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Barriers of Emergency response for distance victims of disaster in Bangladesh

December 29, 2009 No Comments

Streets damaged through Aila

Streets damaged through Aila

Md. Shahidul Islam

Bangladesh: The 15th November, 2007 which shocks me the core of my beings? The whole southern part of the country was devastated due to cyclone SIDR. Initially we could not understand what was really happened. But as the time was passing we were becoming paralyzed to hear some most terrible news from our southern regions.

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Cyclone may form off depressions at Bay this month

October 6, 2008 No Comments

At least one cyclone may form off one or two depressions in the Bay of Bengal this month, the Met office said in its long-range forecast for October.

The forecast, issued after a meeting of experts from different disciplines at the met office, said the monsoon would

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Climate link with killer cyclones spurs fierce scientific debate

May 6, 2008 No Comments

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina laid waste to parts of the US Gulf Coast. Last year, the Arabian Peninsula was hit by a super-cyclone, Gonu. Now, an unusual early-season storm, Nargis, has slammed into Myanmar, brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall.

Are these events — massively costly in lives and treasure — all linked? Could they be part of an alarming trend of weird, more powerful storms stoked by global warming? That’s a question that

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He is a miracle boy

December 1, 2007 5 Comments

Cyclone killed their mother, their sister was missing. Now they don’t have any hope of living.

From Potuakhali: Villagers call him “miracle boy”. His name is Obaidul (7). His job was to cut fish and make packets with his mother. During the time of “Cyclone Sidr” hited in Bangladesh he was in an island named Kolagacia (situated in southern Bangladesh). The tidal waves of cyclone drifted him about 20 kilometers. His mother Halima begum (30) saved him during the time of drifting and died immediately after putting him in a safe

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Temporary house

November 29, 2007 No Comments

Every day lot of foreign journalists, NGO, Donor representing are visiting cyclone devastated areas. Local peoples are not habituated by seeing them. This girl just runs away after seeing some foreign journalists. But my camera framed up her when she was inside in a temporary house.

Every day lot of foreign journalists, NGO, Donor representing are visiting cyclone

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Indigenous communities and their endangered life

Sharonkhola,Bagerhat is a severely Cyclone SIDR,2007 affected area of the country. An indigenous community named Cobbler is living at...

Cyclone AILA and its adverse impact on child and maternal health

Gabura, Satkhira, Bangladesh: On 23rd May 2009 cyclone Aila hit the south –west part of the country. Since then...

We will be hoping for some rain soon: Naresh Mardi

Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh: Farmers had begun to thresh their paddy in Nachol by mid-May. The harvest, they said was good...