Bangladesh and UK Parliamentary Groups have launched a joint inquiry on climate change to find out how Bangladesh and many other very low carbon dioxide footprints have been prevented from benefiting from mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanism.

The World Bank has offered 130 million US dollar as long-term credit to install solar energy panels as the country planned to add 1,445megawatt electricity to the system by 2014 under a desperate campaign exploring various means.

In protest against the construction of Tipaimukh dam across the river Borak in Monipur state of India, a 3-day Long March towards the dam will start today at 10.00 am from the Central Shaheed Minar in the city.

Some 200 out of around 250 licensed drug companies are churning out sub-standard medicines, officials of the Directorate of Drug Administration allege, while lawyers say the country's lone drug court remains idle as authorities, including the DDA, fail to take legal action against the offenders.

That the market is flooded with adulterated medicines is a longtime allegation.

At least 80 percent people in rural areas of the district are drinking arsenic contaminant water. For this reason a panic have been created among the people in four upazilas of the district.

Twenty Bangladeshi dentists and dental students of Hokkaido University of Japan will jointly conduct a dental camping from August 8 to 20 in primary schools of Mohichail union in Chandina Upazila of Comilla district.

World Bank will provide 40,000 US dollar as grant to each of the 20 selected civil society organisations of South Asian countries to address the issue of improving infant and child nutrition.

Ten million residents of Dhaka city are exposed to environmental hazards and this situation is worsening day by day. In a city already overloaded with population, more people from all over the country are coming with desperate bid to settle. The influx of population has resulted in not only high density, but also growth of slums at a more alarming rate.

Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said on Saturday old and junk vehicles plying in the city for more than 20 years would be removed from the roads.

The WASA drainage system covers only 37 percent area in Dhaka City leaving the most of the metropolis vulnerable to severe waterlogging particularly during the monsoon.