The Pakistan Army field hospital which was set up at Bhandaria, Barisal and Bangladesh for relief operations after cyclone “Sidr” worked day and night to mitigate the sufferings of flood-affected people, earning goodwill for the country. A Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying the field hospital, doctors, paramedics and life-saving drugs was the first to [...]
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Cox’s Bazar and Sundarbans are in good position of selecting New 7 Wonders
Posted in Climate Change, Development, tagged Cox's Bazar, Sundarbans, 7 Wonders on December 28, 2007 | 120 Comments »
Cox’s Bazar beach and Sundarbans Forest have created excellence at the very beginning of selecting New 7 Wonders of Nature. Cox’s Bazar beach, largest sea beach of the world, has taken the first position among the primary nominated 158 natural places of the world. (more…)
Bali climate conference ends with watered-down declaration
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bali, Climate Change, global warming on December 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Almost 200 countries agreed in Bali to launch negotiations towards an agreement in 2009 to address climate change on the basis of a watered-down declaration. But they failed to translate the findings or recommendations of the scientific community into a corresponding global political response.
The decision - coming about 16 hours after the deadline had expired [...]
Victory for the vulnerable with decision on climate-change adaptation fund
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bali, Climate Change, Indonesia on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Bali, Indonesia: Years of tense climate-change talks ended last night with victory for the (more…)
Life after Sidr
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bangerhat, Cyclone Sidr, Khuriakhali on December 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Many people lost their Houses by devastating cyclone sidr. Now they are staying beside high roads. These temporary houses are made up with coconut leaves, old clothes and (more…)
He is a miracle boy
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bangladesh, Cyclone, Sidr on December 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Temporary house
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bangladesh, Cyclone, Sidr on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Every day lot of foreign journalists, NGO, Donor representing are visiting cyclone (more…)
Waiting for assistance
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bangerhat, Cyclone Sidr, Khuriakhali on November 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From Khuriakhali, Bangerhat: It was a tough task to enter here because almost every road of entering Khuriakhali is unfit for vehicles. But one canal is available to come here. That’s why I started to come here through a tiny boat on Friday (23 November, 2007). Dead bodies of several animals and birds were floating [...]
In search of a lost child
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bagerhat, Child, Southkhali on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Southkhali, Bagerhat: Hundreds of men, women and children, their lives shattered by cyclone Sidr, queued for desperately needed relief in Southkhali in Bagerhat Tuesday.
After a long wait with little drinking water, the villagers, many bereaved and all in a state of shock, eventually received either biscuits or other dry food from relief workers.
Aleya Begum, who [...]
Stench of death hangs over Bangladesh village
Posted in Climate Change, tagged Bangladesh, Cyclone, Sidr, Swarankhola on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
SWARANKHOLA, Bangladesh : The stench of death from bloated corpses wafts through the air at Swarankhola, a small fishing village in southern Bangladesh that bore the brunt of a deadly cyclone last week.
Three days after the Cyclone Sidr swept through the Bay of Bengal with winds of 250 kms (more…)
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