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Up to 20 million Bangladeshis may be forced to leave the country in the next 40 years because of climate change , one of the country's most senior politicians has said. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh 's finance minister, called on Britain and other...
Tags: Bangladesh, Dhāka, Environment, Climate change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Refugees, Climate refugee, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Dhaka, Effects of global warming, Effects of global warming on India, Demography, Cyclone Aila, Haran, Global warming, Population, South Asia, Current sea level rise
Eighteen crocodiles have gone missing from a salt-water pool of Sundarban's Karamajal Wildlife Breeding Centre, officials said on Tuesday. Workers at the centre found the one-year-old crocs missing while changing the pool's water on Monday, Mihir Kumar...
Tags: Bangladesh, Dhāka, Indomalaya, Sundarbans, Cyclone Aila, Croc, Crocodiles, Crocodylidae, Geography of West Bengal, Law Crime
Dhaka on Sunday [19 July] sought assistance of $1,149 million from the international community, including development partners, for long-term disaster management programmes, particularly in the light of the aftermath of recent cyclone Aila that ravaged...
Tags: disaster management, cyclone aila, Bangladesh, Aila
Dhaka, Jul 19 (bdnews24.com)-The central bank has announced a "pro-active accommodative" monetary policy for July-December with a provision to supply fund from its surplus foreign reserves to boost investment. "We want to identify this monetary policy...
Tags: Bangladesh Bank, monetary policy, central bank, Dr Atiur Rahman, bank governor, Dhaka, governor atiur, gdp growth, active accommodative, Cyclone Aila
Ultadanga, Shyambazar, Manicktala, Garia, VIP Road, Salt Lake BC market, Sealdah, Tollygunge, Lake Market, Park Circus, Jagubabur Bazaar and Gariahat. Every customer will get only 2 kg of potato, which will be sold by the Essential Commodities Supply...
Tags: Cyclone Aila
Reuters Published: June 29, 2009, 23:16 Dhaka: More than 350,000 Bangladeshis are struggling without proper homes and at greater risk of disease a month after cyclone Aila ravaged parts of the country, international aid group Oxfam said on Monday.
Tags: Cyclone Aila
It is the normal practice that relief work is extended on topmost priority in the aftermath of any calamity. Whenever calamity strikes, it leaves a trail of destruction behind, homes get destroyed, lives are lost and those affected just do not know how...
Tags: cyclone aila, sunderbans, kolkata, ngo
The government has postponed agriculture loan collections from farmers in cyclone-hit areas. The decision came from a meeting at a cabinet meeting chaired by prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her press secretary said on Monday. The coastal regions have been...
Tags: Bangladesh Dhaka, hit areas, Cyclone Aila, prime minister
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday held a high-level review meeting in the aftermath of cyclone Aila, which, according to official figures, has claimed 125 lives (excluding Darjeeling). Some villages still lie submerged, and there are...
Tags: Cyclone Aila
The West Bengal government will rebuild 400 kms of embankments destroyed by Cyclone Aila in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans in an effort to save the region from any more floods in the coming monsoon. "We'll start constructing 400 kms of embankments...
Tags: Cyclone Aila, India