Tuberculosis kills at least 64,000 people and also attacks as many as 300,000 every year across the country, health experts said here on Thursday.
Senior officials of the Directorate of Health at their quarterly monitoring meeting here also said that three districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are at high risk of this disease.
LOOTING of the reserve forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has reached alarming proportions. The way the illegal loggers in collusion with some dishonest forest officials are depleting the forest resources of Rangamati has again become glaringly evident from a recent report in this paper.
The World Bank is planning to start detailed project preparation work for the proposed Chittagong Water Supply Improvement and Sanitation Project to improve the water supply and sanitation services in the port city of Chittagong.
Power crisis is likely to ease in Chittagong with two rental and one state-run power plants expecting to generate 227 megawatt more power by April next year.
Of the three plants, a 22-MW rental power plant at Barabkunda in Sitakunda will go into operation by this month.
The Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) has taken initiative to beat the persistent water crisis in the port city, reviving a foreign-financed project that have been shelved for the last eight years.
High salinity in the down stream water of the River Karnaphuli, its major boughs and canals has reportedly been posing serious threat to usual output of the winter crop (Boro) at vast areas here in southern Chittagong apart from hindering safe drinking water supply in the port city.
Rapidly expanding urban settlements in the developing world face severe climatic risks in light of climate change. Urban populations will increasingly be forced to cope with increased incidents of flooding, air and water pollution, heat stress and
Green groups Green Voice and Sheba jointly formed a human chain in Dhaka on Friday, protesting at local and international move to break a toxic ship at the Chittagong port.
A minor girl died and about 60 people fell sick Saturday night after they had reportedly drunk contaminated supply water at Sabak Colony of Jamal Khan in Chittagong.
Ten-year-old Dipa Dash, daughter of Khoka Das and student of Class V, died on her way to Chittagong Medical College Hospital after she had contracted diarrhoea, the family said.
Dhaka is the place which was made as point of attraction for all kinds of human activities since four hundred years back. Since then it has been growing with urban characteristics but in little planned manner. The rate of growth was not that much steeper than other surrounding growth centres.
