Day: November 2, 2024

City Desk : Environmental, Forest and Climate Change, and Water Resources Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Friday said canals and rivers are national assets and no one has the right to grab and pollute those. She said a canal cleaning campaign is being implemented in all 64 districts as part of the ongoing effort to make the country’s waterways free from pollution, reports BSS. “Although the campaign will officially run till November 15, efforts to keep these waterways clean will...

City desk : LGRD and Cooperatives Adviser Hasan Arif on Friday said that the present interim government was working to make a discrimination free society as the martyred students and people had struggled to this end. The government has already started reform works to make a society free from all sorts of discrimination, he said while taking part at a discussion organized by Mahanagar Sarbajanin Puja Committee and Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad in the city’s Dhakeshwari National Temple, reports BSS....

City Desk : The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in association with the Department of Environment (DoE) on Friday conducted a drive in the city to prevent the use of banned polythene shopping bags. A team inspected Mohammadpur Agricultural Market and several nearby supermarkets in the capital, a ministry press release said, reports BSS. During the drive, members of the monitoring committee urged shop owners to use jute and cloth bags instead of polythene. Vendors were instructed to...

City Desk : Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked the fifth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 181 at 8:50am on Friday. Friday’s air was classified as ‘unhealthy’ and it continued for the past few days posing a health threat, according to the AQI index, reports UNB. When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 50 and 100, air quality is considered ‘moderate’, usually sensitive individuals should...

City Desk : Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Friday said the young generation will lead Bangladesh in all aspects. “Young people have shown Bangladesh a new way . . . they will lead Bangladesh in all aspects,” he said, reports BSS. Nahid Islam, also Adviser of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, made the remarks while addressing a function organized to mark the National Youth Day-2024 at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium as special guest, said...