St. Martin's is a little island situated on the northeastern side of the Bay of Bengal, around 9 km south from the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf landmass. Ships are the best means to arrive at St. Martin's Island from Teknaf. The inner vehicle for driving inside the island incorporates a non-mechanized van (pulled by man) and a battery-driven auto-cart.
Owing to its scenic beauty it has transformed into one of the most tourist destinations in Bangladesh. Locals, as well as foreigners, crowd this place of interest lasting throughout the year. However, allegations have always been rife as far as maintaining and managing this tourist attraction is a national concern. There are wide allegations against the tourists that they litter the spot by tossing junks hither and thither unpredictab...
The government has set a plan to manufacture biodegradable jute made polythene bags soon under a project with a view to replacing environment-harming plastic polythene bags.
State Minister for Textile and Jute Mirza Azam said this while addressing an inter-ministerial National Committee Meeting on the eve of the “National Jute Day” at Textile and Jute Ministry’s conference room here recently, BSS reports.
“We have a plan to manufacture jute-made polythene bags as these bags will be environment
friendly ....i...
Wildlife killings are not new, but a recent study has taken a deeper view in understanding why people still kill animals. Specifically focusing on the declining population of the Bangladesh tigers, the study highlighted the typologies of tiger killers, shedding a better light to manipulate their behaviors and decrease the killing spree.
Led by Samia Saif of the University of Kent in Canterbury, United Kingdom, the research tried
to explore the reasons behind the Bangladesh tiger killings. Employing a qualitative research ap...
A private firm in Bangladesh is planning to put up a 30 MW solar power plant on Madarer Char, an island formed by sediments brought down from the Himalayas by the Teesta river. A joint venture with a French company, the island is in the Dimla sub-district of Nilphamari district in north-western Bangladesh, about 40 km downstream from the place where the transboundary river Teesta enters Bangladesh from India.
The joint venture company formed for the purpose by Bangladeshi business house Nilsagor Group and the French company Velcan Energy will sell the electricity to the national grid.
While a sediment-formed island – called char – can suffer partial or complete inundation, some
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A potentially giant earthquake may be building up beneath Bangladesh and eastern India and could endanger as many as 140 million people, a study said on Monday.
The earthquake is not imminent but inevitable as sections of the earth’s crust press against one another, according to the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
No estimate on when such a quake may occur is possible without additional research, the
study’s lead author Michael Steckler, a geophysicist at Columbia University in New York, ...
Once, Rajshahi’s sweltering summers were made worse by a familiar problem: windows would have to be shut, not because of the wind or monsoon, but because of the smog, reports the Guardian.
Dust blown up from dry riverbeds, fields and roads, and choking smog from ranks of brick kilns on the edge of town helped to secure the place a spot in the top tier of the world’s most polluted cities, the Guardian said.
Then suddenly Rajshahi hit a turning point so dramatic that it earned a spot in the record books: last year, according to UN data, the town did more than any other worldwide to rid itself of air particles so harmful to human health.
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