THE government is going to enact new laws soon to make best use of water resources in apprehension that the country may face acute water shortage in the future. A draft to this effect is in place for consultations with people concerned before finalising it for enactment.

The Bangladesh Protected Tourism Area and Special Tourism Zone Bill, 2010 was placed in the House on Wednesday.

Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Ghulam Mohammad Quader introduced the bill.

In the bill, a proposal has been made to declare such areas as tourism protected areas through gazette notifications which have immense potentialities as tourism industry.

Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) and the Rural Power Company Ltd (RPCL) will jointly set up a new power generation plant in the country.

The move is seen as part of the Government's ongoing efforts to generate required power aiming to boost the nation's recovery from the present power crisis.

The government in its proposed budget for 2010-2011 fiscal, has allocated Tk 700 crore to mitigate effects of disasters and natural calamities due to climate change and to rehabilitate the dislocated people.

Minister for Finance AMA Muhith yesterday disclosed this in his budget speech given in Parliament.

The government had allocated same amount of money to deal with the climate change issue

While developing country parties are worried with the disbursement of fast-track climate

fund committed by developed countries in Copenhagen, a new institutional arrangement for financing came into focus in the ongoing climate change meeting here in Bonn today.

Delegates of the country parties of the UNFCCC discussed the issue in a meeting of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperati

Malnutrition among under five children of Narsingdi district is still high due to poverty, inadequate knowledge about food value and lack of awareness.

Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) at press conference yesterday strongly criticised the government decision of setting up nuclear power plants in the country with Russian cooperation and urged to opt alternative way for solving the present power crisis.

Leaders of the PDP said that the decision would be against humanity and risky for the world's most density populated country like Bangladesh,

The Biogas Week-2010 ended here on Saturday with a target of installing 36,000 biogas plants in the country by 2012.

Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), a state- run non-banking financial institution, observed the Week amid different programmes.

The programmes included declaration of a 'Biogas Union', holding district level rallies and awareness-creating campaigns, IDCOL sour

The two-day Asia Regional Conference of Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) ended here on Monday adopting a joint declaration to help least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing Countries (SIDS) in Asia to cope with the climate change.

Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Maldives signed the joint declaration at a city hotel.

Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with development partners on establishing a climate change fund to channelize 110 million US dollars or more in grant funds to millions of Bangladeshis in order to build their resilience to the effects of climate change.

The fund, known as Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund, was established on Monday in the NEC Conference Room.

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