Speakers at a roundtable on Tuesday underscored the need for formulation of a policy with provisions to cut emissions from vehicles and brick fields in Dhaka city to ensure pollution-free air for the citizens.
They said air pollution in the city was the major reason for mortality and diseases as it happened due to inaccessibility to clean water and sanitation.
With a vision to create awareness of noise and air pollution and campaign against traffic snarls in the Dhaka city, a cycle race will be held in the capital city on May Day.
The government will finally hold a meeting today to decide the next course of action to combat diarrhoea which has killed at least 40 persons in the last two months, said sources in the health ministry.
The Minister Health and Family Welfare, AFM Ruhal Haque, on Wednesday urged everyone not to be panicked by Swine flu.
He advised all to be aware of this new sub-type of H1N1 virus that has claimed more than 150 lives across the world in the last few days. And he asked the media
The chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, Joytirindra Bodhipriya Larma alias Santu Larma Thursday urged all concerned to ensure safe water and sanitation to the CHT region.
He was addressing a district level dialogue on
The government will start compensating locals within a few days for land acquisition in the ambitious Hatirjheel-Begunbari development project in the heart of the capital.
Around Tk 488 crore has been handed over to the Dhaka deputy commissioner for the compensation.
Diarrhoea, which has broken out in alarming proportions in Dhaka, has claimed the life of a six-year-old girl and afflicted more than 700 others till 5:00pm on Sunday.
The ICDDR,B received 908 patients on Saturday, 775 on Friday and 899 on Thursday.
Battery-run three-wheelers have been plying the Dhaka city roads for about a year without approval of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Dhaka City Corporation.
