Auto manufacturers have shifted their priorities to not only meet emissions standards, but also to keep up with government policies to improve air quality in each country. Fuel efficient cars have not yet caught on in developing markets as fast as they have in Western markets but there is a slow, apparent change of car buyers going green globally. Carmudi analyzed millions of listings on the company’s car classifieds website, and the data shows that auto demand worldwide, including Bangladesh, are shifting towards greener rides.
Carmudi found out that in Bangladesh, gas powered car listings grew more than 75 percent this year compared to 2014. On the Carmudi platform, gas powered cars also make up 21.7 percent of all car listings in Bangladesh, where new fuel standards are set to be ...
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Given all that it has taught him about the world in the last seven months, Rajesh Khandekar’s modest bicycle might as well have wings. Since December last year, this gearless cycle has taken this Thane-based grocery-shop owner to eleven countries across the generous streets of Asia, the empty highways of Australia and the shivering lanes of New Zealand.
On Friday, Khandekar, who left to spread a...
Two monsoon lows are teaming up to bring record rainfall and deadly flooding to parts of southern Asia.
The first monsoon low is spinning over northwestern India while also impacting southeast Pakistan. This strong monsoonal low has already produced record rainfall across the region and additional heavy rain and flooding is expected through at least Thursday.
Rainfall from this low has totaled more than 432 mm (17 inches) since Monday in Bhuj, India. This is more than the normal yearly normal of 373.7 mm (14.72 inches). Rainfall across
Only some 100 tigers currently roam the Sundarbans forests of Bangladesh, a new survey has discovered, indicating far fewer big cats than previously thought in one of their largest global habitats.
The yearlong survey that ended in April was based on footage from hidden cameras and found the true number of tigers to be between 83 and 130, Agence France-Presse reported.
“So plus or minus we have around 106 tigers in our parts of the Sundarbans,” Tapan Kumar Dey, the Bangladesh government’s wildlife conservator, told AFP. “It’s a more accurate figure....
Come before the tourists visit” is the old Bangladesh tourist board slogan that had caught my eye and partially inspired my trip. Two days after arriving in the country, I unexpectedly meet the woman who came up with it. I’m at Wilderness, a resort in the north-eastern region of Sylhet, where the majority of British-Bangladeshis hail. It’s owned by Nazim Choudhury, whose glamorous wife, Geeteara, now runs her own advertising company.
I tell them I’m heading to Cox’s Bazar – the world’s longest beach, on the country’s east coast, and Geeteara says, “That’s where I had the idea for the slogan. Walking on that beach in the 1980s, when no one was around.”
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Scientists in India and Pakistan say higher temperatures were just one factor behind the recent heatwaves and other causes have yet to be established.
They say low air pressure, high humidity and an unusually absent wind played key roles in making the heat unbearable but they do not know why such conditions prevailed at this time of the year.
The temperature forecast for the heatwave peak in Karachi last week was 43C, according to meteorologists in Pakistan.
The prediction was accurate but other factors made the heat feel unbear...
