DHAKA suffers from water shortage all the year round but city dwellers have taken it as part of their life, so they don't raise a hue and cry. But in summer it gets terribly acute and the people come out to the streets with empty pots and pitchers.

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.

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday told that the involvement of lawmakers in Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) activities is the responsible for the on going water crisis in the capital.

He also urged the lawmakers not to be involved with other unnecessary activities, mainly in maintaining law and order and the issue is a matter of public interest.

Dhaka is facing a new problem in the form of water crisis because of continuous dry weather condition. Still the people are not paying much attention to this problem. Water is being wasted continuously in household activities and sometimes even water taps are kept open unnecessarily. But time has come to use water in the most judicious manner. Everything in our earth is limited.

The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port yesterday urged the government to protect energy and mineral resources from foreign company lobbyists.

Diarrhoea, which has broken out in alarming proportions in Dhaka, has claimed the life of a six-year-old girl and afflicted more than 700 others till 5:00pm on Sunday.
The ICDDR,B received 908 patients on Saturday, 775 on Friday and 899 on Thursday.

Battery-run three-wheelers have been plying the Dhaka city roads for about a year without approval of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Dhaka City Corporation.

Bangladesh authorities reopened ports on Saturday and hundreds of thousands of people headed home after a cyclonic storm crossed the coast causing less damage than feared, officials said.

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.

- Bangladesh advised ports to hoist cautionary signals and asked all fishing boats and trawlers not to venture into deep seas as a tropical storm brewed in the Bay of Bengal, the meteorological department said on Wednesday.

The storm packing winds up to 50 km (31 miles) was 1,135 km (710 miles) southwest of the country's main Chittagong port at 0000 GMT.