Amir Khasru has interviewed Shaikh Siraj, an expert on agriculture on the impact of flood on agriculture as a whole. [Read more]

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Staff ReporterWith further deterioration of flood situation across the country, some 20 million people have been marooned in 32 flood-affected districts, according to the reports received from our correspondents in different districts yesterday. The overall flood situation is gradually taking serious turn as the water levels in all the major rivers have been rising and […]

Landslides kill 110 in Bangladesh by monstersandcritics.com

Chittagong, Bangladesh - The death toll from landslides and flash floods which were touched off by heavy rains reached 110 in the Bangladesh port city of Chittagong on Wednesday as an army-led search and rescue operation went on for the fourth consecutive day, officials said.

Civil defence volunteers dug […]

Bangladesh to welcome UN initiative on climate change by UNB, Dhaka for ittefaq.com

Foreign Advisor Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said Bangladesh would welcome strong UN initiatives on climate change as it placed the highest priority on the subject.

He said this when Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and Special Envoy of UN […]

China plan to divert Brahmaputra may spell doom for Bangladesh by dnaindia.com

DHAKA: China’s plan to construct a dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet will lead to a major ecological disaster for Bangladesh within the next few years, experts and environmentalists have warned.

They fear Bangladesh will turn into a desert in the near future as […]

Bangladesh: Exporting fruits and vegetables by freshplaza.com

Exporting of fruits and vegetables from Bangladesh can prove to be very gainful activities for creating value chains and employment extensively at the grass roots level. Unlike in other-export oriented industries, the retention of value-added earnings from the export of fruits and vegetables can be one hundred percent or […]

Bangladesh mulls atomic energy to meet shortfall by in.today.reuters.com

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh said on Friday it was considering atomic energy as an alternative source to meet the growing shortfall of electricity output in the country.

The power shortfall has soared to 1,500 megawatt (mw), as the state Power Development Board has said the country can […]

World Bank Supports Improving Agricultural Technology System In Bangladesh by Siddique Islam for allheadlinenews.com

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - The World Bank is supporting a government initiative to increase agricultural productivity and farm income by improving the effectiveness of the national agriculture technology system.
The World Bank’s support is in line with the government’s strategy to reduce […]

Bangladesh proposes import of hydro-electricity from Bhutan by M Azizur Rahman for financialexpress-bd.com

Bangladesh has formally made proposals to neighbouring Bhutan and India to import hydroelectricity from the Himalayan country. India has investments in power plants in Bhutan. “I have sent the proposals to the power ministers of both Bhutan and India to get supply […]

Bangladesh: USD 100 Million Loans for Generating Solar Power by Golam Mustofa Sarowar for energybangla.com
The World Bank (WB) is asking the government for reducing the size of environmental degradation to the tolerable extent in order to save annual economic loss of 4 billion US dollars. [Read more]

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