Category: Environment
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ছাত্ররাজনীতিতে পাশবিকতা নয়, সন্ত্রাসবিরোধী ঐক্য চাই; মডেল জাহাংগীরনগর
সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে ক্যাম্পাসে খুনীদের আনাগোনা বেড়ে গেছে, এরা আবার ছাত্রলীগের ছত্রছায়ায় ও প্রক্টরের মদদে বহাল তবিয়তে আছে। জুবায়ের হত্যা মামলায় পুলিশ ও প্রশাসনের ঢিলেমি, শিক্ষক নিয়োগ আর নানাক্ষেত্রে অনিয়মের বাড়াবাড়ি চলছে। এই অবস্থায় আশা করি জাহাঙ্গীরনগরের বর্তমান শিক্ষার্থীরা আলোচনার মাধ্যমে একটা দীর্ঘমেয়াদী কর্মসূচি নির্ধারন করবে। কেননা বর্তমান রাজনীতি + রাষ্ট্র + সমাজব্যবস্থা দেখে মনে হচ্ছে…
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The 12.12.12.
Nothing mentionable occurred till 4am when I heard several aircrafts flying by while watching TV in this freezing, foggy night. But suspecting something else, I opened the door to corridor and realised it was thunderbolt. Within minutes, rain started in a moderate scale and lasted for half an hour. And after sometime, I heard the…
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Bangladesh’s real estate and housing firms big polluters
Realtors real violators L-R: Filling low-lying wetlands and destroying aquatic life and ecology. Not following the directives related to the surroundings of a site including keeping open space. Photo: STAR (left), writer (right) Published in The Daily Star on November 10, 12 Even though the Department of Environment ‘DoE’ and Rajuk have been penalizing real…
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Top firms polluting much
[slideshow] Pollution in Savar area When the local businesses are growing fast, it’s alarming to witness that many renowned companies have been ignoring environmental rules. These incidents are recently being revealed thanks to the enforcement drives by the Department of Environment (DoE), led by a director, Mohammad Munir Chowdhury. This man must be applauded, though…
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Relocation of industries a must to make Dhaka City liveable
Published in: The Daily Star August 23, 2012 The number of industries in Dhaka is huge, and it is ever-increasing while causing serious pollution to water, air and land of the densely-populated capital. Although there are quite a few designated industrial areas in Dhaka, many industries have been set up in different other areas too, cashing…
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Let’s save the environment, Earth
Left: Denudation of forests goes on unabated. Right: River water remains polluted to the extreme. The Daily Star/Environment August 4, 2012 Amid growing industrialisation and pressure of increasing population, and consequent massive pollution due to gross violation of environmental rules, the government has cut this year the budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Environment and…
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ফুটপাত উচ্ছেদঃ এ এক ঐতিহাসিক সিদ্ধান্ত, তবে সুখের ও আশংকার
আজ সকালে ঢাকায় কি কি ঘটতে পারে তার একটা ধারনাসূলভ ফিরিস্তি দাঁড় করানোর চেষ্টা করিঃ * রাস্তার দুপাশে অনেক ভাঙাচোরা দোকানপাট দেখা যাবে; * ভ্যান-ঠ্যালাগাড়ি বা কাঁধে নিয়ে হকাররা মালামাল সরাবে; * রাজনৈতিক-সামাজিক ও দাতব্য সংগঠনগুলোসহ ফুটপাত দখল করা সবাই তাদের ঘরগুলো সরিয়ে নিবে; * রাস্তাঘাটে-ফুটপাতে রাগী মুডে প্রচুর পুলিশ মোতায়েন থাকবে; * রাস্তায় গাড়ির…
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Business, protection of environment equally important
Ship-breaking: Still considered a hazardous polluter The Daily Star June 30, 2012 It was audacious, but at the same time a logical sequel of irregularities by government officials, to see major business leaders of the steel mills, re-rolling mills, plastic factories and brickfields demanding that they be relieved from being penalized for polluting the environment.…
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Rio+20 roundup, and Bangladesh
Is ‘green economy’ the answer? The Daily Star June 17, 2012 The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) must take decisive action on population and consumption regardless of political taboos or it will struggle to tackle the alarming decline of the global environment. The warning came from the world’s leading scientific academies on Thursday. “The…
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Buriganga must live amid industrial development and urbanisation
Save the lifeline from going deadly and dying L-R: The pitch black water tells the tale of the river’s extreme pollution. Indiscriminate dumping of solid waste not only pollutes the river but desperately shrinks its flow. Probir Kumar Sarker The Daily Star June 9, 2012 Millions of people living and working on the Buriganga and…
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Save Savar from further environmental degradation
L-R: Brickfields in Ashulia burn firewood and emit carbon in the air. Discharge from industrial establishment at Bank Town polluting adjacent waterbody. Click for more photos The daily Star May 26, 2012 Environment Probir Kumar Sarker Over the recent years, Savar is experiencing immense pressure of new industrial, commercial and residential establishments. But most of…
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Trees can save Dhaka from heat and air pollution
(Clockwise) : Congested concrete structures conserve heat to the inconvenience of urban dwellers. The more an urban area is interspersed by greenery the better it is for reducing its heat and air pollution. Treelined streets not only add to serenity but provide cooling effect to urban surrounding. The Daily Star Environment Saturday May 19, 2012…
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Guest birds avert JU sanctuary?
The lakes a year ago and at present. Photos: Monwar Hossain Tuhin/JU teacher & Palash Khan/The Daily Star Published on May 12, 2012 Environment The Daily Star The number of guest birds coming every year to Jahangirnagar University (JU) lakes since the eighties has been falling for the last few years in such a…
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Water pollution still rampant
[slideshow] Published on April 21, 2012 issue in The Daily Star Environment It has been around three years since the High Court ordered industries indiscriminately discharging waste water to install effluent treatment plants (ETPs) within a year. The court on June 10, 2009 also asked the government (industries secretary) to ensure that no new industry…
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সমুদ্রকন্যার সংবর্ধনা, ডাঙ্গার পিপড়ার তাতে কি?
জমিদারি বা এলাহীকান্ড আর কাকে বলে! কথিত সমুদ্র বিজয়কে বিশাল অর্জন বিবেচনায় সরকারি দলের একটি তেলবাজ-সুবিধাবাদী সংগঠন তাদের ‘বিশেষ উদ্দেশ্য পূরণের লক্ষ্যে মূল সংগঠনের তত্ববধানে প্রধানমন্ত্রীকে কাল বঙ্গবন্ধু জাতীয় স্টেডিয়ামে দলীয় গন-সংবর্ধনা (তৈল-মর্দন) দেবে। এই মহান কার্য সম্পাদনের লক্ষ্যে গত কয়েকদিন ধরে প্রিমিয়ার ডিভিশন ফুটবল লীগ আপাতত বন্ধ রাখা হয়েছে। এর স্টেডিয়ামের ১০-কোটি টাকা মূল্যের…
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DEPZ, CEPZ to have Central ETPs working next year
[slideshow] The present condition on the back side of the Dhaka EPZ which was established in 1983. The whole area visible is submerged by dark black water where cropping is absurd, and other environmental and human impacts adverse. Click to read the story in bdnews24.com, published on Sep 4, 2009 Two central effluent treatment plants (ETPs)…
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A Brick Wall in Change
[slideshow] Click to read the story on Star magazine Watching the chimneys at the brickfields on the outskirts of the capital that exhaust mainly black smoke gives a common impression — “it doesn’t matter”. These furnaces have been set up almost every corner of Dhaka – along the highways and the rivers surrounding the mega…
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