Although Bangladesh is the worst victim of global climate change, it has huge potentials of taking benefit from trading carbon in the global carbon market, said climate change experts and academics at a seminar here on Saturday.

Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL) has a plan to install 10 lakh solar home systems (SHSs) and set up 10,000 biogas plants this year.

Narayanganj, Dec 28 - Department of Environment (DoE) on
Wednesday fined a paper mill in Rupganj upazila Tk 31 lakh for
polluting Shitalakkha River for the last 11 years

Dhaka, Dec 26 - weather is likely to remain mainly dry with
temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in 24 hours till 6pm
tomorrow (Tuesday).

The United Nations Children's Fund is reporting that more than 1 million children are facing life-threatening malnutrition due to serious food shortages in eight Northern and Western African countries.

Typhoon Washi hit the southern region of Mindanao overnight, blanketing the area with heavy rain and high winds.

The death toll from a fire at a private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata has risen to at least 88.

Authorities say the blaze swept through the AMRI Hospital early Friday in the capital of West Bengal state.

Indian police have attacked protesters observing the 27th anniversary of the world's worst industrial accident.

Police armed with sticks attacked the demonstrators Saturday in Bhopal, where a Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked lethal gas in 1984, killing thousands of people and maiming thousands more.

Thailand battled to protect Bangkok Sunday from being swamped by flood water, while officials in neighboring Burma say floods there have killed at least 100 people.

Rescuers are struggling Sunday to reach communities in northern provinces of the main Philippine island of Luzon, which were hit by two powerful typhoons last week.

Kenyan authorities are in pursuit of suspected pirates blamed for kidnapping a wheelchair-bound French woman from her beach house.

Millions of people along the U.S. East Coast are scrambling to prepare for a powerful hurricane that authorities fear will cause widespread flooding and power outages.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday appealed to al-Shabaab militants in Somalia to give unfettered access to relief workers trying to aid thousands of people threatened by famine. Clinton said a high-level U.S. team will lead a fact-finding mission to neighboring Kenya to review relief efforts.

A volcano in central Indonesia that has been spitting ash, rocks and smoke for a week, unleashed its most powerful eruption yet on Sunday, sending panicked villagers racing back to emergency shelters.

Vulcanologists said the eruption of Mount Lokon on northern Sulawesi island shot ash and debris 3,500 meters into the air. There were no reports of anyone being hurt.

German officials say they will shut down airspace over northern Germany Wednesday, because of the ash cloud from Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano.

Palestinians have announced plans to begin a series of marches and rallies on Friday leading up to Sunday's commemoration of what they call Naqba (catastrophe), the anniversary of the creation of Israel.

A two-year moratorium on the burning of forest lands in Indonesia, that was supposed to start at the beginning of the year, is still on hold. The ban is part of a one billion-dollar deal with Norway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that some scientists say are the primary cause of global warming.

Two women protesting France's new ban on Islamic face veils have been arrested after taking part in a demonstration in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

A powerful 7.1 magnitude aftershock has rocked a large portion of eastern Japan, less than four weeks after an even stronger quake left thousands of people dead and caused a nuclear power disaster, but, this quake seems to have done limited damage.

Rickshaw puller's in Dhaka, make strong strike against traffic rules. They vandalized at-least 100 vehicles within 10 minutes. Traffic Police were seen helpless in front of them.