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GMOs affect food supply in Bangladesh  

Farida Akhter is a tiny woman by American standards. Her hair is streaked with gray and her face etched with lines created by long years of compassion and concern. Akhter lives halfway around the globe in the emerging nation of Bangladesh where she engages rural women in a variety of grassroots movements. The battles she fights are familiar to environmental activists around the world, but in Bangladesh — a nation roughly the physical size of Oklahoma yet with a population of more than 160 million people — the stakes are even higher. Third world, developing nations are prime targets for exploitation by multinational corporations. In addition to abundant natural resources, Bangladesh offers a plentiful, low-cost workforce with few government regulations and minimal enforcement of th...

Comely Comilla in Bangladesh is worth visiting

Our morning flight from Mumbai took us to Agartala, from where a pleasant 70-km ride, through a smooth state highway that snaked around green undulating hills, took us to the border town of Sonamura. While generally friendly, most Indo-Bangladesh border crossings are very crowded and tout-ruled affair. Fortunately, the virtually deserted one at Bibir Bazaar was just the opposite. There were just two officials and two border guards on each side (if I exclude a hyperactive pet monkey outside the Bangladesh immigration office), who ensured clearances within minutes. Another twenty minutes drive brought us to the center of the Comilla town, at three in the afternoon.

BDCyclists’ 3rd anniversary tomorrow    

"3 Years of a Change" with the slogan, BDCyclists, the largest cyclists group in Bangladesh is going to celebrate its 3rd Birthday on May 17, 2014. On this special occasion, BDCyclists is arranging a photography exhibition based on the theme ‘Bicycle and Bangladesh’. The photo exhibition will be held at the Drik Gallery on 15th and 16th May (Thursday and Friday) from 3.00-8.00 p.m. BDCyclists believes that the exhibition will not only promote healthy living but also the hidden beauty of Bangladesh that cyclists are able to discover through their rides in the past few years.  Cultural personality Mr. Aly Zaker was the chief guest of this exhibition program.

Protect migratory birds to ensure healthy ecosystem: Experts

Wildlife experts and environmentalists have stressed the need for protecting migratory birds in the country to ensure a healthy ecosystem. “Migratory birds are a part of our ecosystem and if the birds population declines our ecosystem will be badly affected,” Conservator of Forests Dr Tapan Kumar Dey, said at a discussion marking the World Migratory Bird Day 2014. The Forest Department under the Ministry of Environment and Forests organised the discussion at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city on Sunday, reports UNB. ParijiThe World M...

Sonadia deep seaport a threat to spoon-billed sandpiper

The spoon-billed sandpiper, a critically endangered species of migratory birds, will face extinction losing their habitats if the government establish a deep seaport at the Sonadia Island, as planned, UNB reports. “There are only about 200 pairs of the critically endangered spoon-billed sandpipers around the world right now while about 50 pairs of spoon-billed sandpipers was seen in Sonadia Island last winter,” birds expert of IUCN Bangladesh ABM Sarowar Alam Dipu told UNB. spoon-billedsandpiperHe said this particu...

India admits ‘Delhi as polluted as Beijing’

India’s state air monitoring centre made a rare admission Thursday that pollution in New Delhi was comparable with Beijing, but disputed a WHO finding that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world. A study of 1,600 cities across 91 countries released on Wednesday by the WHO showed Delhi had the world’s highest annual average concentration of small airborne particles known as PM2.5 of 153. delhiThese extremely fine particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter are linked with increased rates of chronic bronchitis, lung canc...
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