New Delhi/Dhaka: The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) through the SPRINT Initiative is providing humanitarian assistance to the flood affected people of Bangladesh with a focus on maternal and child health services. Bangladesh has been witnessing heavy floods since the…
Category: Disasters
Indonesia passenger plane wreckage located in remote Papua
The wreckage of an Indonesian plane which went missing with 54 people on board has been spotted in the remote western Papua region, officials say. The Trigana Air flight lost contact at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) on Sunday as…
Hiroshima marks 70 years since atomic bomb
Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft. A ceremony, attended by PM Shinzo Abe, was held at Hiroshima’s memorial park before thousands of lanterns…
India floods kill more than 100
Heavy monsoon rains in India have killed more than 100 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands of people to take shelter in relief camps, India’s home ministry has said. A cyclone struck the state of West…
Another 4 killed in Bandarban landslide: Abuse of hills should end
The death of anther four persons in landslide in Bandarban has brought into focus a cucial question as to whether our hills are safe, or something has gone wrong disturbing their safety. In the last few decades the hills have…
Cyclone-induced tidal water inundates Bagerhat coastal village
Tidal water inundated Dumuria village in Chitalmari upazila as an embankment on the Chitalmari River developed breach on Friday, rendering 200 families homeless. Nizam Uddin Sheikh, chairman of Chitalmari union parishad, said about 40-foot portion of the embankment on the…
Send relief to cyclone affected people: Khaleda urged Govt
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday urged the government to send necessary relief materials to cyclone-hit areas. In a statement,issued to the press the former premier accused the government of having failed to stand beside the storm-hit people with necessary…
Cyclone crosses Ctg, causes heavy rainfall in Bangladesh, WB, Orissa
The coast crossing cyclonic storm “Komen” crossed Chittagong coast near Sandwip at 06am today (Friday) and now lies over Noakhali and adjoining land area as a land depression. Maritime ports of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar have been advised to lower…
Landslides in Nepal bury villages, killing at least 7 people
Authorities say landslides in a mountain area of Nepal have buried two villages, killing at least seven people with several more believed to be buried. The Home Ministry said Thursday that another 13 people were hurt in the landslides triggered…
Cyclonic storm ‘Komen’ in Bay: Danger Signal 7
Danger signal No 7 in 7 dists, 2 ports; danger signal 5 in 8 dists, 2 ports The deep depression over the Northeast Bay and adjoining Bangladesh coast moved slightly north-northeastwards over the same area and intensified into a cyclonic…
DCCs in a fix to fight capital’s chronic water logging
Dhaka City Corporations (North and South) yet take any action to remove water logging in the densely populated capital Dhaka. Recently, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Annisul Haque visited several water logging areas and expressed his disappointment at the…
Dangers of dam burst as seen in the recent past
Dr Latha Anantha One of history’s worst dam bursts took place in Gujarat in 1979 when the four-kilometer long Machhu Dam II on the Machhu River collapsed. This led to a deluge in the industrial city of Morbi located five…
2000 homeless as fire burns down 600 shanties in city
A massive fire gutted around 600 shanties in the city’s Madhya Badda area on Monday, leaving some 2,000 people homeless. Fire service officials said the fire broke out at one of the shanties behind ‘Bhai Bhai Boarding’ at Kha-198 Madhya…
Landslide kills 6 in Ctg
At least six people, including three siblings, were killed and four others injured in separate incidents of landslide and wall collapse, triggered by torrential rains for the last couple of days, in the port city early Sunday.
Six killed, four injured in Chittagong landslide
At least six people, including three siblings, were killed and four others injured in separate incidents of landslide and wall collapse, triggered by torrential rains for the last couple of days, in the port city early Sunday. Pankaj Barua, sub-inspector…
UN warns of real risk Nepal will not “build back better”
By Aruna Dutt UN.Jul 2015 (IPS) – As Nepal’s monsoon rains approach, some humanitarian aid remains tied up in the capital Kathmandu and there are concerns that a rush to build shelters could lead to the same shoddy construction that…
Rain disrupts early birds’ homebound Eid trips
Heavy monsoon showers lashed the capital on Wednesday causing immense miseries to city dwellers as well as those who are on their way home to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr. As Wednesday was a public holiday, the city dwellers who were…
Retrofit technology turns first ever RMG building earthquake resistant
Japanese expert with the local engineers have conducted systematic retrofitting construction work in a garment factory of Ashulia for the first time in the country to turn the RMG unit into earthquake resistant.
Rana Plaza order on charge-sheet July 8
A Dhaka court on Sunday fixed July 8 to decide on whether to admit charges against Rana Plaza building owner Sohel Rana and 40 others in the case filed for the murder of more than 1,100 people in the collapse…
Landslide, flood death toll rises to 17 in hill districts
Landslides and flashfloods, triggered by incessant monsoon rains, left six people dead in the district on Saturday. With the six people, the death toll from landslides and flashflood-related incidents in the district rose to 17. A woman and her daughter…
Rain-induced landslide in hill districts: Death toll rises to 11
Landslides and flashfloods, triggered by torrential monsoon rains, left 11 people dead in Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts on Friday. In Cox’s Bazar, two people — Futu, 18 of Juyaria Nala area and Amir Hossian, 45, of Kaoyar Kup area–…
With monsoon onset land slides down Bandarban hills: 2 killed
Two siblings were killed and their parents injured in a landslide, caused by incessant rainfall for the last four days, at Banarupa Para in Bandarban municipality area early Friday. The deceased were identified as Alif, 12, son of Abdur Razzak…
Death toll in trawler capsize in the Meghna now 9
The death toll from Thursday’s trawler capsize in the Meghna River here rose to nine with recovery of six more bodies on Friday morning. Seven of the deceased were identified as Ummeli, 04, Sumiya, 08, Faysal, 06, Bayezid, 02, all…
Tousands of Nepalis flee to safety as landslide blocks river
Thousands of people have fled to safety following a landslide in western Nepal which blocked the flow of a river. The Kali Gandaki River in Myagdi district, about 140km (90 miles) north-west of the capital, Kathmandu, has created a deep…
The issue of people affected by conflicts, disasters
Rezaul Karim Chowdhury Why there are the urgency and importance of the issues of “People Affected to Conflict and Disaster”, i)Asia Pacific (AP) is the most effected region in respect of natural disasters, where world 80 % of natural disaster…
2 killed while taking rainbath as rain disrupts city life
Two people, including a minot boy, died of electrocution and two others injured during a heavy rain in the city’s Lalbagh area on Friday afternoon. Torrential rains with lighting strikes lashed the city on Friday afternoon leaving the normal life…
At least 42 killed as second major earthquake hits Nepal
By Sally Hayden Another earthquake has hit Nepal killing at least 37, just over two weeks after a 7.8 earthquake resulted in the deaths of more than 8,000 people. This time the epicenter was close to the base camp of…
Another major quake hits Nepal, India, Bangladesh
Another major earthquake hit Nepal in a remote region near the Chinese border on Tuesday, killing at least four people less than three weeks after the country was ravaged by another deadly quake. The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday’s quake…
Quake-hit Nepal families desperate to get on with their lives
By Naresh Newar Nepal, May 5 (IPS) – Just over a week after a dreadful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, displaced families are gradually – but cautiously – resuming their normal lives, though most are still badly shaken by the…
Germanwings crash pilot had trial run during previous flight?
By Sally Hayden A preliminary report released by the French prosecutors examining the Germanwings crash has revealed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz apparently practised a rapid descent on his previous flight. The report was released on Wednesday by the French Civil…