It is safer to consume curd, skimmed milk and lassi than full-cream milk, butter and ghee as the level of pesticide contamination is higher in the latter category of edibles. Presently India consumes
The recklesss use of illegal pesticides is posing a major health risk to people in rural Bangladesh, according a study released on Sunday 7 June. The National Minor Irrigation Development Project,
Waters from three river basins of Ganga, Brahmaputra and Jamuna is one of the major reasons of flooding in Bangladesh, a water expert Prof M Shahjahan said. He said 93 per cent rain and flood waters
The biggest ever deal for generating power in Bangladesh in the private sector was signed between Power Development Board (PDB) and an American company AES Corporation. As per the agreement, AES
When wells made clean drinking water available in every village in Bangladesh, the feat was greeted as a major public health victory. But in a bizzare turn of events, Bangldesh's tubewells have been
In spite of rising living standards worldwide, more than 1bn people cannot meet their most basic needs, according to a United Nations report published. Its ninth annual Human Development Report,
Ministers and top officials from nearly 100 countries meet in Rotterdam to sign an international trety that will ban the import of hazardous chemicals unless agreed by the importing country. The
More than 90 per cent of the billions of dollars in subsidies granted to the world's fishing fleets are likely to be in violation of global trade rules, according to a report released by the World
Engineers at Siemens Roke Manor Research laboratories in Hampshire have devised a system that it hopes will allow the UK's National Air Traffic Services Organisation (Nats) to increase the accuracy
A group of students at R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore have developed a proof-of-concept system to demonstrate that magnetic forces can be used to move a slide in machine
