Institute of Integrated Rural Development (IIRD), a local NGO has been short-listed for one million dollar Rio Tinto Prize for Sustainability.

Americans for UNFPA President, Anika Rahman, a Bangladeshi-American, rang the NASDAQ stock Market, Inc. Opening Bell on Thursday April 9 last. While thanking the Obama Administration and Congress for their support of the world's women, she will call on all of us to declare, "I am an American for UNFPA."

Bangladesh and Norway Tuesday agreed to develop a strategic partnership in combating global climate change, curbing corruption and improving the quality of governance besides making joint effort for mobilizing funds for offsetting adversities of the global financial flue.

Mango production in the region is appeared to fall around 25 to 30 percent this season due to the continuous drought like climatic condition frustrating the farmers and the traders concerned.

Horticulture scientists and the farmers said that the green mangoes are falling abnormally for the last couple of days due to long-time absence of rainfall along with high temperature.

Business leaders from some of the world's biggest companies recently called for water, energy and climate change to be linked in global negotiations, such as the international climate talks due to culminate in Copenhagen in December.

ACCORDING to a recent study carried out by the UN agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation, intensive cropping in some agro-ecological regions of the country is causing long term degradation of natural resources and the environment and hampering food security.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday afternoon said due attention will be given to the next national budget for protecting homegrown industries and keeping prices of essentials within the purchasing capacity of common people.

Sheikh Hasina will focus on the protection of the homegrown industries to make them able to export their products after fulfilling local demands.

Mango production in the region is appeared to fall around 25 to 30 percent this season due to the continuous drought like climatic condition frustrating the farmers and the traders concerned.

Horticulture scientists and the farmers said that the green mangoes are falling abnormally for the last couple of days due to long-time absence of rainfall along with high temperature.

With the view to increase health awareness and enrich level of health knowledge, Apollo Hospitals Dhaka organised Heath Care Awareness Programme for the Staffs of Lanka BangIa Securities at its Banani Office in the capital.

Cyclone Bijli hit the Cox'sbazar and Chittagong coasts with a maximum windspeed of 90 kilometres an hour at 7:30 PM last night.

The cyclone was crossing the costal areas when the report filed late last night.