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Fire and Other Health and Safety Incidents in the Bangladesh Garment Sector November 2012-March 2018
Fire and Other Health and Safety Incidents in the Bangladesh Garment Sector November 2012-March 2018 5,178 worker injuries and deaths (3,875 injuries; 1,303 deaths) Safety Factory Incident Incidents Name Location Date Injuries Deaths Cause/Outcome Description 1 Tazreen 252, 253 & 258, 11/24/12 200 112 The fire, presumably caused by a short circuit, started on the ground floor of the nine-story factory, trapping the Fashions Ltd. Monoshontuspur, workers on the floors above. Because of the large amount of fabric and yarn in the factory, the fire was able to Nishenantopur, quickly spread to other floors, complicating the firefighting operations. The fire burned for more than seventeen Ashulia hours before the firefighters were successful in extinguishing it. http://www.shahidulnews.com/bangladesh-textile- factory-fire-leaves-more-than-100-dead 2 Swan Dakkin 11/26/12 0 1 The fire originated from the warehouse of Swan Garments Ltd on the 1st floor of Afnan Plaza at Mollartek around Garments Ltd Khan,Uttara, 9:30am. It was doused around 12:00 noon after hectic efforts by 13 firefighting units. Dhaka Except for the second floor, the blaze could not spread through the building. Some workers sustained minor injuries as they rushed to the main staircase to get out of the building. Bundles of threads and clothes kept in the warehouse were also gutted. 3 Al-Shahriar Palashbari, 11/27/12 0 0 Fire might have originated from an electrical short circuit at the warehouse. Fabrics was burnt. No Injury Fabric Ltd. Ashulia 4 Section Seven Chittagong EPZ 11/28/12 50 0 Power generator of the factory caught fire due to a mechanical glitch. -
Bangladesh, Year 2019: Update on Incidents According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
BANGLADESH, YEAR 2019: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 29 June 2020 Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities National borders: GADM, November 2015b; administrative divisions: GADM, November 2015a; China/India border status: CIA, 2006; geodata of disputed borders: GADM, November 2015b; Natural Earth, undated; incident data: ACLED, 20 June 2020; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 BANGLADESH, YEAR 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 29 JUNE 2020 Contents Conflict incidents by category Number of Number of reported fatalities 1 Number of Number of Category incidents with at incidents fatalities Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality 1 least one fatality Protests 930 1 1 Conflict incidents by category 2 Riots 405 107 122 Development of conflict incidents from 2010 to 2019 2 Violence against civilians 257 184 195 Battles 99 43 63 Methodology 3 Strategic developments 15 0 0 Conflict incidents per province 4 Explosions / Remote 7 2 2 violence Localization of conflict incidents 4 Total 1713 337 383 Disclaimer 6 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 20 June 2020). Development of conflict incidents from 2010 to 2019 This graph is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 20 June 2020). 2 BANGLADESH, YEAR 2019: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 29 JUNE 2020 Methodology GADM. Incidents that could not be located are ignored. -
Bangladesh Jobs Diagnostic.” World Bank, Washington, DC
JOBS SERIES Public Disclosure Authorized Issue No. 9 Public Disclosure Authorized DIAGNOSTIC BANGLADESH Public Disclosure Authorized Main Report Public Disclosure Authorized JOBS DIAGNOSTIC BANGLADESH Thomas Farole, Yoonyoung Cho, Laurent Bossavie, and Reyes Aterido Main Report © 2017 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA. Telephone: 202-473-1000; Internet: www.worldbank.org. Some rights reserved This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the govern- ments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifically reserved. Rights and Permissions This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO license (CC BY 3.0 IGO) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo. Under the Creative Commons Attribution license, you are free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt this work, including for commercial purposes, under the following conditions: Attribution—Please cite the work as follows: Thomas Farole, Yoonyoung Cho, Laurent Bossavie, and Reyes Aterido. -
Bangladesh – Hindus – Awami League – Bengali Language
Refugee Review Tribunal AUSTRALIA RRT RESEARCH RESPONSE Research Response Number: BGD30821 Country: Bangladesh Date: 8 November 2006 Keywords: Bangladesh – Hindus – Awami League – Bengali language This response was prepared by the Country Research Section of the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the RRT within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Questions 1. Are Hindus a minority religion in Bangladesh? 2. How are religious minorities, notably Hindus, treated in Bangladesh? 3. Is the Awami League traditionally supported by the Hindus in Bangladesh? 4. Are Hindu supporters of the Awami League discriminated against and if so, by whom? 5. Are there parts of Bangladesh where Hindus enjoy more safety? 6. Is Bengali the language of Bangladeshis? RESPONSE 1. Are Hindus a minority religion in Bangladesh? Hindus constitute approximately 10 percent of the population in Bangladesh making them a religious minority. Sunni Muslims constitute around 88 percent of the population and Buddhists and Christians make up the remainder of the religious minorities. The Hindu minority in Bangladesh has progressively diminished since partition in 1947 from approximately 25 percent of the population to its current 10 percent (US Department of State 2006, International Religious Freedom Report for 2006 – Bangladesh, 15 September – Attachment 1). 2. How are religious minorities, notably Hindus, treated in Bangladesh? In general, minorities in Bangladesh have been consistently mistreated by the government and Islamist extremists. Specific discrimination against the Hindu minority intensified immediately following the 2001 national elections when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) gained victory with its four-party coalition government, including two Islamic parties. -
Performance of Sweet Pepper Under Protective
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT Volume-3, Issue-1, Dec-Feb 2013/14 ISSN 2091-2854 Received:17 January Revised:11February Accepted:17Feburary INVENTORY OF THREATENED PLANTS OF BANGLADESH AND THEIR CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT M. Harun-ur-Rashid, M. Enamur Rashid and M. Atiqur Rahman* Department of Botany, University of Chittagong Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh *Corresponding author: [email protected] Abstract The study aimed at inventorying of threatened plant species of Bangladesh to determine their status of occurrence for emphasizing the setting-up of national conservation strategies and sustainable management. Complete inventory of two families, the Apocynaceae and Vitaceae, has been made and recognized 28 threatened species facing environmental threats, and need sustainable conservation management. The study was based on long-term field investigation, survey of relevant floristic literature and examination of herbarium specimens. An enumeration of threatened taxa is prepared with updated field data on conservation status to include into Red Data Book of Bangladesh. Key words: Inventory, threatened plant species, conservation, management, Bangladesh. Introduction Global biodiversity is depleting at an alarming rate due to human interferences and environmental degradation, causing high risk of extinction. Human impact on nature has reached at such a high proportion that the world is today witnessing an unprecedented rate of species loss. Many more species are disappearing from the nature before their discovery and determination. The 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants revealed that 12.5% or c.34,000 of the world’s vascular plant species are at risk of extinction, including 7% of family International Journal of Environment ISSN 2091-2854 141 | P a g e Apocynaceae and 5% of Vitaceae (Walter & Gillett, 1998). -
Psychosocial Wellbeing of the LGBTIQ+ Community in Bangladesh
BRAC JPGSPH COVID-19 individuals who live in their own communities criminalizing same-sex activities under the Bangladesh RESEARCH REPORT structured by a well-defined guru-chela12 structure. Penal Code (BPC 377), which carries a maximum Transgender women and men in this research are not sentence of 10 years in prison. part of any guru-chela structure and hence are not part of the hijra community or the profession of hijragiri, The last decade observed several initiatives by LGBTQ and hence do not identify as hijras. 1 participant activist groups, and organizations working in sexual identified as ‘Koti’13 a localized expression for gender and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and law to variant identity which does not find a place within the further the rights of individuals with diverse universal English acronym LGBTIQ+, which shows that sexualities, genders, and sex characteristics. the acronym does not always fully represent the Particularly between the years 2014-2016, several various identities situated in specific geographies. We visible activist works such as printing of a magazine, chose to keep terms/labels that the participants used rainbow rally, a lesbian comic flashcard and queer to describe their identities without imposing other theatre production made it into the public domain. interpretation or any kind of judgement. Such visible forms of activism however came to a sudden halt in 2016, after the brutal killings of queer The Impact of COVID-19 activists Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy by INFORMED CONSENT AND Ansar Al-Islam militants. Having had experienced ETHICS instability, disconnections, relative hiatus, and a real sense of threat for one’s life, LGBTIQ+ activists have on the Psychosocial Wellbeing started to resume organizing in safe and discreet Participants were fully explained the purpose and manner once again. -
Bangladesh Is Located on a Geographic Location That Is Very
P1.86 A CLIMATOLOGICAL STUDY ON THE LANDFALLING TROPICAL CYCLONES OF BANGLADESH Tanveerul Islam and Richard E. Peterson* Wind Science and Engineering Research Center Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 1. INTRODUCTION data and tracks for North Indian Ocean which includes of course the whole Bay of Bengal, the data is not easily Bangladesh lying between 20○34/ N and 26○38/ obtained. It is not clear whether Bangladesh N latitude, and with a 724 km long coast line is highly Meteorological Department has the records of land vulnerable to tropical cyclones and associated storm falling tropical cyclones in the Bangladesh coast, as surge. Bangladesh has experienced two of the most they did not respond to emails and no literature has deadly cyclones of the last century, one was in 1970 been found mentioning them as a source. So, the Joint and the other was some 20 years later in 1991. The Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) at Guam is the only former was the deadliest in the cyclone history with other source that keeps record for that area and gives it death count reached over 300,000. Bangladesh is the free of charge for the users. Using their data and some most densely populated country of the world with a from National Hurricane Center, Fleet Numerical density of 2,200 people per square mile, and most of the Meteorology and Oceanography Detachment (FNMOC) people are very poor. So, it is understandable that a prepared an online version software-Global Tropical large number of people inhabit the coastal areas and Cyclone Climatic Atlas (GTCCA Version 1.0), where all these people are always affected by windstorms and tropical cyclone data and tracks are listed for all the storm surge with lesser resilience due to poverty basins from as early as 1842. -
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Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Bangladesh Meteorological Department (Agro-meteorology Division) Meteorological Complex, Agargaon, Dhaka-1207. Agm-3 (2)/2013/41 Issue date: 02-11-2014 Forecast for the period: 02.11.2014 to 08.11.2014 Spatial distribution of Rainfall Accumulative Rainfall forecast Extended Outlook for accumulative rainfall (Period: 22-10-2014 to 31-10-2014) (Period: 02-11-2014 to 08-11-2014) (Period: 09-11-2014 to 15-11-2014) 27 26 Rangpur Dinajpur 0 0 8 25 Bogra Sylhet 7 Mymensingh 1 0 6 Rajshahi Trace Tangail Srimongal Ishurdi Trace 5 4 1 24 8 Dhaka Chuadanga Faridpur 4 1 Comilla 3 1 Chandpur Jessore Madaripur 3 4 Feni 3 M.Court 23 1 Khulna 1 Satkhira BarisalBhola 7 2 Sitakunda 3Sandwip Rangamati 1 1 2 Hatiya Patuakhali2 1 ChittagongTrace 2 2 0 Khepupara1 5 22 Kutubdia 0 0 Coxs_Bazar4 -1 1 21 Teknaf 0 88 89 90 91 92 93 Highlights: Country average of bright sunshine hour was 6.56 hours per day during the last week. Country average of free water loss during the previous week was averaged 3.20 mm per day. Weather forecast and Advisory for the period of 02.11.2014 to 08.11.2014. Bright sunshine hour is expected to be between 6.0 to 7.0 hours per day during this week. Average of free water loss during the next week is expected to be between 3.00 mm to 3.50 mm per day. • Seasonal low lies over South Bay. • Weather may remain mainly dry southern part of the country during the first half of this period. -
Checklist of the Pteridophytes of Narsingdi District, Bangladesh
Jahangirnagar University J. Biol. Sci. 8(2): 13-24, 2019 (December) Checklist of the pteridophytes of Narsingdi District, Bangladesh Robayda Khanam, Saleh Ahammad Khan and Mohammod Abdur Rahim Plant Systematics and Biodiversity Laboratory, Department of Botany, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh Abstract The occurrence of a total of 31 species of pteridophytes under 20 genera and 13 families in Narsingdi district were confirmed. Pteridaceae with 11 species was found as the largest family, which was followed by Salviniaceae and Polypodiaceae consisted of four species each and Thelypteridaceae with three species. Each of the rest nine families was represented by only one species. Pteris with six species was found as the largest genus, which was followed by Salvinia with three species, and Adiantum, Ceratopteris, Pyrrosia and Cyclosorus with two species each. Each of the rest 14 genera was represented by only one species. Among these species, 21 were found as terrestrial, two as both terrestrial and semiaquatic, four as aquatic and other four as epiphytic. The occurrence of Tectaria chattagrammica Ching, listed as DD (Data Deficient) in Red Data Book of Bangladesh, was common with natural regeneration in this district. Key words: Checklist, Pteridophyte, Narsingdi district, Bangladesh. INTRODUCTION Pteridophytes or the ferns and fern-allies are the most primitive vascular plants in the plant world. They were a major part of the earth’s luxuriant vegetation during the Carboniferous period (The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2012). In the modern era, the pteridophytes are an important component of the flora of any area. They have been used as ornamentals and medicinals (Nayar, 1957; Benerjee & Sen, 1980; Dhiman, 1998; Dixit, 1974 and 1975; Hodge, 1973; Kaushik, 1998; Singh, et al., 1989; Benjamin & Manickam, 2007; Kavitha et al., 2017; Singh & Rajkumar, 2017). -
CIFORB Country Profile – Bangladesh
CIFORB Country Profile – Bangladesh Demographics • Obtained independence from Pakistan (East Pakistan) in 1971 following a nine month civil uprising • Bangladesh is bordered by India and Myanmar. • It is the third most populous Muslim-majority country in the world. • Population: 168,957,745 (July 2015 est.) • Capital: Dhaka, which has a population of over 15 million people. • Bangladesh's government recognises 27 ethnic groups under the 2010 Cultural Institution for Small Anthropological Groups Act. • Bangladesh has eight divisions: Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet (responsible for administrative decisions). • Language: Bangla 98.8% (official, also known as Bengali), other 1.2% (2011 est.). • Religious Demographics: Muslim 89.1% (majority is Sunni Muslim), Hindu 10%, other 0.9% (includes Buddhist, Christian) (2013 est.). • Christians account for approximately 0.3% of the total population, and they are mostly based in urban areas. Roman Catholicism is predominant among the Bengali Christians, while the remaining few are mostly Protestants. • Most of the followers of Buddhism in Bangladesh live in the Chittagong division. • Bengali and ethnic minority Christians live in communities across the country, with relatively high concentrations in Barisal City, Gournadi in Barisal district, Baniarchar in Gopalganj, Monipuripara and Christianpara in Dhaka, Nagori in Gazipur, and Khulna City. • The largest noncitizen population in Bangladesh, the Rohingya, practices Islam. There are approximately 32,000 registered Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, and between 200,000 and 500,000 unregistered Rohingya, practicing Islam in the southeast around Cox’s Bazar. https://www.justice.gov/eoir/file/882896/download) • The Hindu American Foundation has observed: ‘Discrimination towards the Hindu community in Bangladesh is both visible and hidden. -
Leaf Epidermal Anatomy of Cynodon Dactylon (L.) Pers
Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 28(1): 171‒193, 2021 (June) https://doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v28i1.54216 © 2021 Bangladesh Association of Plant Taxonomists LEAF EPIDERMAL ANATOMY OF CYNODON DACTYLON (L.) PERS. IN RELATION TO ECOTYPIC ADAPTATION 1,2 3 1 S.K. NITU , H. TARIQUE AND S.M.S. ISLAM * Plant Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Lab., Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh Keywords: Anatomy; Cynodon dactylon; Leaf epidermis; Stomatal features. Abstract Qualitative and quantitative studies were done on leaf epidermal characteristics with special reference to stomatal features to find out the impact of environmental condition on twenty four accessions of Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. collected from different ecological habitats of Bangladesh. The foliar epidermal peels from both surfaces of mature leaves were observed under microscope. The leaves were found to be amphistomatic and stomata were paracytic type. The epidermal cells in this study were found to be sinuous. Silica bodies were found to be saddle and cross shaped. Prickles angular were pointed at the tip. Macro-hairs were present in all the accessions, but no micro-hair was found both adaxially or abaxially. Stomatal frequency and stomatal index were found to vary from accession to accession on both adaxial and abaxial surface of leaves, and the differences were statistically significant in most of the cases. Introduction Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers is a typical warm season turfgrass belongs to the family of Poaceae and this grass species is widely adapted to various environments of tropical and sub- tropical regions around the world. There are some ways for genetic diversity and population structure analysis of C. -
Quantification of Pesticide Residues in Fresh Vegetables Available
agronomy Article Quantification of Pesticide Residues in Fresh Vegetables Available in Local Markets for Human Consumption and the Associated Health Risks Umme Salma Nisha 1, Md. Sirajul Islam Khan 1,* , Mohammad Dalower Hossain Prodhan 2 , Islam Md Meftaul 1,3,* , Noorjahan Begum 1, Aney Parven 1,3, Syfullah Shahriar 3, Abdul Shukor Juraimi 4 and Md. Abdul Hakim 5 1 Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh; [email protected] (U.S.N.); [email protected] (N.B.); [email protected] (A.P.) 2 Pesticide Research & Environmental Toxicology Section, Entomology Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh; [email protected] 3 Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia; [email protected] 4 Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia; [email protected] 5 Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] (M.S.I.K.); [email protected] (I.M.M.) Abstract: Human health risks as a result of consuming pesticide residues in fresh vegetables have drawn serious attention to the scientific community, particularly in developing countries. This study Citation: Nisha, U.S.; Khan, M.S.I.; analyzed country bean (Lablab purpureus L.) and eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) for widely used Prodhan, M.D.H.; Meftaul, I.M.; neonicotinoid, synthetic pyrethroid, and dithiocarbamate pesticide residues in order to ensure food Begum, N.; Parven, A.; Shahriar, S.; safety.