Bangladesh is going ahead with an ambitious plan to reclaim land from the sea to help relocate people who have lost their homes to sea level rise, erosion and extreme weather.

One-hundred workers of a garments factory had to take treatment at the hospital today after drinking water from the factory canteen.

The managing director of Dhaka Wasa yesterday said all slum dwellers in the capital would be provided with the amenity of legal water supply by this December.

Floods have destroyed crops on nearly 2.75 lakh hectares of land in 29 districts, causing losses to thousands of farmers, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension.

As flood situation continued to deteriorate in different parts of the country, it has brought misery to northern districts leaving a million people marooned and damaging crops, houses and other inf

A mobile court yesterday fined four automatic rice mills in Saidpur upazila for polluting the environment by using polythene bags.

Floods, landslides and a cyclone have made at least 180,000 people in Bangladesh homeless, with thousands living in makeshift shelters on river banks, the International Federation of Red Cross and