Dhaka, Feb 11 – Bottle gourd farming on fallow lands of fisheries is gaining popularity in the district of Bagerhat due to its less production cost.
Category: Environment
Genocide or not, unacceptable: British HC
Dhaka, Feb 10 – The British, Canadian and Australian high commissioners in Dhaka have been left shaken by harrowing tales of violence and suffering they heard from Rohingya refugees in a registered camp in Kutupalong of Cox’s Bazaar.
UK has sullied its proud history of helping child refugees
A statue of five young children, gathered around their suitcases and looking a little lost, sits outside London’s Liverpool Street Station. It’s a gift to the people of Britain on behalf of the children of Kindertransport, the rescue effort that…
Trump loses appeal against immigration ban suspension
Federal appeals court unanimously votes against reinstatement of immigration ban Keegan Hamilton on Feb 9, 2017 A federal appeals court declined to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries on Thursday, potentially setting the stage for…
Ambitious science based GHG emissions targets initiative
Husqvarna Group is the first Swedish listed company and the world’s first forest and garden company, to have its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative. The Science Based Target Initiative works with companies to…
Rohingyas: Refugee Camp narrative of hope, despair
Abu Raihan MuammedKhalid This is a story of the most unfortunate people of our time. Their own country rejects them. The country they came in denies them. This is a story of the Rohingya refugees living in Kutupalong Refugee Camp…
US keen to know more about Rohingya relocation plan
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat on Thursday said they need to know a lot more details about government’s proposal to relocate Rohingyas to Hatiya. “We asked lot of questions about the proposal because we are asked to support the…
Reject Rohingya Refugee Relocation Plan: HRW
The Bangladeshi government should immediately drop its plan to transfer Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited, undeveloped coastal island, Human Rights Watch said today. Relocating the refugees from the Cox’s Bazar area to Thengar Char island would deprive them of their…
Women4Climate Conference in NYC March 15
New York City — On January 21, millions of women marched in solidarity on every continent around the globe to protect basic human rights. But when it comes to local government, women haven’t just broken through the glass ceiling –…
West Nile virus epidemics made worse by drought: study
Drought has sharply boosted the intensity of deadly West Nile virus epidemics, which are set to worsen with global warming, scientists reported Wednesday. Their research, published in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B, offers the best explanation of why the…
Start-up fever grips young tech-savvy Indians
In the basement of a Bangalore building, hundreds of young Indians sit in neat rows of desks typing furiously, all dreaming of becoming the new Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. A quarter of a century after liberalisation kick-started India’s economic…
Dhaka briefs envoys on Rohingya situation
Foreign Minister Mr. A H Mahmood Ali, MP, briefed the members of the diplomatic community on the situation of Myanmar refugees and undocumented Myanmar nationals at the State Guest House Padma today. About 60 (sixty) Ambassadors/High Commissioners / Heads of…
UN Secretary General urges lifting of Trump’s US travel ban
Geneva, 2 Feb (Kanaga Raja) – The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who took office in January, in a reference to US President Donald Trump’s Executive Order that suspends the entire US refugee program as well as bars nationals from seven…
Climate change may overload US electrical grid: study
As the planet warms due to climate change and hot days become more common, the US electrical grid could be unable to meet peak energy needs by century’s end, researchers warned Monday. The cost to upgrade the US electrical grid…
Mahmood Ali praises BDRC for service to Rohingya
Dhaka – Minister of Foreign Affairs Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali on monday praised Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS)’s role for aiding Rohingya refugees in the country.
Bangladesh hit by refugee crisis, says PM
Describing the refugee crisis as a global problem, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh has also been hit by it due to the intrusion of Myanmar nationals into the country. She made the remarks when German MPs Hans-Peter…
Environment Deptt action against 23 polluting factories
Dhaka – The department of environment (DoE) has taken legal action against 23 factories including 14 washing and dyeing factories whose electricity connections were snapped for polluting the environment. According to DoE, a court of monitoring and enforcement under the…
Nepal’s Capital 7th most polluted city in the world
Nepal’s capital Kathmandu has been dubbed as the seventh most polluted city in the world, thanks to rampant air and water pollution. Numbeo recently made public the pollution ranking of 290 cities around the world.With pollution index 97.73, Kathmandu featured…
Stress-tolerant crops can ensure food security
Agriculture and environmental experts have said innovation and enhanced cultivation of more stress-tolerant and disease- resistant crops could keep agro-production increasing to ensure food security amid changing climate. They also viewed that adaptation to changing climate with continuous innovation of…
Trump: US will win appeal of judge’s travel ban order
US President Donald Trump said the Justice Department will win an appeal filed late Saturday of a judge’s order lifting a travel ban he had imposed on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries. “We’ll win. For the safety of the…
Struggle for land and survival in Kenya’s restive highlands
The broad plains of Mugie, a huge estate on a high plateau northwest of Mount Kenya, are crisscrossed with cattle trails and the wildlife is mostly gone. The knee-high grass remains, but not for long, reckons manager Josh Perrett. Tensions…
BD, India, Bhutan deal likely soon for hydropower in Bhutan
Dhaka, Feb 3 – Bangladesh, India and Bhutan are likely to constitute a tri-nation joint venture for developing an 1100 MW hydropower plant in Bhutan. According to official sources, the three nations have already completed initial discussions to sign a…
‘Island chosen for Rohingya refugees uninhabited, flooded’
The island where Bangladesh is shifting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar is a desolate landscape without buildings or human habitation, reports Reuters. According to the Reuters report titled ‘Pirates, cyclones and mud: Bangladesh’s island solution to Rohingya crisis’ published Friday, the…
EU leaders in Malta, hoping to curb African migration
European Union leaders meet on Malta on Friday to endorse plans they hope can forestall a new wave spring of migrants sailing for Italy from Africa, but aware that anarchy in Libya means any quick fix is a long shot.…
Surge in electric cars may blindside big oil
Oil companies underestimating the global market for electric vehicles could be caught unaware by weakened demand for petrol within a decade, analysts said Wednesday. Falling costs of electric cars and renewable technology may halt growth in oil demand from as…
Asia architects use green solutions to cool buildings
Spend five minutes in humid Ho Chi Minh City and you’ll probably be running for cover into the nearest air-conditioned refuge.
Tanners close production at Hazaribagh in capital Dhaka
Dhaka – Tanners have stopped over all operation of the factories in city’s Hazaribagh yesterday incompliance with the government set deadline January 31.
Beleaguered bees hit by ‘deformed wing virus’
A wing-deforming virus shortens the lifespan of wild honeybees already contending with a startlingly long list of existential threats, researchers said Wednesday. Spread by microscopic mites, the microbe disrupts bees’ foraging and curtails their lives, experiments confirmed for the first…
Trump’s entry ban – linked to the Neo-Con agenda
By Chandra Muzaffar President Donald Trump’s ban on nationals from 7 Muslim majority countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) entering the United States of America for a period of 90 days has brought to the fore the role…
India mourns one of its oldest elephants, Indira
One of the world’s oldest elephants, Indira, has died in her eighties in southern India, forest officials say. She had been unwell and stopped eating earlier this month.