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  Engagement for environment

  Farooque Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on October 15, 2020

  ALL conscious citizens know the state of the Bangladesh environment. Bangladesh’s courts of law regularly rule in favour of the environment. Bangladesh media cover the...

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  Misrecognition of women’s roles

  Rumana Hashem | Updated at 12:00am on October 15, 2020

  THE year 2020 has been phenomenal not only for loss of life from COVID-19, economic collapse of capitalist ventures, extreme levels of workers exploitation and...

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  Celebrities found earth squeezing like an orange

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 10:30am on October 11, 2020

  Celebrities from filmmaker Ava DuVernay to Britain’s Prince William to the Pope himself issued powerful calls on Saturday calling for people to mobilise and unify...

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  DoE fines eight tanneries at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate

  United News of Bangladesh . | Updated at 10:38am on October 08, 2020

  The Department of Environment on Wednesday fined eight tanneries at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate Tk 21 lakh for polluting the environment...

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  National environmental writing contest held

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:41pm on October 07, 2020

  Environmental web portal bdenvironment.com initiated a national environmental writing contest to empower the young generation held recently. Kowshik Ahmed, student of environmental science and disaster...

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  14m tonnes of microplastics on sea floor: Australian study

  Agence France-Presse . Sydney | Updated at 10:44am on October 07, 2020

  The world’s sea floor is littered with an estimated 14 million tonnes of microplastics, broken down from the masses of rubbish entering the oceans every...

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  380 whales dead in Australia mass stranding

  Agence France-Presse . Hobart | Updated at 10:43am on September 23, 2020

  At least 380 whales have died in a mass stranding in southern Australia, officials said Wednesday, with rescuers managing to free just a few dozen...

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  CEPZ waste treatment plant fined Tk 14 lakh

  Staff Correspondent . Chattogram | Updated at 01:55am on September 15, 2020

  Department of Environment fined a waste treatment plant of CEPZ Tk 14.76 lakh Monday morning for polluting the environment by releasing untreated liquid waste...

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  Green activists demand pollution-free country

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:42am on September 13, 2020

  Green activists in a webinar on Saturday urged the government to build zero waste community for a pollution free country. They in the webinar organised...

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  Britain rejects new coal mine on environmental grounds

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:43pm on September 09, 2020

  The British government has rejected plans to construct an open-cast coal mine near a picturesque beach in northeastern England, agreeing with campaigners that it would...