Bangladesh lifts ban on visiting tourists
World Tourism Day today
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The government is set to withdraw embargo on the visit of foreign tourists to Bangladesh as the National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 on Monday recommended doing so if the tourists can show their ‘full vaccine certificates’ on arrival.
Civil aviation and tourism state minister Md Mahbub Ali said this at a press conference organised by the ministry at Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation in Agargaon of the capital ahead of the World Tourism Day today.
UNICEF Bangladesh Ambassador Mim visits children affected by the floods
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UNICEF National Ambassador for Bangladesh Bidya Sinha Mim is visiting Sylhet this week to meet children whose lives have been upended by floods that ravaged northeastern Bangladesh in May and June this year, according to a press release Thursday.
The widespread flooding affected the lives of 7.2 million people, including 3.5 million children, and caused a food, water and sanitation crisis. Families have been forced to abandon their belongings and seek shelter as hundreds of schools and medical facilities have been destroyed.
DNCC to trial school bus service to reduce traffic congestion
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English-medium students from four schools will initially receive the service
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will pilot a student bus service for four English-language schools in its jurisdiction to reduce congestion in the city, DNCC Mayor Md Atiqul Islam said. We are seeing parents using their private cars to take their children to school, increasing the number of vehicles on the streets.
Red zones are closed to street vendors
Another effort by DSCC to make footpaths free
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After repeated failures to stop street vendors from taking over capital city streets, Dhaka South City Corporation will implement a new system to ease traffic congestion. DSCC will classify city streets into three categories - red, yellow and green.
Red zones are completely taboo for hawkers. However, they can set up their stalls along sidewalks and streets in yellow and green zones on conditions, depending on the time and day of the week.
Countrywide heavy rains until 13 Sep
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The current heavy rains brought on by the depression at the Bay of Bengal are predicted to last until Tuesday, according to the weather forecast service.
The low will weaken in next 24 hours and move towards the plain land through Odisha and towards Chhatishgarh through West Bengal afterwards.
Mostafa Kamal Palash, a weather and climate researcher at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, gave this information after reviewing various models of weather forecasting.
120 hills disappeared from Chattogram in 4 decades
An environmental group called Bangladesh Environment Forum alleged Sunday that 120 hills had vanished from Chattogram city in the past forty years.
The port city's hills decreased from 32.37 square kilometers in 1976 to 14.02 square kilometers in 2008, according to a written statement from the forum's general secretary, Aliur Rahman. He was addressing during a press conference held at the Chattogram Press Club.
Climate loss and damage are clearly visible in southwest Bangladesh
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Ashish Barua, Sawkat Chowdhury
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) by Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows that the sea level, over the last 120 years, has increased by 0.20 metres, and continues rising fast, caused by thermal expansion, glacier ice loss, ice sheet loss, etc. The sea level rise in Bangladesh estimated using gauge data shows varying in different parts of the coastal zone, while the coastal areas along the Sundarbans are highly vulnerable.
How can Dhaka solve its traffic problem?
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Debra Efroymson
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that "traffic was particularly bad today," I could have retired already.
Over the years, people have hazarded various suggestions as to the cause of the terrible Dhaka traffic and its potential solutions. Causes include: not enough roads for all the cars; poor traffic management or a lack of operational signals; lack of lanes; an insufficient number of buses, including school buses; too many rickshaws; and the "disorderly" movement of pedestrians. Each cause suggests its own solution: build more roads/flyovers/elevated expressways;