JU freshers lodge allegation of midnight ragging at forest
Twelve first-year students of the zoology department of Jahangirnagar University lodged a complaint of physical and verbal harassment by their senior fellows in a reserve forest area on the university campus on Sunday midnight. The victims lodged the complaint with the university’s proctor office on Monday claiming that the ragging session continued from 8:00pm on […]
Three killed in Japan gun, knife attack
A woman and two male police officers were killed in a shooting and stabbing attack at a farm in central Japan on Thursday, media reported. A suspect, believed to be a farmer in his 30s, was holed up inside a building after the incident, which also left a fourth person injured, the reports said. Residents […]
Lanka navy finds 14 bodies in capsized Chinese boat
Sri Lanka’s navy said on Wednesday it had located 14 bodies inside a Chinese fishing boat that had capsized last week with 39 crew on board. The grisly discovery came a day after a preliminary Chinese government probe concluded there were no survivors on the vessel that overturned on May 16. The Lu Peng Yuan […]
Bangladesh, India can cooperate in dev initiatives related to millet: envoy
Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma, addresses the inaugural ceremony of an exhibition on ‘Food Security and Importance of Millets’ at the Indian Cultural Centre in Dhaka, on Sunday. – UNB photo. Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma, has highlighted the important role of millet in ensuring food security, popularizing nutritional diet, promoting […]
65-day ban on netting fish in sea starts today
A 65-day ban on all types of fishing in the sea, including Hilsa, has started today (Saturday). The ban, from May 20 to July 23, aims to protect proper reproduction, production and preservation of marine resources. Deputy chief (marine) of the Department of Fisheries Muhammad Tanvir Hossain Chowdhury said that they had already informed the […]
Dying Padma, Teesta threaten biodiversity in Bangladesh
The arbitrary withdrawal of water upstream across the border by India is slowly but steadily killing Bangladesh’s two major rivers, the Padma and Teesta, which are considered integral parts of the country, according to river experts and researchers. India is pushing Bangladesh into a dangerous situation by the arbitrary withdrawal of these two rivers, the […]
Govt urged to protect fishing community’s rights
Environmental activists on Wednesday urged the government to take initiatives to protect fishing community’s rights at a national dialogue at the National Press Club in the capital. They made the demand at the dialogue on Coastal Hilsa and Fishing Community, organised by the Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon, the Waterkeepers Bangladesh and the Sunderbans and Coast Protection […]
Endangered plant species must be protected
THE threat of extinction for hundreds of plant species indicates a declining biodiversity. A study by the National Herbarium and the forest department reports that 394 plant species are at varying degrees of extinction. The study was conducted over three years from August 2020 and examined 1,000 plants. Researchers said that 69 plant species were […]
394 plant species in Bangladesh face extinction threat
A total of 394 plant species in Bangladesh are facing threat of extinction, a study has found after examining 1,000 plants out of a total 5,000 available in nature. Of the species under ‘Red List’, researchers found five are critically endangered, 127 are endangered and the rest 262 are vulnerable. Bangladesh National Herbarium and the […]
Several lakh evacuated as cyclone Mocha nears
Fishermen shift a boat to a safer place at Teknaf on Saturday. — AFP photo Several lakh people were evacuated in Bangladesh’s south-eastern and southern seaboards as the very severe cyclone Mocha made a deadly approach to the coast, threatening to trigger powerful storm surges, landslides, battering waves and flooding rain during its landfall on […]