Country's more than 40 percent children aged under five years and one-third of mothers suffer from malnutrition, a nutrition specialist of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) said here on Monday.

Nadi Bachao Andalon Committee today formed a human chain in the district town to press home their demand to save the Chitra River from pollution and the clutches of land-graver.

Speakers called upon the concerned authorities to remove all illegal structures erected on the bank of the river immediately.

At least 4kms of area and 1,000 bighas of cropland of Pakuria union in Bagha upazila went into the gorge of the river Padma in last two weeks as erosion by the river intensified during the monsoon this year.

The very old proverb 'Barind is a land whose name is written in water' seems to be true to its alphabets as without water, the existence of the vast Barind region under greater Rajshahi districts (Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Naogaon and Natore) is going to become extinct.

National Water Resources Database (NWRD) is playing a very important role in fulfilling the demands for water resources planners by providing latest database on water resources.

The NWRD also help planners to make their functions more accurate by providing correct database and relevant information.

The World Bank has launched a study on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh in partnership with the British, the Netherlands and Switzerland Governments.

The multinational lender also launched the study globally. Other than Bangladesh, this study will be carried out in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Vietnam and Samoa.

Japan will aid US$9.1 million Bangladesh under World Food Programme to provide food assistance to the ultra-poor living in areas to floods, riverbank erosion, coastal cyclones and tidal surges.

The United Nations World Food Prgoramme (WFP) yesterday welcomed the Japanese contribution of US $9.1 million.

Experts on Sunday said, over two million poor people in Bangladesh those who are living in the low-lying areas and coastal region, have been suffering from the adverse effects of climate changes.

Some 57,000 people die of the diseases caused by tobacco products in the country every year.

Besides, some 3.82 lakh people get maimed due to tobacco related diseases per year, said speakers at a view exchange meeting on 'Role of media for implementation of Tobacco Control Act'.

ACCORDING to various reports as published recently in the national media, the dwindling size of farms, rise in landlessness and depletion of farmland are posing formidable threats to agriculture besides increasing poverty in the country. The average farm size has come down to less than 0.6 hectares and the percentage of landless people stands at 58.