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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CWASA sings contract to build new water plants
The Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority on Wednesday signed a contract under Karnaphuli Water Supply Project with two Chinese construction firms to build a new water supply plant at a cost of Tk 1510 crore. The project includes intake facility and treatment plant, transmission and distribution pipelines reservoirs. CWASA officials signed the contract with China National Technical
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Govt contradicts itself over forest coverage
The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith in April admitted that the forest coverage was nine per cent of the country
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Fighting child labour in Bangladesh
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Tk 8,889cr for health sector
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A pointer on govts apathy to forest conservation
IT IS a poignant pointer on the general apathy of the ruling class, irrespective of their partisan affiliation, to the environment and ecology that the highest judiciary needs to come forward with rulings, sometimes suo motto and in response to public interest writ petition, asking the government to prevent degradation of the environment and destruction of the ecology.
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Fence around Pagla sewage treatment plant lagoons soon
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is going to set up boundary wall around the Pagla Sewage Treatment Plant to stop illegal fish farming in the toxic lagoons, senior officials said. Like almost every year, the authorities also carried out a drive this year in May to kill the fishes reared illegally in 16 lagoons of the sewage treatment plant by locally influential people, they added.
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Dhaka’s air most polluted in world
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Stop waste flow into Buriganga
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> The High Court on Wednesday directed the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority to seal within one year all the sewers that discharge waste, and pipes that discharge
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Vehicles fined in Chittagong
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> A Chittagong mobile court fined 13 different modes of vehicles on charge of polluting environment through emitting black smoke at WASA crossing in the city on Wednesday.</p>
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Country set to install solar-grid
Infrastructure Development Company Limited, the state-owned financial institution, is set to install 2,000 solar PV-based mini-grid power plants in the off-grid areas of the country.