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In the days since a devastating cyclone struck impoverished Bangladesh, this village has grappled with impossible questions. Complete Story...
Azahar Ali huddled with his family, reading from the Quran, as the cyclone roared in. First the power went out, then screaming winds blew out the windows and ripped off the roof. The sea rushed in, washing him and his family away.
Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation roughly the size of Iowa, is prone to destructive cyclones and floods. A look at past storms and their death tolls:
The death toll from Bangladesh's most devastating storm in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday and relief officials warned the figure could jump sharply as rescuers reach more isolated areas.
The White House offered condolences Saturday evening to victims of a deadly cyclone in Bangladesh and said the U.S. government has provided an initial $2.1 million in emergency relief aide.
Hundreds of thousands of survivors were stuck Saturday behind roads blocked by fallen trees, iron roofs and thick sludge as rescue workers fought to reach towns along Bangladesh's coast that were ravaged by a powerful cyclone that killed at least 1,723 people.
The official death toll from a cyclone that wreaked havoc on southwest Bangladesh reached 1,070 Saturday, while military helicopters and ships joined rescue and relief operations and aid workers on the ground struggled to reach victims.
A cyclone that slammed into the coast with 150 mph winds killed at least 1,100 people, isolating remote towns and villages swamped by a storm surge or hemmed in by piles of debris, aid workers and a Bangladeshi news agency said Friday.
A cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh's coast with 140 mph winds has killed at least 425 people, United News of Bangladesh reported Friday.
Ten of thousands of coastal villagers took shelter inland Thursday as a cyclone rapidly approached Bangladesh's southwestern shores, spawning cold drizzles, strong winds and high waves, a weather official said.
A strong earthquake shook coastal areas in southern Bangladesh, and residents rushed out of their homes in panic, officials and witnesses said. A few buildings developed cracks, but no casualties were immediately reported.
Five rear carriages of an overcrowded express train jumped their tracks Saturday in southern Bangladesh, killing at least five passengers and injuring more than 100 others, a railway spokesman said.
The team are distributing 2007 flood forecasts in five regions in Bangladesh (Image: Climate Forecasting Applications in Bangladesh)
A former Bangladeshi military officer convicted in absentia for his role in the 1975 assassination of his country's first prime minister has been arrested, authorities said Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of health workers and volunteers fanned out across Bangladesh on Sunday in an effort to immunize 24 million children against polio after the disease recently resurfaced.
About 2,000 hard-line Muslims rallied and burned a Danish flag Thursday in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, police and organizers said.
The wind whipped through the sky. The river swelled above the tree line.
The latest stats show that nearly 3500 people have died in the past few days and this figure continues to rise. Imagine, you go to sleep in peace in the night, looking forward to the next day, another usual day and then the morning comes, but you don't wake up.
Grieving survivors and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a cyclone that battered Bangladesh as the death toll reached over 2,300 on Sunday and a government official declared the disaster "a national calamity".
THE death toll from Cyclone Sidr that devastated the coast south of Bangladesh last week may reach 8,000, government officials warned yesterday.
DHAKA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Military ships and helicopters were trying on Saturday to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed more than 1,600 people and pummelled impoverished Bangladesh with mighty winds and waves. Cyclone Sidr smashed into the country's south …
On Thursday the deadliest storm to hit the country in a decade, Tropical Cyclone, Sidr demolished many parts of Bangladesh leaving many homeless or dead.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A cyclone that slammed into the coast with 150 mph winds killed at least 1,100 people, isolating remote towns and villages swamped by a storm surge or hemmed in by piles of debris, aid workers and a Bangladeshi news agency said Friday.
At least 500 people have been killed and thousands made homeless after a powerful tropical cyclone slammed into the southern coastal region of Bangladesh late Thursday, local government officials said Friday.
A cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh's coast with 150 mph winds killed at least 242 people, leveled homes and forced the evacuation of 650,000 villagers before heading inland and losing strength Friday, officials said.Cyclone Sidr roared across the country's southwestern co …
A super cyclone was bearing down rapidly on Bangladesh's southwest coastline, ripping off tin roofs from houses and uprooting trees, as tens of thousands of mainlanders were evacuated to shelters.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center finally gave in and rated the storm at 135 knots--or 155 mile per hour winds. This is the cutoff for Category 5. There may be some weakening by landfall, but what we're expecting is a borderline Cat 4/Cat 5 striking along the path shown above.
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The open sky policy for limited period October 1 to December 31- announced by the government not so long ago to ease the situation arising out of capacity shortage, has failed to attract additional capacity. No major airline, operating to and from Bangladesh has showed any i …
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Banglalink donated an additional Tk. 10 lakh to the Chief Adviser's Relief and Welfare Fund in aid of the flood-affected people, primarily generated through fund raising activities. Rashid Khan, CEO of Banglalink handed...
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Tourism can be a powerful force in eradicating poverty, says Dhaka University Zoology Professor Anwarul Islam. "The benefits yielded from tourism should be fairly distributed," he said..
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The government's newly adopted international telecom service policy bars already-licensed local and foreign private telephone companies and internet service providers (ISPs) from getting licences to operate any kind of system through which all overseas calls will be channelised i …
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Villagers in eastern India have been lining up to get their cattle photographed as part of a new scheme to stop smuggling of the animals into Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday.
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