A vast uncharted ecological experiment
Genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technology, we are told, has great potential to influence and benefit agriculture including livestock, forestry and fisheries. If true, it must seem to
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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Plan to raise national tree coverage to 20 pc
Bangladesh environment and forest minister Shahjahan Siraj called upon all to turn the three month tree plantation drive beginning into a nationwide movement for protecting the ecology.
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Fish cultivation facing crisis
The river system as well as, lakes ponds and 'haors' in Bangladesh were the main resorts in which fish were produced. Local people has always optimised the water-bases for producing fish, in addition
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Mobile phones and children
At a recent seminar on 'Health Hazards from Radioactive Emission from Laser and Mobile Telephones' at the CIRDAP auditorium in Dhaka (Bangladesh). Dr Abdul Jalil, Director of the Bangladesh Atomic
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AIDS : The Bangladesh scenario
With an increasing in the awareness level, the number of HIV -positive cases is ironically on rise and Bangladesh's AIDS scenario is getting complicated day by day, leaving an anxious syndrome
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Govt to set up fish sanctuary at Kaptai Lake
The Bangladesh government has decided to set up a fish sanctuary on 13-km land of Kaptai Lake under Mohalchhari for increasing fish preservation and reproduction.
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Malaria claims 28 lives in Khagrachhari
Malaria, a tropical disease that broke out in an epidemic form in Khagrachhari district (Bangladesh) claimed lives of 28 people and afflicted 10000 others in the last month.
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Air pollution claims 15000 lives in a year : WB
Air pollution, caused by uncontrolled emissions from motor vehicles, is mainly responsible for 15000 premature deaths and several million cases of illness annually in Dhaka city along, said a World
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Child labour is global issue
The International Labour Organisation, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has reportedly taken the initiative of containing the problem of child labour. Its member countries, which at tend
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Arsenic contamination high risk in Pabna
Some 2087 tubewells in one of the unions in Pabna district (Bangladesh) were marked red prohibiting use of their water for high level of arsenicosis. A recent survey conducted by UNICEF, Dhaka