Stinky polluted waters of the rivers Shitalakhya and Buriganga hardly come to the use of the local residents.Though they regularly pay bills to WASA, they do not have access to the supply of clean water.
Tag: Disasters
Huge waves of industrial waste have left scores missing in China
By VICE News and Reuters At least 91 people were missing after a giant mound of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump site in a southern China boomtown and buried 33 buildings in the country’s latest…
IPPF-SPRINT Initiative’s humanitarian assistance to flood victims
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
National emergency operation centre for disaster soon
The government on Wednesday decided to set up a well-equipped National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) to conduct, coordinate, guide and monitor search and rescue operations during any possible disaster, including earthquake, and its aftermath. The decision was taken at a…
Nepal earthquake wipes out trekking village of Langtang
Langtang the most beautiful village at the foot of the Himalaya and used by trekkers on their way to climbing Mount Everest has been completely wiped out in an avalanche of earth and snow triggered by the April 25 earthquake,…
Nepal NGOs want coordination, environ for quake relief work
The NGO Federation of Nepal at a meeting in Kathmandu has urged their government to face the challenge of coordination of the post quake rescue and relief operations for achieving maximum effectiveness to relieve the sufferings of the quake-stricken people.…
‘No more’ Nepal quake survivors, toll crosses 6,621
Nepal’s authorities have ruled out the possibility of finding more survivors of last Saturday’s earthquake, as the death toll has risen to 6,621. “We are trying our best in rescue and relief work but now I don’t think that there…
Nepal recovers two survivors 5 days after quake
The 15-year-old boy had been buried alive for five days, listening to bulldozers clearing mountains of debris, fearful the incessant aftershocks might collapse the darkened crevice he was trapped in. And then, “all of the sudden I saw light,” Pemba…
After the earthquake – What Nepal needs
Meenakshi Ganguly I reached Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu state a few days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami had killed nearly 300,000 people in south and southeast Asia, including more than 10,000 in India. The disaster had shocked the world,…
Want to help Nepal? Cancel its debt, says rights group
United Nations, Apr (IPS) – The death toll has now passed 5,000, and there is no telling how much farther it will climb. Search and rescue operations in Nepal entered their third day Monday, as the government and international aid…
Official mourning declared for Nepal quake victims
Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday’s earthquake in which more than 5,000 people are now known to have died. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala says the government is doing all it can but is overwhelmed…
Nepal death toll might hit 10,000 as rescue time runs short
By Sally Hayden The rapidly escalating toll of people killed in Nepal’s earthquake could reach 10,000 — as rescuers run out of the time still needed to discover possible survivors of Saturday’s disaster. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala voiced the estimate…
Death toll 4000: Most of Nepal Army in quake rescue
Nine out of 10 Nepalese troops are said to be involved in search and rescue operations, as the country pleads for more foreign aid to deal with a massive earthquake that killed 4,000 people.
Videos emerge of climbers fleeing Mount Everest avalanche
By Colleen Curry Harrowing videos of Mount Everest climbers running from an avalanche and watching as the injured were airlifted off the mountain began to emerge today from the aftermath of Nepal’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The climbers described chaos as…
Nepal earthquake death toll crosses 3,618
At least 3,618 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday, say officials. Rameshwor Dangal, head of Nepal’s disaster management agency, said another 6,500 people had been injured. Dozens of people are…
17 killed in quake-induced Everest avalanche
A powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Nepal sparked a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest on Saturday, killing at least 17 people on the mountain. At least 30 were injured.
Nepal landmarks flattened by the quake
The tremors on Saturday’s devastating earthquake in Nepal lasted barely a minute by some accounts, yet this was enough to bring down centuries of Nepalese history. Among the buildings to collapse was the Dharahara tower, which once dominated the skyline…
Quake shock quite an experience
Rakibul Hasan Yesterday I was browsing online; few watching movies and glancing morning newspapers though, while mostly sleeping, and two of them snoring in delta sleep on the Saturday holiday; reasons were perhaps no tensions of classes. However, I suddenly…