Shelter Solution to address disaster risk
A workshop on Shelter Solution has exchanged views, expertise and experiences among the stakeholders to find out appropriate technologies and cost effective solutions to construct households, and install water and sanitation system in a disaster resilient and sustainable manner in country’s disaster prone areas.
It also emphasized on the collective efforts to step forward the technical suitability and quality of the shelter responses to the natural calamities.
In addition, review findings based on field visit to some disaster prone areas of Bangladesh and current p practices was also shared at the workshop.
‘Floating Farms’ overcome monsoon rains
During the monsoon rains in northwest Bangladesh, swollen rivers can flood villages for months at a time. For the rural poor who rely on agriculture, there is no way to make money. But now some people are building small floating farms, where they grow vegetables and raise animals, right on top of the floodwaters.
Dozens of ducks quack as Hafiza Khatun gathers eggs in an unusual coop that floats on water.
It sits on top of a bamboo platform and empty oil drums and is moored to a riverbank near the village of Charbh...
Dozens of ducks quack as Hafiza Khatun gathers eggs in an unusual coop that floats on water.
It sits on top of a bamboo platform and empty oil drums and is moored to a riverbank near the village of Charbh...
Nisha Biswal to attend SAARC Summit, visit Dhaka
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal will travel to New Delhi, India for internal consultations and bilateral meetings. She will then travel to Kathmandu, Nepal where she will represent the United States as an observer state at the 18th Annual South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit.
The summit will focus on deepening regional economic connectivity and expanding South Asia’s role in the global economy. While in Kathmandu, she will meet with Nepali political lea...
The summit will focus on deepening regional economic connectivity and expanding South Asia’s role in the global economy. While in Kathmandu, she will meet with Nepali political lea...
Building future with bricks of knowledge
Education has always been the backbone for a nation and teachers are considered as our nation builders. Ever since mankind discovered light at the end of the tunnel, science has added enhancements to reach there. Through education, students gain knowledge, skills, and values to address the environmental and social challenges of the coming decades.
Teachers are main contributors of education as they pass on knowledge and values in every generation as they play crucial roles in developing and touching one’s life. Systems of schooling involve instit...
Teachers are main contributors of education as they pass on knowledge and values in every generation as they play crucial roles in developing and touching one’s life. Systems of schooling involve instit...
Officers charged with Bangladeshi detainee’s murder
Two Perlis Immigration officers were tentatively charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with murdering a Bangladeshi detainee on Oct 29.
Mohd Aminnudin Mohd Yasin, 32, and Zuhairul Effendy Zualkafli, 32, allegedly killed Abu Bakar Siddiqe, 45, in the pantry at Level 2 of the Immigration premises at Kompleks KDN here, between 10pm and 11pm.
The charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code, read with Section 34, carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.
Magistrate Nik Mohd Tarm...
Mohd Aminnudin Mohd Yasin, 32, and Zuhairul Effendy Zualkafli, 32, allegedly killed Abu Bakar Siddiqe, 45, in the pantry at Level 2 of the Immigration premises at Kompleks KDN here, between 10pm and 11pm.
The charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code, read with Section 34, carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.
Magistrate Nik Mohd Tarm...
Political Islam in Bangladeshi democracy
Recently Bangladesh was side-tracked from an electoral democracy. Earlier this year, the ruling party Awami League formed government after a one-sided election. Bangladesh’s major opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), boycotted the election on the grounds that it was not taking place under a neutral caretaker government and that elections held under partisan caretaker governments would not be fair.
Since the early 1990s Bangladeshi political parties had agreed to hold national elections under non-partisan, neutral caretaker governments after the collapse of the Ershad regime and the coming of multiparty democracy. The 2014 election marked a sharp break with this tradition.
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