Urgent enhancements needed to combat climate change in Bangladesh
The United Nations World Food Programme and the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief called for urgent enhancements to combat climate change in Bangladesh.
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Int鈥檒 symposium on disaster management held
An international symposium on disaster management was held at Dkaka Club in the capital on Tuesday...
Time for disaster management reforms
Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to the devastating effects of climate change, wherein natural disasters have become a common and rising reality for its people. The disastrous flash floods sweeping across eastern Bangladesh at present are the latest in a wave of climate-related catastrophes to hit the country in recent years. In the face of...
Flood forecast system absent in many areas, no rescue boats
The flash flood that recently ripped through eastern, south-eastern and north-eastern Bangladesh busted a myth crafted by the immediate past autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina that Bangladesh is a world champion in disaster management...
Half million in shelters as flood moves inland聽
The number of people in flood shelters exceeded five lakh on Tuesday as flood spread further inland, temporarily displacing 40,000 more people in the country鈥檚 eastern and...
Flash flood displaces 2 lakh, leaves million stranded
The onrush of water rising to 10 feet swept scores of villages in eastern, southeastern, and northeastern Bangladesh on Friday as deadly flash flooding continued for the fourth...
3.6m people affected as flash flood worsens
Thousands of people awaiting emergency rescue remained beyond electricity and mobile network coverage as a flash flood unleashed by heavy rains and an...
Ex-senior sec Shah Kamal on five-day remand
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Sunday placed former senior secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, Shah Kamal, on five day-remand in a case filed with the Mohammadpur police station...
1,000 relief camps set up as Pakistan braces for heatwave
Over 1,000 camps have been set up across Pakistan鈥檚 southern province of Sindh in anticipation of a severe heatwave, disaster management officials said on Tuesday...