'Bill for polythene ban to be placed in current session'
Environment and Forest Minister Shahjahan Siraj on Sunday reiterated the Bangladesh government's resolve to pursue its green agenda disclosing that a bill for the countrywide ban on polythene
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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A total ban on Poybags?
Nobody can deny that polybags if left around are bad for the environment. If burned they are even worse polluters as they can affect human health yet, despite all this, the drastic action taken by
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Amendment to environment related laws stressed
Speakers at a people's consultation stressed the need for amendment to the existing environment-related laws and their strict enforcement to protect bio-diversity and natural uniqueness of Chittagong
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Call to enact laws to save animal species
Speakers at a workshop in Dhaka (Bangladesh) stressed the need for formulating National Inventory of native agricultural and forest biodiversity and enacting necessary laws to save the animal
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Tackling the arsenic disaster
Bangladesh people are urging the government to come out of its slumber and do something about arsenic in the ground water that most people in this beleaguered land drink. It was all to no avail and
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Goat plague claims 5000 lives in Chapai-Nawabganj
PPR(Pestedes Petitis Ruminant) known as goat-plague broke out sporadically indifferent parts of Chapai-Nawabganj district (Bangladesh) in early part of the last year and since then it has claimed at
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Food safety concerns
Random surveys by the Public Health Development of a selection of foods on sale in Dhaka have reportedly revealed that most are of questionable quality. Although cynics have been heard questioning
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700 Bangladeshi children die everyday
Despite Bangladesh government's various steps to increase the nutrition status of the nation, the malnutrition level in the country still remains highest in the world, a recent report of the World
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Two bills for pollution prevention passed
Bangladesh Parliament on Wednesday passed two bills for preventing environmental pollution one banning production and use of polythene shopping bags and another proscribing materials harmful to
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Excessive arsenicosis in tubewells: Shariatpur people panicky
The arsenic content beyond the normal limit has been detected in tubewell water of different villages in Shariatpur, Madaripur and Faridpur districts (Bangladesh) creating panic among 30 lakh people