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IMPENDING DANGER

Bt brinjal controversy hots up in Bangladesh

Bt Brinjal farmers divided between green activists opposing GM crops and government which claims the crop experiment was fairly suiccessful

Growth thirsty

Groundwater level is plunging in Dhaka. Experts call for making rainwater harvesting mandatory

Brick kilns major source of air pollution in South Asia

Contribute 10% to the total air pollution in south Delhi, 11% in Patna, 30% in Dhaka

Teesta deal likely

India and Bangladesh to sign an interim treaty for 15 years

Dhaka's groundwater level at the lowest in 11 yrs

Zooming in

A photographer tries to educate Delhi about how important is the Western Ghats to India

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Kolkata among world's most flood-prone coastal cities: study

Its growing population and exposure to storms make it vulnerable

Bangladesh courts to the rescue of wetlands

Apex court order to leading real estate developer to restore wetland reclaimed for township sets a precedent; order awaited in another case

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Arsenic attack on Chittagong

People in the port city depend on arsenic-contaminated groundwater in absence of safe water supply

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South Asia

Buriganga chokes on pollutants

Political will and community participation is needed to revive the dying river that gave life to Dhaka

Environmental fallout of cooperation

Whether energy cooperation will benefit the environment or create problems in South Asia depends largely on whether hydropower is considered …