More than two thirds of CEOs (67 percent) believe that business is not doing enough to address global sustainability challenges, while the same percentage report that the private sector is not making sufficient efforts to address global sustainability challenges, according…
A town dating back more than 2,000 years has been discovered on the northwest coast of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel’s Ginosar valley.
Commerce Minister GM Quader said the government has stepped up efforts to build a new embankment at Rajpur union point to protect the people from the erosion of Teesta river.
International talks on establishing huge marine reserves in Antarctica have failed to reach a consensus.
Participants at a campaign to ensure a child’s rural to urban safe migration and prevent trafficking and abuse of children stressed on opening registration centers at grassroots level for preserving facts of migrated children.
Discussants at a prgramme on “Safe Migration of Workers: Bangladesh Perspective” in Babuganj upazila of Barisal on Wednesday stressed for safety and security of the migrant workers by maintaining legal procedure with transparency and accountability. The commitment of high commissions,…
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has announced Taka 797 crore budget for the Ministry of Environment and Forests for next fiscal year setting government’s four priority spending areas in this sector.
‘Magurchhera Day’ was observed here on Thursday to recall the incident in which the Magunchhara gas well blew up in 1997. Different political, social and environmental organisations have taken up various programmes to press home their demand for realising compensations…
In defiance of the existing rules, two saw mills are being set up by influential businessmen at Uttar Rabirbazar in Kulaura upazila of the district. Forest department sources said in case of getting permission to set up a saw mill,…
The unscrupulous owners of a big number of illegal clinics have been running their businesses in different areas of Sylhet district for a long time. According to civil society sources, most of these clinics have been set up directly or…
A mobile court here on Tuesday realised Tk 70,000 as fine from two wholesalers for selling formalin-mixed mangoes. A mobile court, led by Executive Magistrate Habibul Hasan Rumi, conducted a drive in Station Road area of the district town at…
Coast Guard officials said they seized arms and ammunition after a gunbattle with ‘forest-bandits’ in the Sunderbans early on Wednesday.
The divisional round of National Earth Olympiad 2013 (NEO 13) on environmental and earth science held in Barisal Friday to spread knowledge on geology, meteorology, terrestrial astronomy and environmental sciences. The programme held at Udyan School auditorium of the city…
Barisal divisional office of the Department of Environment realised Tk. 1, 76, 52, 275 as fine in one year from polluting transports as against Tk. 2.81 core in previous four years. Sukumar Biswas, divisional director of environment in Barisal, acknowledged…
The World Environment Day was observed at Bangladesh Agricultural University(BAU) campus on Wednesday. The World Environment Day was organized by Department of Environmental Science of BAU. A seminar on Environment Day held at the conference hall of BAU while Vice-Chancellor…
The World Environment Day-2013 will be observed in the country on Wednesday as elsewhere across the globe with a focus on reducing food waste.
An anti-tobacco rally was held at Nandail Junction on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on Saturday. Jointly organised by the Nandail Swajon Somabesh, Seba Foundation, NATAB and Nandail Homepathy Association the discussion meeting was presided over by Dr.…
A six-day ‘National Environment Olympiad 2013’ has been started at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban in Dhaka University (DU) from May 31 with the theme “Think. Eat. Save (Reduce Your Food print).”
Sordid environment in the 70 slums of Comilla City Corporation (CCC) area has kept their 1.5 lakh dwellers at risk of being attacked with tuberculosis. CCC sources said these slum dwellers live in damp and dirty places, which creates exposure…
Speakers in a function here on Tuesday stressed the need for bringing the underprivileged char dwellers under existing facilities of the state to change their socio-economic condition.
Registration centers would be opened in Barisal district from next month for preserving facts to ensure children’s rural to urban safe migration and prevent trafficking and abuse of children.
At least seven people have died and nearly 3,000 left homeless as the cyclonic storm Mahasen caused heavy rains in the north and eastern parts of Sri Lanka.
The US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena has pitched for concerted efforts before and after disasters.
Thunderbolt killed freedom fighter in Borolekha upazila of the district on Saturday at around 10am. Officer-in-Charge of Borolekha police station, Salim Newaz, said, freedom fighter Subud Chandra Malaker (65) of Kudali village in Daserbazar Union was struck by lightning during…
In June 2012 a young British architect set sail for Bangladesh, working in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UK) for a local organization – Simple Action For the Environment (SAFE).
Building construction workers holding a rally to observe May-Day on Wednesday mourned the recent Savar tragedy demanded enforcement of building construction code with complete insurance and opening separate wing for speedy rescue and salvage operation management in building collapse incidents.
Discussants at a prgramme in Uzirpur of Barisal on Tuesday stressed safety and security of the migrant workers through maintaining legal procedures with transparency and accountability.
Most of the buildings in the outskirts of the Sylhet were constructed illegally as the owners of those buildings did not obtain SCC approval. Not only that around 90 percent buildings in Sylhet have been built illegally.
Despite its keen interest to join the four-nation Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, Bangladesh is yet to get any technical details of the region’s mega energy scheme.
BENTONVILLE, Ark: As part of their ongoing commitment to improving fire safety standards in Bangladesh, today Walmart announced a $1.6 million donation to the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a U.S. based NGO, to establish the Environmental Health and Safety…