The Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and Jatiya Nodi Rakkha Andolon on Sunday urged Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to request India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi for not to implement the Indian inter-river linking project. The two environmental organizations said in…
The Left Democratic Front on Friday called upon the people to carry forward movement to secure equitable rights on Teesta and other common rivers with a view to facing the threat to the country’s existence. The Front organised which a…
A strong earthquake jolted the capital and some other parts of the country on Wednesday night. The quake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale shook Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Bogra and Pirojpur at 10:25pm, said Met office. The epicentre of…
Kolkata – Researchers from five countries, including India, Egypt and Ghana, will study the effects of climate change on inhabitants of the Ganga-Brahmaputra deltas in Bangladesh and India, an expert said Wednesday. Experts from the UK, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and…
From: American Lung Association Nearly half of all Americans — more than 147 million — live in counties in the U.S. where ozone or particle pollutions levels make the air unhealthy to breathe, according to the American Lung Association’s “State…
Police have filed a case four days after a launch capsized in the Meghna River at Munshiganj’s Gazaria, killing scores of people. Gazaria Police Station SI Haider Hossain Akhand filed the case early on Monday accusing the owner of the…
Speakers at a roundtable on Sunday stressed that good relations between Bangladesh and India should be used in resolving water dispute with the neigbouring country. “The good relations Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has with India should be used to…
BNP vice chairman Major (Retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed yesterday expressed his optimism that the next government of India led by Narendra Modi would not interfere in the internal politics of Bangladesh like the outgoing Congress government. “We do hope that…
Rescuers have pulled out 28 bodies from the Meghna until Friday afternoon after a passenger ferry sank on way to Sureshwar from Dhaka on Thursday. MV Miraj-4 was caught in a storm around 4:30pm on Thursday and sank near Daulatdia…
From: Jeremy Hance, MONGABAY.COM ,Breathing in urban India is hard: of the world’s top twenty cities with the worst air, 13 of them are found in India, according to a new analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite the…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerji and said her opposition was responsible for India and Bangladesh failing to sign the Teesta Water Sharing treaty. Bangladesh and India were all set to ink a deal…
Bangladesh should take concrete steps in ensuring its fair share of water of 54 rivers, including the Teesta River, through negotiations with India, a discussion was told on Saturday. The need for Bangladesh to sign the 1997 UN convention on…
Water Resources Minister Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud on Wednesday said the government will place the regional water issue at the international forum if it fails to realise equitable share of water of trans-boundary rivers through negotiations with India. “We want…
Speakers at a views-exchange meeting here on Tuesday stressed the need for taking effective steps to protect the four rivers surrounding Dhaka city -– Buriganga, Shitalakhya, Turag and Balu — as per the High Court order issued earlier in this…
Speakers at a seminar held at the Jatiya Press Club today underlined the need for united efforts of all to ensure equitable sharing of the Teesta river to keep it flowing from its source to the outfall. The seminar on…
Speakers at a discussion on Tuesday urged the government for allocating more money for scaling up the disaster resilience of the coastal regions. Speaking at the inauguration of a photo exhibition and a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club,…
The plights of farmers and fishermen dependent on rivers in the district are mounting day by day due to indiscriminate water pollution and river encroachment in addition to the diversion of water from the transboundary rivers and their tributaries on…
By Rebecca Morelle The rocky planet, Kepler 186f, is close to the size of Earth and has the potential to hold liquid water, which is critical for life, the team says. Nestled in the Milky Way, it is part of…
The International Farakka Committee (IFC) New York Inc. at a meeting held in New York on Sunday strongly protested the unilateral withdrawal of water of common rivers at upstream in India and said this amounted to an activity against humanity,…
An annular eclipse of the sun will occur on Tuesday. The eclipse will start at 9 hours 52 minutes 36 seconds Bangladesh time and will end at 14 hours 14 minutes 30 seconds. The central eclipse will start at 11…
From: Editor, The Ecologist A study of 245 large dams carried out at Oxford University shows that big hydropower is uneconomic. Actual costs are typically double pre-construction estimates – and have not improved over 70 years.
ENN Staff A new study shows that a surprisingly large amount of the seafood sold in U.S. markets is caught illegally. In fact, 90 percent of U.S. seafood is imported, and according to a new study in the journal Marine Policy, as…
Addressing a discussion meeting at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday termed the sudden rise and the fall in Teesta water flow as a poor quality drama. “It is nothing but a joke that the water…
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the long march of BNP towards Teesta Barrage was a failure one. “BNP leaders indeed made a very insignificant car march in the name of long march,” he said while inspecting the renovation…
At least 43 people have been killed and hundreds of villagers left stranded in devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan, officials say.
Arsenic, industrial pollution, salinity, decrease in groundwater level major reasons. Around 26 million people in Bangladesh do not have access to “improved” drinking water, say Unicef and the World Health Organisation. Bangladesh is among the 10 countries that are home…
The government is yet to know the reason behind Tuesday’s sudden increase of Teesta water flow on the Teesta River at Dalia point of Teesta Barrage. There will be no need of water after 7 days. A highly placed source…
Water levels in the mercurial Teesta river have dramatically risen and fallen with a span of a few hours. On Wednesday, the water level dropped by almost half of what it was after showing a sharp rise on Tuesday. The flow…
The sudden spike in the water levels of the Teesta river has sent the two major political parties of Bangladesh – the Awami League and its fierce rival the BNP – jostling for credit. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the…
Urging neighbouring India to ensure 10,000 cusecs of water to Bangladesh from the Teesta River to maintain good relations between the two countries, BNP on Wednesday concluded its two-day long march to Teesta Barrage at Dalia point. Addressing a concluding…