March 29, 2024
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  • Air pollution kills 1200 children yearly

    International Desk: Air pollution still causes more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in under 18’s across Europe and increases the risk of chronic disease later in life, the EU environmental agency said yesterday.Despite recent improvements, “the level of key air pollutants in many European countries remain stubbornly above World…

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  • Tk 193.93 cr lootedin name of Covid operations

    Mahfuz Emran: With the connivance of the contractor and the project manager, purchasing the same type of medical supplies at different rates at the same time and entering into contracts with incompetent and inexperienced suppliers, purchasing personal protective equipment (PPE), masks and hand gloves, including illegally not deducting VAT and…

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  • Temperature43 degrees recordedin Ishwardi

    Staff Correspondent: After two weeks of a persistent mild to moderate heatwave in Bangladesh, Pabna’s Ishwardi has recorded a nationwide high of 43 degrees Celsius.Though the temperature has cooled slightly in Dhaka and other areas, it has continued to rise in the Rajshahi Division.The current heatwave is likely to persist…

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  • Road bitumen melting for excess temperature

    Jashore Correspondent: S everal pictures have gone viral on social media Facebook saying that the bitumen of Dharmatala and Palbari Khyertala highways in Jessore city is melting due to excessive temperature.When asked about this on Sunday, Executive Engineer Abul Kalam Azad of Jessore Roads and High Ways Department said, “I…

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  • Children, elderly persons advised to stay indoors

    Staff Correspondent: In view of the current heat wave across the country, experts have advised all, especially children, elderly persons and pregnant women, to refrain from going out of home without urgent need to avoid health risks.Medicine specialist Dr Lelin Chowdhury said that in the intense heat caused by this…

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  • No respite from heatwave in 7 days: BMD

    Staff Correspondent: There seems to be no respite from the sizzling heat as Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) predicted that the prevailing mild to moderate heat wave condition in the country will continue in the next seven days.The BMD issued an alert message in this regard yesterday.The people of the country…

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  • Hot weather may continue for a few more days

    Staff Correspondent: People in different parts of the country are experiencing a sweltering heatwave with the mercury soaring to 37.4 degrees Celsius in Dhaka yesterday.A mild-to-moderate heat spell swept across five of the eight divisions of Bangladesh on Sunday as the day temperature reached 39C in the southwestern district of…

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  • Bangladesh braces fora week of heatwave

    Staff Correspondent: The summer is still five days away according to the Bengali calendar but a mild-to-moderate heatwave is sweeping over Dhaka and most other regions of the country.With no rain forecast, the odds of the mercury dropping are non-existent, the Met Office said.The country’s highest temperature over the past…

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  • Anti-dengue drive tocontinue throughoutyear: LGRD Minister

    Staff Correspondent: Anti-dengue drive will be conducted round the year, said Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam.“We have decided to conduct drive to control dengue till December. The authorities have divided the seasons in two segments-peak season and lean season,” he said while talking to reporters…

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  • 2.3 b people don’t have safe water

    Unsafe water impacts $500 b yearly International Desk: Water is the essential element of life. Yet today nearly 2.3 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. In addition, almost half of the world’s population (3.6 billion) does not have access to safe sanitation.Currently, the water and…

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