Tiger (Panthera tigris) populations, on average, have declined 70 per cent across the world, including Bangladesh, in the last 30 years, according to the Living Planet Report 2012.

New Delhi: India is still trying to build a “political consensus” over the issue of Teesta water-sharing pact with Bangladesh.

India has escaped a standoff — a repeat of the South China Sea squabble — with neighbouring Bangladesh following a ruling by International Tribunal for Law of the Sea (ITLOS) that India’s natural g

It has been around three years since the High Court ordered industries indiscriminately discharging waste water to install effluent treatment plants (ETPs) within a year.

The High Court yesterday directed the managements of five readymade garment factories at Ashulia in Savar not to dump any waste on agricultural lands and water bodies.

Dhaka will face a catastrophic situation in the event of a major earthquake ranging 7 to 7.9 magnitude hits the city damaging most of its buildings and utility services.

People became panicked as tremors jolted Bangladesh twice in the afternoon with authorities alerting all coastal districts to a tsunami threat after an earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale

A woman wails beside a diarrhoea-affected baby at ICDDR,B hospital in Dhaka on Sunday. Diarrhoea has taken a bad turn, with patients crowding hospitals every day.

Dhaka: A three-day 'International Meeting of Parliamentarians on Climate Change: Beyond COP-17' begins in Dhaka Wednesday, seeking to formulate a parliamentary alliance involving the countries most