Jamshoro District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar has approved 38 schemes of village electrification, water supply, road and drainage for remote areas of the district, costing Rs62.5 million.

The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has started supplying drinking water to five of its 14 added wards, with a promise of covering the remaining ones by the end of this year.

CIWEM has backed this year's sanitation-themed World Water Day and issued a reminder that billions of people have no access to adequate sanitation.

Residential students of Rajshahi University (RU) staged angry demonstration on the campus yesterday demanding smooth water and power supply at RU residential dormitories.

The Galyat Development Authority (GDA) will commence work by next week on two reservoirs, each having a capacity of 50,000 gallons water to cater to the needs of the people residing in the hilly areas

An additional 2.88 million acre feet (MAF) water will be available for irrigation after the completion of Mangla Dam Raising Project.

They both have the same names, worked as bankers, were in the same college, worked in the same city of Phuentsholing for some time and are also good friends.

SEVERAL hundred landless people formed a human chain on the premises of Raiganj upazila council in Sirajganj Tuesday to press home their demands, including eviction of land grabbers.