Task force to protect environment
The deputy commissioner (DC) of Dhaka district has decided to form a task force of concerned government authorities to protect against environmental pollution, especially water pollution, air pollution
New Age (Bangladesh)
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Green activists want law to reduce dust pollution in city
The government should enact and enforce a law that would keep provisions against dust and particle pollution, demanded a group of green activists in Dhaka on Monday. The activists of Save the Environment
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40pc of children stunted: UNICEF
The UNICEF executive director, Anthony Lake, on Wednesday said that government needed to work more for the children at risk to reduce deprivation among them in low-performing rural areas and urban slums.
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Pollution rise ‘worsens’ South Asia’s winter smog
A rapid rise in air pollution from fossil fuels and biomass burning has worsened winter smog and extended its duration in many parts of South Asia, scientists and officials have said. In Bangladesh,
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Barapukuria people postpone hunger strike till Jan 30
Affected villagers of Barapukuria coal mine area at Phulbari in Dinajpur postponed on Thursday night their hunger strike till January 30. More than five hundreds people of 10 affected villages around
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ADB to finance roads to be linked with Asian Highway
The Asian Development Bank on Monday showed its interest in providing funds for upgrading highways to be connected with the Asian Highway, communications ministry officials said. They said that ADB
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Global food prices remain volatile: FAO
Global food prices may drop slightly in the coming months but will remain volatile, the new head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jose Graziano da Silva, said Tuesday. ‘We are expecting that
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Govt urged to resist Tipaimukh Dam plan
Experts and right activists on Sunday urged the government to resist India’s plan for Tipaimukh dam on the river Barak by involving experts and the common people in the procession. They also demanded
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Tipai dam a ‘death trap’ for Bangladesh: left parties
Left political leaders on Monday described India’s under construction Tipaimukh Dam as the ‘death trap’ for Bangladesh. They said that India was unilaterally building the dam violating agreements with
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All Dhaka city people yet to get safe drinking water
The Awami League-led government is yet to fulfil its electoral pledge of supplying pure drinking water to the entire population by 2011, failing even to provide safe drinking water to all the citizens
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New gas find at Fenchuganj reserve
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited has made new gas discoveries in the Fenchuganj gas field. The oil and gas exploration agency struck gas while conducting a