People panicked by swine flu continue to throng different hospitals of the capital seeking remedy. About 1,242 patients were given treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) till Monday morning.

Though the government has taken initiatives to make the anti-viral drug 'Oseltamivir' easily available for the common people, they are apparently deprived of the benefit.

Flash floods submerged some 20 villages, affecting over 100,000 people, as a flood embankment was breached in several places at Dakope upazila, Khulna, officials said on Saturday.

Bangladesh and Switzerland will work jointly to tackle the challenges of global climate change, as the Swiss side came to an agreement on this united move during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's tour.

More landslides can be expected as climate change exacerbates rainfall intensity - but their impact can be reduced, stresses the UN organization charged with coordinating global disaster risk reduction.

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Farmers worldwide managed 32.2 million hectares of agricultural land organically in 2007, nearly 5 percent more than in the previous year and a 118-percent increase since 2000. Organic farming is now reported in 141 countries; about two thirds of this land area is in industrial countries, and nearly half of the producers are in Africa.

Bangladesh and Switzerland will work jointly to tackle the challenges of global climate change, as the Swiss side came to an agreement on this united move during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's tour.

Flash floods submerged some 20 villages, affecting over 100,000 people, as a flood embankment was breached in several places at Dakope upazila, Khulna, officials said on Saturday.

Twenty-four hours of incessant rain, caused by a low in the Bay of Bengal, has left hundreds of thousands marooned as some 65 villages in Khulna and Barguna districts inundated, WDB officials said on Saturday, blaming delayed or poor repairs to damaged flood barriers after Cyclone Aila hit the southwest region in May.

USE of solar power-driven water pumps is a major alternate energy source for better crop yields in power-starved Bangladesh, according to experts. To ease the country's acute power crisis, solar power can be used as an alternative source of electricity for irrigation and it would at least help reduce 700 to 800 MW in every day's load.