ক্যাটাগরি Environment
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১০ বছর আগের সিএনজি ভাড়ার চার্ট কার্যকরের আদেশ কতোটা যৌক্তিক?
আজব এক দেশ বাংলাদেশ। ২০০৯ সালে ক্ষমতায় এসে আওয়ামী লীগ সরকার আগের আমলের মতোই অনিয়ম ও দুর্নীতিকে উৎসাহিত করেছিল। চালকদের মাস্তানির কারনে মিটারে ভাড়া নির্ধারণ করা বন্ধ আছে বহু বছর ধরে। মিটার অনুসরণ করা নিয়ে ট্রাফিক পুলিশ নামকাওয়াস্তে মনিটরিং করলেও চালকরা তা মানতে নারজ হওয়ায় যাত্রীদের হয়রানি কমার পরিবর্তে শুধুই বেড়েছে। সিএনিজির দাম বাড়ানোর সাথে…
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The endangered Asian Elephants
According to IUCN SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) reported in August 2021, there are now only about 48,000-50,000 Asian Elephants found in 13 range states. More than 60% of the wild population exists in India alone. Only four other countries – Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka – have more than 2,000 wild elephants.…
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SWATCH OF NO GROUND: Bangladesh’s mysterious submarine canyon
Formed over 125,000 years ago from the Ganges River systemHome to Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, Bryde’s whalesAdventurous tourists want easy access to the site This feature was published in Dhaka Tribune on February 24, 2024. In 2021, the people were surprised as to whether there were whales in the Bay of Bengal as they discovered a…
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Sundarbans Oil Spill: Is Bangladesh capable of facing disasters?
Now Dolphins started dying after the Sundarbans oil spill. Fishes, birds, crabs are already dying. Next are the deer and tigers, and what not! However, it’s no big deal for this government and the administration of 2014 Bangladesh! Its minister says the oil spill will not harm the forest much! They are building two 1320MW coal-run power plants – despite knowing…
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Phulbari will resist Asia Energy, Awami League
In just another aggressive effort of the Awami League government and the GCM Plc (Asia Energy), its CEO Gary Lye visited Phulbari in Dinajpur Wednesday noon. He was for the second time in two years obstructed by the conscious locals who have been opposing an open-pit coal mining project of the US and UK-based firm…
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Legalise cattle smuggling from India
Just before his retirement, the then BSF chief UK Bansal in November 2012 had made some observations about the Indian Border Security Force’s policies, and gave solution to the unabated killings and torture of Bangladeshi people along the border, especially of the large number of so-called cattle smugglers. The most important thing he said rationally…
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Bangladesh to install maritime safety, navigation tools
The government has finally begun implementation of a decade-old plan to install seven coastal radio communication stations equipped with high-end lanterns, by replacing the three existing old lighthouses, with a view to ensure safety and security of people and vessels in the sea. The introduction of Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) and Integrated…
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Coal: Why is India so shameless?
India has a lot of coal underneath the ground, and so, it started to exploit the resource a bit early and has been doing it abruptly to meet the rising electricity demand of the industries and households. The consequence is not pleasant, though the power generation capacity has reached rocket-high, because now the next-door neighbour has…
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IPCC issues fresh warning over changing climate
The second instalment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, released in Yokohama yesterday, has warned that climate change is already negatively affecting every continent and the oceans. As climate change worsens, it will make people poorer, hungrier, and more ill as they contend with more extreme flooding, heat waves, and…
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ভাগ্যিস প্রকৃতি কথা বলতে পারে না!
শিক্ষিত সচেতন শহুরে থেকে শুরু করে বস্তি বা গ্রামের হতদরিদ্র মানুষ পরিবেশ রক্ষার বিষয়ে এতটাই খেয়ালি যে দেশের রক্ষক যখন পরিবেশের নানা আবশ্যকীয় উপাদান ক্রমশ ধ্বংস করে তখনও তারা নির্বাক থাকে। নদী, খাল, বিল, বন, কৃষিজমি ভক্ষণ করছে যারা তাদেরকে সবধরণের সহায়তা দিতে ব্যবসাবান্ধব সরকারগুলো হুড়মুড়িয়ে পড়ে। রাজনৈতিক এইসব সরকার দেশের সাংবিধানিক কর্মকর্তা ও কর্মচারীদের…
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Updated stories on COP19 from Warsaw
Day 1 Concrete decisions expected at COP19 in Warsaw The 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) on climate change began on Monday in Warsaw, Poland with a hope to decide on how to support the nations vulnerable to climate change impacts before it was too late. Also considered as the finance COP, the Warsaw meet is…
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High Court may act now for Rampal
The High Court on Tuesday will hear for the second day a public interest litigation four lawyers have filed against a massive coal-run power plant in Bangladesh coastal district Bagerhat and construction of an anchorage for unloading coal in the reserve forest area. The plant site has 1834 acres on the bank of a river…
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Callousness over Rampal power plant, and cruelty
They started work on awarding India a job of building and operating coal power plants back in early 2010 – soon after the prime minister signed a 55-point joint communique with Manmohan Singh including the one involving power sector cooperation. No protests were there about the agreements until early 2011 when the PDB held a…
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Write your opinion on National Environment Policy 2013 online
The draft National Environment Policy 2013 is still open for online review. The environment and forest ministry has prepared the proposal and will allow public opinion for several more days. The document is accessible on the website of Department of Environment (DoE). DOWNLOAD FROM HERE!!! Read it and give your valuable opinion. After gathering and analysing…
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DoE defends approval of EIA for Sundarbans coal plant
The Department of Environment (DoE) gave the EIA green signal after eight revisions and imposing a number of conditions to protect the World Heritage Site, declared by the Unesco, and river Pashur which is a sweet-water dolphin sanctuary. The final environmental clearance for the project would be given after implementation of the project “only if…
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Is Bangladesh on the right path centring environment?
The government is moving ahead with its priority on the climate change issues. Though climate change is a slow process, we’ve already been experiencing the impacts. The efforts taken now for adaptation and mitigation would be better for the country in the future only if those are executed properly. Bangladesh in the last couple of…
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Tanneries in Dhaka: No more menace please!
Probir K Sarker & Abu Bakar Siddique Published in Dhaka Tribune on June 5; bottom has latest development When tanneries were initially allowed to operate in the Hazaribagh area, at the western part of the capital, close to Turag river, no planning had taken place. Now, the number of tanneries exceed 200, over the last six decades,…
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Nuclear power plants: Bangladesh and global
Bangladesh plans to produce 2000MW of electricity by 2023 and another 4000MW by 2030; the plan for setting up the country’s first-ever nuclear power plant was initiated in 1961; The estimated cost of the proposed plant at Rooppur in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district is set $1.5-2bn; The first phase (1000MW) of the project will…
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ইটের ভাটা মালিকেরা কি এতই শক্তিশালী!
নগরায়ন ও শিল্পায়নের দ্রুত বিকাশের কারনে নির্মান উপকরনের মধ্যে ইটের ব্যবহার দিন দিন বাড়ছে পাল্লা দিয়ে। তাই ইটের ভাটাগুলোর বিশ্রাম নেই, খুব বৃষ্টি না হলে মালিকরা চুলা বন্ধ করেনা। আর তদারকী কর্তৃপক্ষেরও নিষেধ নেই, উন্নয়ন বলে কথা। হুম, উন্নয়ন কে না চায়! কিন্তু কিসের বিনিময়ে সেই উন্নয়ন (!) অর্জিত হচ্ছে এবং সেই অর্জনের ভাগীদার কে…
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শ্রমিকের অধিকারঃ আন্দোলন বনাম দালালী
শ্রমিকশ্রেনীর জন্য কি করেছে আনু মুহাম্মদ-টাইপ নেতারা? এরা তো বাল-ছাল, খালি পারে ভাষন দিতে। এই টাইপ একটা প্রশ্ন ছিল একজন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় শিক্ষার্থীর। আমার এই পরিচিত বালকটি যেটা মুখ ফস্কে বলতে পারেনি তা হলো, ‘একটা শ্রমিককে তো চাকরী দিতে পারলো না’… যার টাকা আছে, সে টাকা বানাতে সেটা খাটাবে, তার দরকার শ্রমিক আর সেই গরীব-অর্ধশিক্ষিত-চাষাদের ঠিকভাবে কাজে…
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Who are to blame for the Savar factory ‘killings’?
The municipal mayor of Savar has been suspended over charges of abuse of power, inefficiency and negligence in approving the design and lay-out plans of the building that housed markets, bank showroom, and five garment factories with thousand machines and heavy generators. Further measures would be taken against him if the allegations are proved. The…
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Tree-felling needs to be controlled
Deforestation has become a grave concern these days for the Bangladesh environmentalists who are monitoring the trend and also the rate of change in climate and at the same time, its adverse impacts. Even though there are laws, the smugglers with the help of influential individuals and forest officials have been robbing the forests in…
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Who is to stop these polluters?
Highly polluting brickfields are still operating unabated across the country including on the outskirts of Dhaka posing serious health risks in this dry season, harming the nature and damaging arable land. Most of these conventional chimneys are baking bricks round the clock burning wood, tyres and low-quality coal. Replacing the chimneys with improved modern ones…
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Smart Export Garment Ltd, BGMEA, GOVT are you ‘smart’?
You’ve set up the export-oriented factory on the first floor of a two-storey building in the congested Beribandh area of Mohammadpur with garages and a backery on the ground floor, you’ve given narrow space for movement, you don’t have any fire fighting equipment at the workplace, you don’t have efficient security guards and officials who…
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New booster in Russia-Bangladesh relations?
The Russian experts claim that the third generation technology has the capacity to stay fine in earthquake, tsunami and wartime. MoU done for a pre-feasibility study over the 2000MW Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. Well, this project is underway in Pabna, revived a couple of years ago, initiated in 1967. The Russian govt will give $500…
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Objection! Punish the housing and real estate demons Ashiyan & Bashundhara!
Realtors have warned Rajuk not to interfere in its ongoing fair in Dhaka, means there could be some unauthorised plots/apartments sold in the fair like the previous days. I was very disappointed to read the story in Wednesday morning. Last year, the High Court declared 77 such schemes “illegal” and some of those are very…
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