About 97% Bangladeshi people use tube well water for drinking purposes. In recent time, this water has been found to contain arsenic concentration above the permissible limit. Arsenic contaminated groundwater has already ...

Bangladesh is a land of natural calamities. Due to locational disadvantage, especially situated at the tip of the funnel shaped Bay of Bengal on the south and at the foot of Himalayas on the north, every year it experiences ...

An extensive deltaic plain of Bangladesh has been formed by the sediments of the Ganges-Brahmaputra (GB) river system that carries an annual suspended load of more than a billion tons into Bangladesh. In spite of the huge ...

Bangladesh is one of the biggest deltas of the world standing on the “Tropic of Cancer”. Various rivers such as the Padma, the Meghna, the Jamuna flow over this country. The north western part of Bangladesh is of distinctive ...

Microfinance, like the breath of the poor, a broader concept and multidimensional aspects of Microcredit, now a days, has become a worldwide recognized, most popular, much favored, most powerful weapon and a latest ...

The present research work is dealt with the study of sedimentology and hydrogeochemistry of the Tista River and its adjoining area, Rangpur division, Bangladesh. Sediments of the Tista River are composed of the sand particles ...

Bangladesh is among the world’s most disaster-prone countries and the frequency of natural disaster has increased in recent years. The coastal morphology of Bangladesh influences the impact of natural hazards on the area. ...

Water logging constitutes the main hazard in the South-West region of Bangladesh. The severity of this hazard turns into a disaster and creates vulnerability due to existence of high population density with poor socio-economic ...