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Heat costs Bangladesh up to $1.78b in 2024: WB

Bangladesh lost 25 million workdays to extreme heat in 2024, causing an estimated economic loss of up to $1.78 billion, or 0.3–0.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, a World Bank study released in Dhaka on Tuesday said.

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Rajshahi winters warming fast amid vanishing green, blue spaces

Rajshahi city’s winter land-surface temperature has witnessed a sharp and spatially concentrated rise over the past three decades, raising renewed concerns about urban planning, thermal comfort and long-term liveability in the divisional city, according to a geospatial study...

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Locals protest at rice mill pollution in Raiganj

Local people of an area in Raiganj upazila in Sirajganj district on Wednesday protested at the operation of an auto rice mill, saying that its smoke and wastes were polluting the environment and farmland...