Coping with seasonal and mysterious illnesses
Last week a mysterious disease was reported to have taken at least 18 lives in Rajsthali Upazila of Rangamati District in Chittagong Hill Tracts. The local health centre was unable to identify the
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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200 brickfields in Savar pollutes environment
There are 200 brick fields in Savar Upazila threatening the environment and
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Roadside welding shops threatening environment
The unauthorised setting of workshops and factories in the roadside and residential areas in all three upazilas of the Meherpur district have posed a serious threat to the
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Passive smoking harms a child's ability to learn
Fourty-three percent of U.S. children are exposed to tobacco smoke at home! experts say infants are young children up to three years so exposed, doubles the incidence of pneumonia, bronchitis and
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Ban on children's mobile phone use
Bangladesh Forest and Environment Minister Shahjahan Siraj said Bangladesh would impose official ban on children's cellular telephone use very soon to protect the young from invisible and deadly
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New action plan to conserve CHT forests soon
Deputy Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs, Bangladesh Moni Swapon Dewan said that the government would formulate a new action plan very soon to consere the forest resources of the hill
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Rise in sea level to inundate 18 pc land in Bangladesh by 2100
Sea level rise in Bangladesh will inundate 18 per cent of the country by the year 2100, if no special protective measures like embankments are take. According to the estimates of United Nations Inter
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UN training programme for Imams
The United Nations has launched a programme in Bangladesh to train future Imams in subjects like sex education and family planning. The UN believes this is one of the best ways to carry the message
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People's report on the environment
It is no secret that the environment is of intense concern for the poor as they depend on it for their sustenance. Obviously the need to create an environment that is safe and healthy for our
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96 p.c. tubewells found arsenic contaminated in 12 villages of Chuadanga
The Public Health in all the four Upazilas of the district like Chuadanga Sadar, Alamdanga, Damurhuda and Jibannagar (Bangladesh) is being threatened due to increasing arsenic contamination in ground