The Governing Council of Bangladesh Climate Resilience Fund has approved a $25 million project, the first from the Fund, for strengthening capability to face adverse impacts of climate change.

The state minister for environment and forests, Hasan Mahmud, disclosed this after the first meeting of BCCRF Governing Council at a press briefing at his ministry Thursday afternoon.

The foreign minis

The US government will provide $51.3 million in food assistance to Bangladesh in fiscal year 2011.

The awards, which include transportation and freight costs, will be implemented under the Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programmes, said a US embassy press release Thursday.

In Bangladesh, Food for Progress will provide benefits valued

Water experts and green activists on Wednesday stressed creating a strong mass movement against the proposed Water Bill 2010 with a view to resisting

The government has initiated a move to protect agricultural land in the wake of

Residents of different areas of the Chittagong city are in the grip of acute water crisis.

People of Bakalia, Dewan Bazar, Bahadderhat, Badurtala, Chawkbazar, Pahartali, Halishahar, Anderkilla, Love Lane, Jamal Khan, Kapashgola, Muradpur and Enayetbazar of the city have been suffering from severe water crisis for about three weeks, local people said.

Minu Barua, a housewife of Tigerpass Rail

Experts on agriculture sector from different SAARC countries on Tuesday stressed the need for exchanging information on agricultural research and development to multiply success in the field.

They underscored the need at the inaugural session of a three-day training workshop on

The health ministry has proposed that the finance ministry should introduce health tax in the forthcoming budget to control tobacco use.

A ministry official said that the

The Phulbari unit of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports called off its siege after discussion with the local administration on Thursday afternoon.

The committee and local people have been demonstrating since Monday and blocked roads and railways on Wednesday to underscore their demand for compensation for the damage to the last Aman crop, and have ask

The government on Thursday decided to ban import of battery-run auto-rickshaws and slap restrictions on its local production against the backdrop of widespread plying of these vehicles not considered as technically sound.

An inter-ministry meeting with the communication minister, Syed Abul Hossain, at the secretariat also directed the authorities concerned to fix the life-time of the battery-ru

The Department of Environment fined a real estate company for cutting hills at the Khulshi area in the port city on Wednesday, a Chittagong DoE release said.

Impulse Properties Limited, a property-developer company of Chittagong, was fined Tk 7 lakh for the offence.

The release said that a Chittagong DoE team, led by its director (enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, launched a drive on Mo