Teesta erosion turns serious: Thousands homeless in Lalmonirhat
August 31, 2010
A devastating erosion by the river Teesta rendered over four thousand people belonging to about one thousand families of seven villages under three upazilas of Lalmonrhat district during the last three days.
The Chondimari spar under Mohishkhocha union of Aditmari upazila is under the threat of Teesta erosion as about 200 meters of its protection dam has already been damaged in the erosion.
Officials of the Water Development Board (WDB), Lalmonirhat said if the Chondimari spar were damaged by the erosion of the Read more
Dinajpur relics in ruins
August 14, 2010
Brick kilns threaten existence of 1,200-yr-old archaeological site
An archaeological site, with around 1,200 years of history, at Nawabganj upazila in Dinajpur lies in ruins due to illegal brick kilns activities and recklessness on the part of locals.
In 2001, villagers first traced a Bouddha Bihar of the site in Domail village.
An excavation team from Jahangirnagar University Archaeology department found another two Bihars in 2006 and 2008 within a 500-metre radius.
Swadhin Sen, an assistant professor of JU who led the excavation, said the site developed Read more
Water scanty to rot jute
August 1, 2010
Good yield of jute this season fails to make farmers happy as they are facing problem to rot and process the natural fibre due to lack of water in absence of adequate rain in the ongoing monsoon.
Encouraged by good price of jute last year, farmers in Tangail grew the cash crop on more areas of land this season, reports our Tangail correspondent.
According to local Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), jute was cultivated on 22,867 hectares of land in 12 upazilas of the district this year while it was cultivated on Read more
Inadequate icing, chemical use cause 12pc fish harvest loss
July 29, 2010
More than 12 per cent of the country’s fish harvest is lost due to ignorance and negligence in management and processing at different stages from the harvest to retail distribution, reports NewAge.
Nearly 25 per cent fish are consumed fresh while only a portion of the 40 per cent fish that require icing are properly processed, according to the findings of a recent survey.
Except hilsa, prawn, shrimp, pomfret and other high valued marine species, ideal icing is not practiced for other fishes causing an average loss of Read more
Fishermen, traders count loss for want of ice
July 29, 2010
Frequent Outages in Patuakhali, Barguna
Fishermen, traders count loss for want of ice
Fishermen and fish traders in the coastal areas of Patuakhali and Barguna districts are facing losses due to storage problem as ice production has greatly reduced following frequent power cuts and low voltages, reports The Daily Star.
Fishermen have to sell fishes including hilsa for almost half the usual prices in local markets as they cannot store it due to lack of ice and cold storage in the area.
Failing to manage sufficient ice, many trawlers waiting at Mohipur fish landing station in Kalapara upazila under Patuakhali district could Read more
Sanctuary birds poached in Bagerhat
July 18, 2010
Two employees of Bagerhat District and Sessions Judge’s Court yesterday poached 11 birds and slaughtered seven of them.
The two employees–Saroj Biswas and Moni Sheikh–caught the young cormorants from the old court area in the morning. When locals surrounded the employees, they told them that they poached the birds at the instruction of a judge.
Locals then informed Sunderbans East Division Forest Officer Mihir Kumar Dey about the matter over cellphone. But the poachers had left the scene before the Read more
Kuakata dyke collapses within two months of construction
July 3, 2010
Tidal surge from the Bay has washed away around 40 metres of the 320-metre-long Kuakata protection embankment only within two months of its construction, much to the worry of local people and tourists, reports The Daily Star.
As the damage caused by cyclone Sidr and Aila left the area vulnerable, WDB constructed the embankment under a Tk 3.87 crore project in Khajura-Majhibari area about one kilometre west from the main point of Kuakata beach to protect the area from Read more
Endless Dharla erosion, unending woes
May 11, 2010
8,000 families homeless in last 15 years
From The Daily Star
Once solvent farmer Hazrat Ali occasionally comes to reminisce on the bank of Dharla River that devoured his 20 bigha of lands during the last five years.
A resident of Mogholhat village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, Ali with his wife, three children and aged mother took shelter on an abandoned railway line when Dharla devoured his last landed property in the first week of January this year.
“By cultivating different crops and raising vegetable and fruit gardens I led a solvent life. But now I work as a day labourer with those who earlier worked in Read more
Two lakh street children grow up without education
May 1, 2010
At least five lakh people, including two lakh street children, do not get any assistance either from the government or from the non-governmental organizations and they grow up without education having no knowledge about their rights in society.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haq told reporters that the number of teenaged criminals are increasing day by day. The street children are involved in anti-social activities like using arms and peddling drugs and snatching in the city streets.
Over 40 million people are living below the poverty line and Read more
Padma river relics still unguarded
March 29, 2010
People on Sunday continued taking away bricks of relics that showed up in the River Padma in Rajshahi as water has receded, witnesses said.
Sources said a fisherman on Thursday saw the top of a building under the water at Chak Rajapur of Bagha when he went fishing there and the top showed up on Friday as water receded.
The relics are said to have been built in the 16th century when Afghan Jagirdar Laskar Khan Pathan, who was Read more
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