The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to deploy police on the banks of the Buriganga to prevent disposing wastes into the river.

A HC division bench comprising Justice M Momtaz Uddin Ahmed and Justice Naima Haider also asked the government to form a monitoring committee to keep the Buriganga free from pollution.

The bench asked the chairman of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Autho

Bangladeshs capital city Dhaka has been ranked third in air pollution in the world.

State Minister for Environment and Forest Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said about 20 million people might be displaced from coastal belts as a result of sea level rise following climate change.

He urged all, including government and non-government organisations, to act unitedly to face the challenges of climate change in the country.

Dr Hasan was inaugurating a seminar on "Climate change:

Bangladesh is far behind in taking Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission.

Statistics show that out of 1,800 CDM projects approved by the CDM Executive Board of the United Nations, only two projects of Bangladesh have got the approval.

Bangladesh will grow genetically modified (GM) rice variety known as golden rice by 2012.

The rice variety, rich in vitamin 'A', will help meet the deficiency of the particular vitamin, lack of which causes childhood blindness and weaken immune system.

The Manila-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in an article posted on its web site on Tuesday said the golden rice would grow

The enthusiastic farmers have already started sowing maize seeds in the country's northern region where a target of producing 6,65,912 tonnes of the crop from 1,02,448 hectares has been fixed for this winter season.Official sources in the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) on Tuesday told BSS that 56 percent of the national target of producing 11,70,000 tonnes maize from 1,80,000 hectares w

Government will close down the industries that will not set up Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP).

Dr Hasan Mahmud, State Minister for Environment Ministry, said that government has taken initiatives to increase manpower and activities of the environment bureau.

The government has taken an initiative to amend the Bangladesh Environment Protection Act- 1995 for making it time- befitting to address the environmental hazards and protect the nature.

IMPROPER disposal of medical wastes is a matter of grave concern for human health and environment. Medical waste may carry germs of different deadly diseases. In developing countries, medical waste management has not received much attention. It is usually disposed off randomly. Improper medical waste management is alarming in Bangladesh and poses a serious threat to public health.

The embankments by the rivers of Rupsha and Shibsa are swarmed with temporary shelters housing the people affected by Cyclone Aila. Blue and orange plastic sheeting over their shabby make-shift huts can be seen from miles away while people sit idle waiting for the water to recede.