In Bangladesh, a pollution horror story
Earlier this week, two prominent environmental organizations named their top 10 most polluted places. One of those sites – Hazaribagh in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital – is a place I know well. It’s home to 150 or so leather tanneries densely packed into a residential neighborhood. How did it become one of the most polluted spots on the planet? High international demand for leather shoes and belts from Bangladesh combined with decades of non-enforcement of environment and labor laws.
None of those tanneries have effluent treatment plants. Each day, they discharge 21,000 cubic meters of tannery waste into gutters that flow into Dhaka’s main river. This toxic mix contains chromium, lead, and other chemicals, as well as animal hair and flesh.
Save your bones! Osteoporosis can kill
One woman in every four who fractures a hip never comes out of hospital — she dies there. This is a statistic provided by the UK-based National Osteoporosis Society.
Worse still, the organisation’s report reveals that one in five women has to suffer three fractures before the diagnosis of their brittle bones — not surprising, given that, after hitting menopause, a woman can lose a whopping one-third of her bone in three years.
The latest report from the National Osteoporosis Society emphasises the unnecessary suffering that women are experiencing. It makes painful reading.
The health dangers that each shoe carries
If stilettos harm feet, flat shoes can also be dangerous. Find out how these pretty shoes can be hazardous to health.
Jacqueline Sutera, a doctor of podiatric medicine and surgery, and Neal Blitz, Chief of Foot Surgery and Associate Chairman of Orthopedics at Bronx-LebanonHospital, share the dangers of our favourite shoes, reports a website.
Jacqueline Sutera, a doctor of podiatric medicine and surgery, and Neal Blitz, Chief of Foot Surgery and Associate Chairman of Orthopedics at Bronx-LebanonHospital, share the dangers of our favourite shoes, reports a website.
Running sneakers
Too much cushion is not the best thing. When you have a lot of cushion, you’re not getting the foot-brain feedback that allows you to sense the ground. These shoes...Govt plans to develop 2,000 IT entrepreneurs
The government plans to develop 2,000 freelancers as entrepreneurs within six months by providing them with necessary IT training under Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Programme launched early this month, officials said.
They said the 2,000 freelancers have been selected from the 15,000 already developed freelancers under the Learning and Earning Programme of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, reports BSS.
"As many as 30 freelancers now engaged in outsourcing job from each district would be made entrepreneurs under the programme," ICT Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam Khan said.
Agartala Check Post to be inaugurated on Nov 17
The inauguration of the Integrated Check Post at Agartala along the Akhaura-Agartala part of the India-Bangladesh border will take place on November 17, an official release of the High Commission of India said here today.
Sushil Kumar Shinde, Home Minister of India, Dr. Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, Home Minister of Bangladesh, Shajahan Khan, Shipping Minister of Bangladesh and Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister of Tripura will jointly inaugurate the integrated check post (ICP).
The Agartala ICP houses all regulatory agencies including Immigration, Customs and border security forces, reports BSS.
Women’s participation in economic activities stressed
Speakers at a sewing machine distribution ceremony have stressed for enhanced participation of the womenfolk in economic activities for income generation to ensure women development and empowerment.
They were addressing the ceremony arranged for distribution of 25 sewing machines free of costs among 25 unemployed and distressed women by Goddimari union parishad at its hall room under Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat on Tuesday afternoon.
Authority of the union parishad distributed the sewing machines among the beneficiary women of ward No-9 under assistances of the Local Governance Support Project (LGSP) to assist them attaining self-reliance through income generation activities, reports BSS.
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