natural calamities
Kuakata Beach / 75,000 trees lost to erosion every year
There was a time when coconut, palm, tamarisk, and mangrove trees swayed with the winds on Kuakata Beach. Their tall trunks guarded the shore-dwellers against the wrath of natural calamities.
Don't abandon crucial projects midway
The BWDB must take advice from our river experts in this regard, change their traditional “cordon approach” to rivers and adopt a modern river management approach, if they really want to manage floods in the region.
Why are Sitrang’s victims still waiting for relief and rehabilitation?
Government help must be both quick and sustainable
“Floods cause damages but have some positive aspects too”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said severe floods cause damages but they also have some positive aspects.
Rains, floods batter Boro cultivation
Natural calamities, including the recent flash floods in haor areas caused by heavy rain amid cyclone Ashani, have damaged the production of 78,987 tonnes of boro rise this season, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE).
Death toll in Nepal floods rises to 55
The death toll in Nepal from flash floods and landslides in the past three days rises to 55, with dozens missing and injured, the government says.
75,000 trees lost to erosion every year
There was a time when coconut, palm, tamarisk, and mangrove trees swayed with the winds on Kuakata Beach. Their tall trunks guarded the shore-dwellers against the wrath of natural calamities.
Don't abandon crucial projects midway
The BWDB must take advice from our river experts in this regard, change their traditional “cordon approach” to rivers and adopt a modern river management approach, if they really want to manage floods in the region.
Why are Sitrang’s victims still waiting for relief and rehabilitation?
Government help must be both quick and sustainable
“Floods cause damages but have some positive aspects too”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said severe floods cause damages but they also have some positive aspects.
Rains, floods batter Boro cultivation
Natural calamities, including the recent flash floods in haor areas caused by heavy rain amid cyclone Ashani, have damaged the production of 78,987 tonnes of boro rise this season, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE).
Death toll in Nepal floods rises to 55
The death toll in Nepal from flash floods and landslides in the past three days rises to 55, with dozens missing and injured, the government says.