Environment

Ethnic Violence in Burma and our Pre-caution

Recent ethnic violence in Burma has spread amongst the different groups over there seriously and it may turn towards the minority Muslims at any time and they may further try to push in Bangladesh border crossing the river ‘NAF’ by boat as they did earlier. No doubt Bangladesh law enforcing agencies has done better to push them back keeping the law and order situation as usual.

The recent tension in Burma should take into the consideration and monitor it sharply through diplomatic channel as well as the different media too in order to update the matter. Different pressure groups and fundamentalists may take the opportunity to make chaos in the mud water inside and outside the country. So, need to increase the vigilance about the issue in advance to avoid any kind of massacre in future. Details…

Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere, caused by due to increasing concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere of the earth. These greenhouse gases are mostly produced as a result of human activity. Global warming has lately become a serious issue, which threatens to disrupt the basic balance of the environment and causes large scale destruction. Details…

Over the last several years I had sought fairly regularly to analyse the Indian moves in regard to Bangladesh’s rightful claims for the equitable and historic shares of waters from the common and trans-boundary rivers. Excepting the 1996 Ganges Treaty, which in my view was one of our rare achievements in obtaining an honestly dealt hand from India, the whole water-sharing talks and exercises till now have been in bad faith,if not in total exploitation by a way more powerful and heartless neighbour. Details…

Sadarpur an upazilla of Faridpur District, which is well known but it seems now nothing but an isolated island due to non-availability of the electricity. I came to know from the inhabitants of the same area that they are facing a lot of problems due to the electricity crisis. They even do not get 5-6 hours electricity in a day by which their day to day life is very miserable now-a-days, which I have been informed by the people of the east Shyampur area. Details…

Satkhira, Bangladesh, January 18, 2012 — Local government officers visited Munshiganj, in the Satkhira district, to learn about climate adapted livelihood generating opportunities which may be suitable for extremely poor people living in the challenging socio-economic flood-prone climate of the south. Details…

Global Warming: Global warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter, disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are getting more frequent. Details…

Though we are expressing less interest in arsenic pollution but gradually the condition is deteriorating throughout Bangladesh. Proper steps should be taken to reduce the malicious threat of arsenic.

Cox’s Bazar is located at a distance of 152km south of Chittagong. It has a total area of 2260qskm. British captain Hiram Cox in 1799 defeated the Burmese king in a battle and set up a bazar (market) here which was named ‘Cox’s Bazar’ after him. Details…

On 31 April Allah gave me another opportunity to visit Mahasthangarh. We reached the majestic ancient site at about 12 noon. Soon we started to walk along the great wall of Mahasthangarh, our version of Great Wall of China. Inside the wall there remain only the age-old ruins with high mounds of what used to be magnificent palaces here and there. Farmers have put the enchanted lands to good use by growing ground pumpkin here and there. However, the area is too vast and gaunt for the visitors to remain interested for long.

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National economies are already seeing the effects of climate on local agriculture natural disasters are on the rise: the universal drive for higher incomes in the face of mounting environmental destruction has heightened the express tension between fact growth and environmental protection. Details…