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Dhaka Thursday,  Mar 28, 2024

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Dhaka and New Delhi reiterated their commitment to the finalisation of an interim agreement for sharing the waters of the Teesta and Feni rivers. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj reached the decision at the third meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) held in New Delhi. The two ministers noted that the ratification process following the signing of the Protocol to the Land... »
Assuring her government will do everything necessary for conservation of the tigers, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the tiger range countries to continue their sincere efforts for protecting tigers. “I want to assure you all that my government will do everything and continue all sorts of cooperation for conservation of the tigers. I also hope that the tiger range countries would keep their continued efforts for protecting tigers.... »
Consulates of UK, France and Germany have visited three climate adaptation projects in Dhamrai of Dhaka to emphasise on joint climate diplomacy in Bangladesh. British High Commissioner Robert W Gibson, French Chargé Babou Kamichetty and German Chargé Dr Ferdinand von Weyhe visited Dhamrai on Monday. They visited a solar home system, solar irrigation systems and a domestic biogas and manure national programme providing gas for cooking. They saw for themselves... »
The Department of Environment (DoE), with support from GIZ, the German Development Cooperation, organized an intensive training for the officials of DoE on 24th and 25th of September 2013 to finalize standards and guidelines, which will become part of the environmental regulations for industrialsludge. Promotion of Social and Environmental Standards in the Industry (PSES), a joint project of the governments of Bangladesh and Germany, implemented by Deutsche GesellschaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH,... »
DHAKA, Sept 03, 2014: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today put emphasis on keeping operative all the rivers of the country, especially six rivers around Dhaka city, by restoring their navigability through dredging. “It would help develop the country’s communication system and transportation of goods smoothly. Besides, tourist spots would be built on the banks of the rivers through their beautification,” she said. The Prime Minister expressed the views when a... »
Speakers, at a workshop, said global warming and climate change may reduce rice yields by 50 percents in 2070. The workshop titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice Field: Finding Mitigation Options from Fertilizer Deep Placement and Alternative Wetting Drying” was held at BRRI in Gazipur on Wednesday. Director General of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) Dr Jiban Krishna Biswas said, “Due to the impact of climate change rice production may... »
Stressing the need for using environment-friendly construction materials, environment and forest minister Anwar Hossain Manju sunday said the use of environment-friendly construction materials is needed for sustainable development. “There is no alternative but to use environment-friendly construction materials for sustainable development,” the minister said while speaking at a seminar here. Concord, a private company, organized the seminar. Korean ambassador Lee Yun-young, FEJB chairman Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, Institute of Engineers president... »
ADB study projects 9pc GDP loss by end of century, 23pc crop loss in Bangladesh by 2080 Bangladesh could lose more than 9 percent of its gross domestic product by the end of this century due to the impact of climate change, says the Asian Development Bank. Global warming might cause the country’s annual rice production to fall by 23 percent by 2080, according to an ADB report, titled “Assessing... »
Dhaka has been ranked as the second least liveable city among the world’s 140 cities in this year’s Global Liveability Index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Only Damascus in war-torn Syria lags behind Dhaka, which was placed in second position last year too and at the bottom the year before. The list is prepared based on the scores across a range of criteria, including health care, culture, environment, education... »
Bangladesh has signed two separate loan agreements with the Asian Development Bank for tackling river bank erosion and improving farmland and irrigation systems for agriculture. The Manila-based lender says Bangladesh will use $46 million loan for a project on sustaining high growth and productivity in agriculture. The other agreement for $65 million loan will support state-of-the-art riverbank protection measures to prevent land erosion, which is destroying livelihoods and causing huge... »