Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of Trust Bank Ltd Gen Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said that country's economy was passing through a tough time following two time floods, cyclone Sidr, avian influenza and global food shortage. He said the economy is really facing tough time due to world economic meltdown.
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque hoped that the next budget would be pro-people, pro-rural and pro-marginalised. He was speaking as chief guest at a roundtable discussion titled 'Budget and Social Safety Net Programmes: Perspective of Marginalized'.
A cyclonic storm codenamed 'Bijli' formed over the west-central and adjoining east-central Bay and moved slightly northwards on Thursday evening, packing a wind speed of up to 80 kilometers per hour. A latest special bulletin of the Met Office said it was centered about 735 km southwest of Chittagong Port, 685 km southwest of Cox's Bazar Port and 600 km south/southwest of Mongla Port at 6pm.
The government on Wednesday formed an expert committee to revise and finalise the Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2008 in light of government's 'Vision 2021' and perspective plan.
- Bangladesh advised ports to hoist cautionary signals and asked all fishing boats and trawlers not to venture into deep seas as a tropical storm brewed in the Bay of Bengal, the meteorological department said on Wednesday. The storm packing winds up to 50 km (31 miles) was 1,135 km (710 miles) southwest of the country's main Chittagong port at 0000 GMT.