Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman on Tuesday asked scheduled banks and non-bank financial institutions not to finance any project which will put an adverse impact on environment.

The government is going to impose eco tax in the form of surcharge from the coming fiscal year of 2014-15 on industries responsible for polluting environment in a bid to control pollution and encou

Residents of Jagannath Saha Road and green campaigners have demanded that Pushpa Saha Pond at Amligola of Lalbagh in the capital should reclaimed from illegal occupation.

The government is planning to introduce eco tax from the next fiscal year in an attempt to curb pollution by the industrialists, finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said.

Three members of a family, including a minor girl, were killed in a landslide at Borolekha in Moulvibazar Friday night.

Farmers in Gazipur who were given the controversial Bt brinjal saplings have said they would no more cultivate the genetically engineered crop as the cultivation has ruined them.

The High Court on Monday directed the government to protect all canals, parks and playgrounds across the country from powerful land grabbers.

The government has cancelled a project to replace incandescent bulbs by energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps as the World Bank, the lending agency of the project, has withdrawn its support sa

The World Bank has approved a $12 billion loan for cash-strapped Pakistan that will be disbursed over five years, the country’s finance ministry and the global lender said on Friday, reports Reuter

The International Farakka Committee in New York has protested at India’s withdrawal of water from the cross-border rivers in the upstream and demanded that Bangladesh government should take the iss