Poisonous mangoes harmful to human body are randomly selling in all posh and kitchen markets in city and rural hat and bazaars, different sources said. Yellow coloured ripe mangoes are available in different areas of the city and these mangoes were riped through mixing "carbaid' chemical powder which is very much harmful for health.

30 lakh hectares of forest land out of a statistical figure of 45 lakh hectares land in Bangladesh have been marked, according to a news agency. The remaining of the 15 lakh hectares of unidentified forest land is located under 27 districts.

Four people were killed, scores injured, hundreds of houses razed, trees and power supply poles uprooted as nor'wester lashed Thakurgaon, Bogra, Nilphamari and Manikganj on Monday and Tuesday.

The use of the banned polythene shopping bags has increased in the Sylhet city, posing serious threats to the city environment, observe green activists. In all city shops and markets, shopkeepers frequently use these bags to pack their goods to give to the customers.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide US$ 47.3 million loan to Bangladesh to reduce poverty and hunger of the people living on chars (newly accreted coastal lands).

An agreement has been signed between the Bashundhara Paper Mills Ltd (BPML) and Specialty Minerals Inc of USA at the conference room of East West Media Group Ltd (EWMGL) on Sunday afternoon to produce Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC), an essential ingredient for whiter and better quality paper, where carbon dioxide (C02) will be used as the basic raw material.

Bangladesh and Sweden have been nominated co-chairs of the Green Climate Fund monitoring and evaluation workstream. Both Bangladesh and Sweden were nominated co-chairs of the fund at the first meeting of the transitional committee meeting of the GCF held in Mexico City on April 28-29, an official release said here on Monday.

Bangladesh is planning to take lease of huge amounts of land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania for farming aiming at ensuring its food security as well as creating jobs for its farmers. President Zillur Rahman was apprised of the developments in this regard by the newly appointed Bangladesh Ambassador to Kenya, Wahidur Rahman, at Bangabhaban here on Monday.

Tata, an India-based leading industrial conglomerate, has proposed that it will invest Taka 1500 crore to set up an automobile industry in Bangladesh. President of India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI) Matlub Ahmed said this to reporters after a 26- member Indian delegation met Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan at his Secretariat office here on Sunday.

The parliamentary standing committee on Planning Ministry asked the Environment and Forest Ministry to halt establishment of brick-kiln on agriculture land and felling of trees at forest. The committee stressed the need for formulation of a policy for stopping the use of agriculture land for other than crop production purpose.