Bohai Bay, saying the company has faile
The United Nations has warned of a possible major resurgence of bird flu and said a mutant strain of the H5N1 virus is spreading in Asia and elsewhere.
Iconic protest ship Rainbow Warrior II of the Greenpeace, the international environment watchdog, which has been donated to a charity here after its retirement, reached Chittagong on Monday to prov
Authorities in north-eastern Indian state of Manipur have forwarded a proposal to the environment ministry of the central government, seeking a ‘forest clearance’ for the controversial 1,500MW Tipa
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and visiting former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga have emphasised on concerted efforts among the South Asian nations to alleviate poverty and eradica
