Bangladesh on Monday sought US support for tapping solar power to use for irrigation purposes to reduce dependency on highly subsidized diesel and electricity to run the existing shallow pumps.

Child mortality rate in Bangladesh fell by an average 5.3 percent annually from 1993 to 2007 by providing excess care to the health of poor mothers.

At least 922 dengue patients haveso far been admitted to different private and public hospitals in the capitalwith an indication of rise in number in comparison to the same time of lastyear when th

There is no denying that climate change has been affecting the higher frequency and intensity of natural disasters in the last quarter century.

Over 10,000 deer of the Sundarbans are poached and consumedper year by local people living in eight upazilas adjacent to the mangroveforest.

The recent detection of cases of avian influenza in humansunderscores the ongoing risk of human infection with new strains of influenza,says a recent ICDDR,B study.

About two hundred people in the Sylhet city on Monday formed a human chain, protesting at an Indian government move to build a dam at Tipaimukh on the River Barak, the upper region of Rivers Surma

AS reported recently by media, the Asian Development Bank has 'agreed in principle' to provide financial support to Bangladesh for implementing a solar project for generation of 500MW power.

Enacted in 1993, before climate change was so prominent in the public media eye, the US Northwest Forest Plan's primary goal was the conservation of old growth forests on public land, and thereby a

The government has undertaken an action plan for saving theRoyal Bengal Tigers of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forests, atop forest official said here on Friday.