Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday said the government will immediately enhance its infrastructure rebuild programmes in the country’s flood-affected areas, including the Sylhet region.
Bangladeshi ferryman Kalu Molla began working on the Buriganga River before the patchwork of slums on its banks gave way to garment factories and before its waters turned pitch black.
The 52-year-old has a constant cough, allergies and skin rashes, and doctors have told him the vile-smelling sludge that has also wiped out marine life in one of Dhaka’s main waterways is to blame.
“Doctors told me to leave this job and leave the river, but how is that possible?” Molla said near his home on the industrial outskirts of the capital, Dhaka. “Ferrying people is my bread and butter.”
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Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is filling up a large waterbody on the eastern side of Hajj camp in Dhaka's Ashkona for a housing project, violating a conservation law.
Department of Environment (DoE) today shut down a brick kiln built a decade ago, in an elephant sanctuary in Fasiakhali union of Chakaria upazila under Cox’s Bazar.