Environment

A resolution on situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar has been adopted at the third committee of the 74th UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Read More »

Danielle Nierenberg The region of Appalachia, which stretches through a dozen states in the eastern U.S., is home to unique agricultural products and food cultures. Food Tank recently joined The Crop Trust in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky to meet the people working hard to preserve the region’s agricultural diversity Read More »

A fire broke out at the Foreign Ministry in city’s Segunbagicha area on Wednesday night. Read More »

Governments spend large public funds on corporations that expand global industrial livestock and feed production. The expansion in factory farms, and loss of smaller, independent producers, is largely responsible for the steady increase in U.S.-based agriculture-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 12 (UNB) – Settlement of various types of services including information and complaint of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will be available from now on by calling the Citizen Service Hotline No. 333. Read More »

Bangladesh’s capital city was ranked fourth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday morning.Dhaka had a score of 195 at 10am, indicating that the air quality was unhealthy.India’s Delhi, Pakistan’s Lahore and Vietnam’s Hanoi occupied the first, second and third spots respectively. Read More »

Six people, including five children, suffered burn injuries as a pick-up caught fire during an Eid-e-Miladunnabi rally at Lalkhan Bazar in the city on Sunday noon. Read More »

The United States has said they are excited to partner with Bangladesh in tackling air pollution sharing their experience and expertise. Read More »

Pham Thi Tra May, 26 years, from Nghen Town, Ha Tinh, Vietnam. Tra May was one of 39 people being smuggled into Britain in a refrigerated lorry by criminal gangs who thrive on migrants seeking better lives in places away from their home countries. All 39 were found dead in Essex on 23 October 2019. Read More »

Ninety six more Bangladeshi workers were deported from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night.A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV804 carrying the deportees landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 11:20pm. Read More »

By Dr Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh It is difficult to win a debate on ethics when you are pitted against a crowd of tech-acolytes. I was taking the position that a more vital consideration in developing cities are ethical ones rather than the smartness of the technology utilised in the infrastructure and running of facilities or services in cities. The ... Read More »

Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore has sought immediate action in South Asia to clean the air for children saying around 620 million children in the region breathe polluted, toxic air. Read More »

The Malaysian government has agreed to reopen the country’s labour market for Bangladeshis ‘at the earliest time possible’. The process of recruiting labourers from Bangladesh may follow a joint working group meeting on November 24-25 in Dhaka. Read More »

Bangladesh is going to face a great environmental disaster due to the government’s move to set up 29 coal-fired power plants across the country in the next few years, feared a number of organisations on Wednesday. Read More »

Bangladesh’s capital was ranked third worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday morning.Dhaka had a score of 177 at 8:34 am, which means the city’s air quality was classified as unhealthy. Read More »

A five-member probe body was formed to investigate the fire incident at state-owned Star Jute Mill in Chandani Mahal area in Dighalia upazila on Monday night. Read More »

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked fourth worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Tuesday morning.Dhaka had a score of 169 at 9:11 am, which means the city’s air quality was classified as unhealthy. Read More »

Delhi’s sky line is seen enveloped in smog and dust in New Delhi Authorities in New Delhi are restricting private vehicles from the roads on alternating days to control vehicular pollution as people in the national capital continues to gasp under toxic smog. Read More »

November 04 – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Sunday headed to Washington for U.S.-brokered talks over the controversial dam constructed by Ethiopia on their shared Nile River, Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 4 – Asean leaders have reiterated the need to find a comprehensive and durable solution to Rohingya crisis addressing the root causes of the conflict in Rakhine State. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 04 – Bangladesh’s capital was ranked fourth-worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday morning. The city’s air was classified as unhealthy at 9:50 am as it had a score of 169. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 3 – Election Commission (EC) is taking preparation to hold the elections to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in January next year. Read More »

Another indigenous leader was gravely wounded in the ambush and a logger is reportedly missing Maranhão state, Brazil – Earlier Saturday, members of the Guajajara people’s Forest Guardians, a volunteer land and environmental monitoring force, were ambushed by a group of illegal loggers in the Araribóia indigenous territory, leaving one Guardian dead and another gravely wounded. Read More »

Amid a crackdown on undocumented workers in Saudi Arabia, 75 more Bangladeshi workers returned home on Friday night. Read More »

Tripoli, Nov 1 (Xinhua/UNB) — The Libyan navy announced Thursday the rescue of 200 illegal immigrants, including women and children, off the country’s western coast. Read More »

Bangladesh top-order batsman Liton Das was seen wearing a mask during the practice session of touring Bangladesh national cricket team at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Thursday. Read More »

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all to commit and embrace innovations to ensure a better life for future generations and chart a path towards sustainable, inclusive urban development that benefits all. Read More »

Instead of taking back Rohingyas, Myanmar now remains engaged in “persistent campaign” to mislead the international community to avoid its obligations for the “sustained repatriation” and reintegration of the forcibly displaced Rohingya in safety and dignity, says Bangladesh. Read More »

By Achim Steiner UN, Oct 28 2019 (IPS) – Last week, a too-familiar human tragedy captured news headlines. 39 people were found dead inside a shipping container on an industrial estate in Essex in Southeast England; 31 men and 8 women whose individual identities, for now, remain anonymous, as authorities begin to investigate one of Europe’s worst people-trafficking cases. Read More »

New Delhi, Oct 28 (Xinhua/UNB) — The air quality in the Indian capital plummeted to “severe” category on Monday morning, post the festival of lights “Deepawali” when people indulged in bursting firecrackers. Read More »