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For improving tree cover in the country, SN has planted over 50,000 trees with a survival rate of over 80 per cent. Some of the projects SN is actively involved in include Legislation for Organ Transplantation, Consumer Protection Law, and the Karachi University City Forest Project.
From the hottest year in 2005 to disasters such as the Tsunami and South Asian Earthquake in the last few years, global warming is making its effects felt, claiming a heavy toll on life and livelihood of the people. This Oscar winning movie is considered an 'eye opener' for people from all walks of life. With newly emerging diseases and natural disasters predicted to result in millions of 'environmental refugees,' this movie holds special significance for the development community including medical and allied sciences.
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India offers assistance worth 10mn dollars for disaster-hit Bangladesh
Malaysia Sun
Wednesday 20th June, 2007
(ANI)
By Nazrul Islam
Dhaka, Jun 20 : India has offered Bangladesh relief assistance worth million dollars to overcome the loss of lives and property in the recent rain-triggered disaster in the country's south eastern Chittagong city.
"The (Indian) Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) has offered an immediate assistance of 10 million dollars for relief and rehabilitation of the disaster," Bangladesh's foreign affairs adviser, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, said on Wednesday.
In a letter to Bangladesh's chief adviser to the interim government, Manmohan Singh also expressed deep sadness at the tragic loss of life and destruction of property in Chittagong, said the foreign affairs adviser.
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