Lightning claims eight lives in North Coastal Andhra
Source: The Hindu
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-14 02:59:51 -0700 | green-news
The freak rains and strong gusty winds were caused by a peripheral effect of Mahasen that lurked in the Bay of Bengal for the third consecutive day on Monday; the cyclonic storm will weaken into a deep depression on May...
Bangladesh toll climbs to 1,127
Source: CNN
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-13 04:26:24 -0700 | green-news
As of Monday, 1,127 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage where a nine-story building once stood. The army-led recovery operation is winding down, and authorities are expecting to officially end recovery efforts by Tuesday, Bangladeshi Army Capt...Authorities decided to...
Calamity planning - Bangladesh role-plays quake response
Source: IRIN
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-07 03:03:15 -0700 | green-news
We can't have people just showing up with a shovel, said Pete DeFelice, a disaster response exercise designer for the US Pacific Command (US armed forces stationed in Hawaii to promote regional security and disaster response in the Asia-Pacific), which...
Bangladesh building collapse toll rises to 450
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-02 23:54:11 -0700 | green-news
The official number of missing was still at 149, though unofficial estimates are higher. Bangladesh More bodies were found overnight in a collapsed building in Bangladesh , raising the toll to 450 as workers carefully used cranes Friday to remove...
Meteorology Brought To You From Asia -- 4/30/13
Posted by: Adrian Holman
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-04-29 17:29:13 -0700 | green-news
Tuesday 30 April 2013 (Degrees are in Celsius for this Asian continental weather forecast for the last day of April 2013.) Baghdad, Iraq: Becoming cloudy and warm with a shower late. 99/69. Kuwait City, Kuwait: Partly Cloudy. 91/74. Kabul, Afghanistan:...
Death toll nears 300 in Bangladesh building collapse
Source: CNN
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-04-26 05:38:02 -0700 | green-news
Rescuers help an injured garment worker to escape from the Rana Plaza building on the outskirts of Dhaka on April 24...Work was proceeding slowly to avoid causing further collapse, an official said. Rescue workers search for trapped garment workers in...
Developing nations put climate change at heart of plans
Source: NewKerala
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-04-25 06:51:59 -0700 | green-news
The group developed its plans at the 7th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change, which ended on Wednesday in Dhaka, Bangladesh...The network exists to enable policymakers in countries at risk from climate change to share information and collaborate...
70 killed in Dhaka building collapse
Source: CNN
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-04-24 02:49:55 -0700 | green-news
Authorities fear more people may be trapped inside the ruins of the commercial building, the agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
Climate change experts to meet at Dhaka
Source: NewKerala
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-04-22 05:07:02 -0700 | green-news
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open the conference and Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, will give the keynote speech in the closing session. Today's story is about Bangladesh being one of the most adaptive countries...Other so-called developing...
Bangladesh vents ire over 2 Indian dams in Meghalaya
Source: Indian Express
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-04-10 04:01:36 -0700 | green-news
Bangladesh has opposed the construction of two hydro-based power projects along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya until the two countries sign a water sharing agreement, Power Minister Clement Marak informed the state Assembly today. A Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission (JRC)...
Arunachal, Bangladesh discuss management of Brahmaputra
Source: The Hindu
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-04-06 05:11:50 -0700 | green-news
Arunachal Pradesh and Bangladesh have discussed several measures for better management of the Brahmaputra River for mutual benefit, official sources said on Saturday. Arunachal Pradesh Water Resources Development Minister Newlai Tingkhatra during a meeting in Itanagar on Friday with the...
Fast-growing rice variety
Source: DAWN
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-03-31 17:48:20 -0700 | green-news
Bangladesh are likely to get a new variety of rice seeds within next year that will mature in 105 days or three-and-a-half months, the quickest among all the varieties currently out on the fields...But farmers can harvest the latest one...
Meteorology Brought To You From Asia -- 2/14/13
Posted by: Adrian Holman
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-02-14 04:05:30 -0800 | green-news
Here is the Asian continental weather forecast for Thursday 14 January 2013. All weather statistics have been calculated by AccuWeather and all degrees are in Fahrenheit. Baghdad, Iraq: Partly Cloudy. 71/48. Kuwait City, Kuwait: Sunny and breezy. 72/52. Kabul, Afghanistan:...
Top 10 Most Beautiful Gardens in the World
Posted by: stephen48
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2012-11-06 04:50:36 -0800 | green-news
Gardening is a good hobby. For the pleasure people make gardens. In many countries they make gardens for people’s visiting. These gardens are some of them. These are the Top 10 Most Beautiful Gardens in the World. These gardens are...
Tortoises seized at Dhaka airport
Source: BBC
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2012-06-17 14:24:10 -0700 | political-news
Bangladesh seizes 400 tortoises at Dhaka airport Rare tortoises are wanted as pets or for use in oriental medicines Customs officials in Bangladesh have seized more than 400 tortoises which they found in suitcases bound for Thailand. Acting on a...
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