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- Bangladesh gaining land, not losing: scientists
- DHAKA AFP — New data shows that Bangladesh's landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say. Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services CEGIS have studied 32 years of satellite...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Bangladesh rickshaws get modern makeover
- DHAKA AFP — The backbreaking job of pedalling a rickshaw in Bangladesh could soon be history with a local company saying it has come up with battery-powered, rechargeable cycles. Bangladesh Diesel Plant, an agricultural farm tool manufacturer owned by the country's powerful army, says it has created an electric...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Bangladesh on hunt for 'wholesome' actors: official
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh authorities are on the hunt for a new breed of clean actors because a government crackdown on lewd movies has created a shortage of acting talent in the country, an official said Tuesday. The state-run Film Development Corporation FDC has launched the three-month search for...
- Research articles 2008-06-17
- Sehwag flays Pakistani cricket attack
- DHAKA AFP — Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir thrived on Pakistan's fielding lapses to hammer blazing half-centuries as India posted a challenging 330-8 in a triangular one-day series match here on Tuesday. Sehwag was let off once during his 89 and left-handed Gambhir twice in his 62 before putting...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- Dhaka says not enough gas for major Tata project
- DHAKA AFP — Talks between Indian conglomerate Tata and the Bangladesh government on a three-billion dollar investment were stalled Monday after the two sides failed to make a breakthrough, an executive said. Bangladesh's view that there was not enough gas for the project appeared to be behind the failure...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Bangladesh ferry death toll rises to 32, bodies recovered
- DHAKA AFP — Rescuers recovered 28 bodies on Tuesday after a ferry sank during a storm in northeastern Bangladesh, taking the confirmed death toll to 32, a police official said. "Divers began work at first light this morning and found 28 bodies. We believe about 20 people are still...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Singing ambassador hits right note with Bangladesh love song
- DHAKA AFP — Britain's ambassador to Dhaka may spend his days practising the sober art of diplomacy but off duty he loves nothing more than to burst into a song -- and now he has recorded one in a studio. Bangladesh-born Anwar Choudhury, who returned to the country of...
- Research articles 2008-04-24
- South African fast bowlers impress in Bangladesh
- DHAKA AFP — The new generation of South African quicks look all set to establish themselves among the world's best after their impressive show in unhelpful conditions here. The fastest bowler of the side Dale Steyn and comeback man Morne Morkel have a tough job of slipping into the...
- Research articles 2008-02-26
- Bangladesh bird flu worsening: UN
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh needs house-to-house surveillance to fight bird flu because the situation has worsened and is "posing a danger to public health," the Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO said Thursday. The statement from the UN's FAO came as neighbouring India battled its worst outbreak of bird flu...
- Research articles 2008-01-24
- Endangered sea turtles found dead in Bangladesh
- DHAKA AFP — At least 20 endangered turtles have been found dead along the coast of southeastern Bangladesh, an official said Thursday. The olive-coloured sea turtles are believed to have died after being caught in fishing nets. "We have found 20 turtles within the last two weeks along...
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- Ex-Bangladesh PM formally indicted in graft case
- DHAKA AFP — A Bangladesh court on Sunday rejected a defence plea to dismiss graft charges against ex-premier Sheikh Hasina Wajed, accepting police testimony in the case as credible, a state prosecutor said. A metropolitan sessions judge in Dhaka said police evidence presented in the past month in the...
- Research articles 2008-01-13
- Bangladesh cancels French museum show after theft of rare artefacts
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh cancelled plans to send rare artefacts to Paris for a museum exhibition next year after two ancient statues of a Hindu deity were stolen en route to France. The 1,500-year-old rare terracotta statues of the Hindu god Vishnu disappeared from Zia International Airport in Dhaka...
- Research articles 2007-12-25
- AID FORaBANGLADESH CYCLONE VICTIMS.
- The European Commission released, on 19 November, 1.5 million in fast-track aid to help the most vulnerable people affected by Cyclone Sidr, which battered Bangladesh on 15 November. Experts from the Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department ECHO were sent from Dhaka to the affected region. Their initial...
- Research articles 2007-11-30
- US Marines airlift water to Bangladesh cyclone victims
- DHAKA AFP — The US navy has begun airlifting urgently needed supplies of clean drinking water to thousands of survivors of Bangladesh's devastating Cyclone Sidr, an official said Saturday. More than 3,400 people died and hundreds of thousands left homeless after the powerful storm on November 15 demolished entire...
- Research articles 2007-11-23
- Troops reach cut off cyclone survivors in Bangladesh
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh's army said Wednesday it had finally managed to reach most of its cyclone-stricken and isolated southern coast, where millions of people are at risk from starvation and without shelter. Six days after cyclone Sidr smashed in from the Bay of Bengal small amounts of aid...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Hundreds dead after cyclone rips through Bangladesh
- DHAKA AFP — Hundreds of people died and tens of thousands were left homeless after a powerful cyclone whipped up huge waves, severe winds and unleashed torrential rains in Bangladesh, officials said Friday. The eye of cyclone Sidr, shown in satellite images as a huge swirling white mass racing...
- Research articles 2007-11-16
- Hundreds dead after cyclone rips through Bangladesh
- DHAKA AFP — More than 600 people were Friday confirmed dead and one report put the toll at over 1,100 after a powerful cyclone smashed impoverished Bangladesh with huge waves, severe winds and torrential rains. Tens of thousands were also left homeless when Cyclone Sidr, described as the worst...
- Research articles 2007-11-16
- Cyclone leaves thousands dead, millions homeless in Bangladesh
- BARGUNA, Bangladesh AFP — Thousands of people are believed dead and millions are homeless and destitute after the worst cyclone in years tore through impoverished Bangladesh, officials said Saturday. More than 1,723 people were confirmed to have died and the number was rising by the hour as soldiers and...
- Research articles 2007-11-16
- Severe cyclone kills 200 in Bangladesh: official
- DHAKA AFP — A powerful cyclone battered southern Bangladesh killing more than 200 people as it uprooted trees, destroyed homes and forced tens of thousands to flee for their lives, officials said Friday. The eye of cyclone Sidr, shown in satellite images as a huge swirling white mass that...
- Research articles 2007-11-15
- Bangladesh banned one in four local films last year: censor board
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh's censor board said Tuesday it had banned a quarter of all films made by its small "Dhaliwood" movie industry in the past year to stamp out "immoral" cinema in the Muslim-majority nation. The industry based in Dhaka made 86 films in the year to June...
- Research articles 2007-09-11
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