Launching on Dec 16, 2017 to help boost broadcasting, telecom services French company Thales Alenia Space has been given the job of launching Bangladesh’s first satellite as part of the government’s efforts to narrow the digital divide and create new opportunities. The cabinet committee on purchase yesterday approved Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission’s proposal for awarding […]
WHO study shows pedestrians constitute 32pc of those killed on Bangladesh roads every year. Thirty-two percent of the people who die on the roads of Bangladesh every year are pedestrians, says a global report on road safety, exposing how deadly the roads are for pedestrians. The pedestrian mortality rate is 10 percent higher than the […]
IT’S a sad reality that wild-animal rights are grossly violated throughout the world. Aggression like hunting for skins, trophy, uncured trophy, bones, and tusks means that several animal species are vanished. For providing safety and conservation of forest, wildlife and biodiversity the government has enacted Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act in 2012. Present scenario of […]
Twenty-one years he spent within the walls of Pabna Mental Hospital (PMH), but patient Mahabub Anwar could not go home even though he was well enough to go home. He could not be sent home even after his death. He was admitted to the hospital as a psychiatric patient of 33 years age on October […]
Bangladeshi rice scientists are all set to conduct field tests of the world’s first vitamin A-enriched rice, popularly known as Golden Rice, before taking the variety to production phase. The success in vitamin A-rich rice comes in quick succession of the world’s first three zinc-rich rice varieties that Bangladesh released over the last couple of […]
growing number of seizure of wild animals and birds over the last five years shows that poachers and smugglers are using Bangladesh as a route for wildlife trafficking. The Department of Forest (DoF) and law enforcement agencies recovered 21,506 live wild birds and animals, including tiger and bear cubs, during the period. A variety of […]
A regional human rights group today called for suspension of Rampal plant’s construction in the Sundarbans and urged for an impartial impact assessment. South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) said their probe found the project will leave an “irreparable damage” to the world’s largest mangrove forest. The organisation revealed their findings in a report form […]
To phase out mercury from dentistry in Bangladesh by 2017, Asian Center for Environmental Health observed the “International Week of Mercury free Dentistry from 17th to 25th August, 2015 in Bangladesh. In collaboration with Environment and Social Development Organization- ESDO and World Alliance for Mercury Free Dentistry (WAMFD), Asian Center implemented the week long […]
Dhaka, 16 August 2015: A huge amount of toxic mercury, approximately 58.5 metric ton, was legally and illegally imported in 2014 which was used in producing cosmetics, jewelry, electronics, measuring devices etc, found by a study conducted by Environment and Social Development Organization- ESDO. This finding was disclosed in the national Workshop on “Reduction of […]
and swallowed up annually. About 100,000 mostly poor rural people lose land, crops and even homes each year as a result. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will fund state-of-the-art riverbank protection measures in Bangladesh to prevent land erosion, which is destroying livelihoods and costing the economy an estimated $250 million a year. An ADB multitranche […]
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