Jessore – An immense shortage of safe water hit the district town due to the continuous fall in underground water level with the advent of dry season, causing sufferings to people. UNB newds reported
Category: Disasters
Africa – more than just conflicts, corruption, disasters
By IPS World Desk Rome, May 25 (IPS) – Natural and man-made disasters, armed conflicts, widespread corruption and deep social inequalities have been so far a dramatic source for most news coverage when it comes to Africa, the world’s second-largest…
Trump asks Muslims on first foreign trip: Drive out terrorists
Washington, May 20 (AP/UNB)- President Donald Trump will use his first visit to the Middle East to call for unity in the fight against radicalism in the Muslim world, casting the challenge as a “battle between good and evil” and…
Climate change has changed geography of Honduras
By Thelma Mejía Balfate, Honduras, May 15 (IPS) – In Balfate, a rural municipality that includes fishing villages and small farms along Honduras’ Caribbean coast, the effects of climate change are already felt on its famous scenery and beaches. The…
One killed as nor’wester hits Bogra
Bogra – A man was killed as a nor’wester lashed several upazilas of the district on Monday. UNB news agency reported
Nations assess cyberattack damages; UK focuses on hospitals
London – Teams of technicians were working “round the clock” Saturday to restore hospital computer systems in Britain and check transport services in other nations after a global cyberattack that hit dozens of countries crippled the U.K.’s health system. In…
US nuclear site’s collapsed tunnel may have gone unnoticed
Spokane – The large sinkhole that caved in a tunnel filled with radioactive waste at a sprawling Washington state nuclear waste repository may have gone unnoticed for days before its discovery because workers do not patrol tunnel sites daily, a…
Gender equality can save women’s lives in disasters
By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Robert Glasser UN, May 11 (IPS) – Later this month, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) will take place in Mexico. This meeting provides an important opportunity to reboot global progress on embedding gender…
Yemen minister says 60 percent of population in dire poverty
Riyadh – Yemen’s planning minister says 60 percent of the country’s population is in dire poverty more than two years since the Shiite rebels forced the country’s internationally recognized government and president out of the capital. AP/UNB news agency reported
Dhaka’s rice outpur shortfall 1.5m tonnes due to flash floods
Dhaka – The government is apprehending at least 15 lakh tonnes of rice production shortfall due to damage of Boro crops caused by floods in haor region other areas of the country this year. Meanwhile, the government has included 50,000…
Five bodies of boat capsize victims found in Rajshahi
Rajshahi, May 2 – The bodies of five people including two minors, who went missing after a boat capsized in the Padma river in Dorgapara area of the district town on Sunday evening, were recovered on Tuesday morning.
Boat with 666 tons of rice for flood victims sinks
A boat carrying 18,000 kg rice meant for distributing among the flood-hit people here under the vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme sank in the Surma River in Sadar upazila on Sunday night. Food controller of Sadar upazila Shaheen Ahmed said…
Nor’wester kills 4 damages100 houses in NE BD
Four people were killed and over 100 dwelling houses damaged as a nor’wester lashed nine upazilas of the district on Sunday evening. The deceased are Faridul Islam, 48, son of Azizul Islam of Sapura area of Boalia Police Station in…
Indigenous myths carry warning signals of natural disasters
Carrie Arnold Shortly before 8am on 26 December 2004, the cicadas fell silent and the ground shook in dismay. The Moken, an isolated tribe on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, knew that the Laboon, the ‘wave that eats…
Food support to Bangladesh’s flash-flood-hit people urgent
Dhaka – Speakers at a view exchange meeting on Sunday emphasised the need for taking coordinated efforts to ensure reaching of food and assistance to all the flood affected people in haor (depression) area until the next harvest. Speaking at…
Declare flood-hit haor areas disaster zones: Khaleda
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday demanded the government declare the flood-hit haor areas as disaster ones for the next six months. In a statement, she also alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has failed to realise the severity of…
Haor farmers to get free agri inputs for next crop: PM
Sunamganj – Issuing a note of warning that no one will be spared if any negligence is found inha or embankment construction,Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Haor farmers will get free agricultural inputs for the next crop. UNB…
Bangladesh’s flood hit Haor farmers to get free agri inputs
Dhaka, Apr 30 – Issuing a note of warning that no one will be spared if any negligence is found in haor embankment construction, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Haor farmers will get free agricultural inputs for…
BNP accuses Govt of maltreating flood-hit haor people
Dhaka – BNP vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Saturday accused the government of maltreating with the flood-hit people of haor areas. Addressing a human chain on Saturday he said that troubles and miseries of the haor areas relected the failure of…
20 million people could ‘starve to death’ in 6 months
By Baher Kamal Rome, Apr 28 (IPS) – Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN leading food and agriculture agency’s chief on April 28…
‘Low dissolved oxygen high acidity cause BD mass fish deaths’
Dhaka – Decreased dissolved oxygen and increased acidity in water due to decomposition of immature paddy grain, shrubs and other organic materials caused the fish mortality in the haors (depressions) in Sylhet region on Northeast Bangladesh. There are no sign…
‘Floods damage Boro paddy, hit 850,088 families’
Dhaka, Apr 27 (UNB) – Boro crops on 219,840 hectares of land have fully been damaged by flood in six districts of the country since March 29 last, affecting 850,088 families, accordingly to government estimate.
Haors inundated by rain not for damaged dams: Minister
Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud on Thursday claimed that the haor regions in different parts of the country, especially the northwest, have been submerged due to heavy rains, not for the damage to any dam. “Excessive rainfall is the…
Bamboo gaining traction in Caribbean as climate savior
By Desmond Brown Kingston, Jamaica, Apr 24 (IPS) – Keen to tap its natural resources as a way to boost its struggling economy, Guyana struck a multi-million-dollar deal with Norway in 2009. Under the deal, Norway agreed to pay up…
Boro paddy on 43 thousand ha damaged in Habiganj floods
Dhaka – Boro-paddy on About 43 thousands hectares of land was damaged by flash flood due to incessant rain in Habiganj District. According to the District Agriculture Extension (DAE) total land of 1 lakh 16 thousand and 510 hectares were…
Prove Indian uranium water mixed with Haor water:PM
Throwing a challenge to BNP, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the party to prove its claim that uranium-contaminated water coming from India got mixed with haor water in Sunamganj. “It’s just an unnecessary propaganda. What type of proof…
Dam-bursts at Pagnar haor on NE Bangladesh damage crops
Dhaka, Apr 24 – The Urar Bondho dam at Pagnar haor in Jamalganj and Dirai upazilas breached at various points in Sunamganj on northeast Bangladesh early Monday, damaging crops on some 9,400 hectares of land.
Floods sumerged crop protection embankments: Minister
Dhaka – Flash floods in the haor areas after incessant rainfall has spilled over the crop protection embankments as the height of water was above the barriers causing the damage to the crops, water resources minister Anisul Islam Mahmud said…
4 years after Rana Plaza: Many victims’ families yet to get compensation
Even after the fours years, the families of many of the Rana Plaza victims who were killed during the tragedy are yet to get any compensation from the authorities concerned due to identification crisis. The families of some 150 people,…
Flood affected Haor families to to get 30 kilo rice Tk 500
The government will provide 30 kgs of rice and Tk 500 cash every month under a 100-day scheme to each affected family of disaster-hit haor areas, said Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya on Sunday. “The government…