At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF analysis released today. Heatwaves were the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year, with …
Pacific islands are trying low-cost ways to protect crops and coasts from cyclones that are a bigger threat -- for now -- than rising sea levels that could wipe low-lying nations off the map. Pacific island delegates at June 1-12 talks in Bonn working on a new U.N. climate treaty …
Ravik Bhattacharjee Posted: Friday , Jun 05, 2009 at 0145 hrs IST Gosaba (South 24 Parganas): In her address to Parliament on Thursday, President Pratibha Patil promised that the Government would provide
Pranesh Sarkar KOLKATA, 2 JUNE: A report filed by a senior bureaucrat on the supply of relief materials in the cyclone-hit South 24-Parganas has virtually demolished the tall claim of state disaster management minister, Mr Mortaza Hossain, in the matter. Mr Hossain had yesterday claimed that relief materials had reached …
Bangladesh should not accept money from the climate change fund if it is given as loan because the country is not responsible for climate change, said the speakers at a seminar yesterday. They also suggested forming a cell that would monitor the fund management to avoid its misuse. The seminar …
The country has suffered a financial loss of about Tk 1,020 crore and a production loss of crops of nearly 3.75 lakh tonnes as over 2.50 lakh hectares of land had been submerged due to the recent devastating cyclone Aila. The Department of Agricultural Extension disclosed this Wednesday after conducting …
Nearly 12 lakh extremely poor people in 15 coastal districts of the country remain exposed to the fury of cyclone every year due to inadequate cyclone centre. Majority of the people who lost their lives in the in the cyclone Aila that battered 11 coastal districts a few days ago …
Agriculture or crop insurance, if introduced, will encourage banks to lend more to the farm sector on which the majority of the country's 150 million population depends for their livelihood, according to top bankers. They said the objective of the insurance will be to provide insurance coverage and financial support …
People in the remote areas of the south and south-eastern districts, inundated by tidal surges associated with cyclone Aila on May 25, are still facing acute crisis of drinking water, food and medicine amid an alarming spread of water borne diseases. A total of 17,708 persons contracted diarrhoea in Khulna …
NAMRATA BIJI AHUJA NEW DELHI Mr Dasgupta was lauded by Mr Chidambaram for the quick work done by the state government on submitting the memorandum detailing the summary of damage and the requirement of funds The Centre on Tuesday accepted the West Bengal government
Sixty-one of the 133 hatchlings of crocodiles and five of the 13 deer have been missing from Wild Animal Breeding Centre at Karomjal under Chandpai Range of the east wing of Sundarbans Forest Division. The matter was detected after Chandpai Range Deputy Ranger Abdur Rob, who is also acting as …
Gale force winds that have wreaked havoc in the country of late struck once again this time in Mirigama on Sunday night, damaging 18 houses. The Disaster Management Center said the storm had struck at around 8.45 pm on Sunday. According to the Center however it caused only minor damages …
Cyclone Aila may have brought destruction in countries like India, Bangladesh and Bhutan but the hydropower sector in the Himalayan nation got a major boost due to the heavy rains triggered by the high-velocity storm. Bhutan
Ravik Bhattacharya Lahiripur (Sunderban Island): Nine-year-old Sandeepa Gharami survived Cyclone Aila, but succumbed in its aftermath. She died on an embankment near Lahiripur on Friday after several days of continuous vomiting and diarrhoea. She received no medical care. Her parents buried her by the river. A week after the storm, …
In troubled waters: The people of Gosaba Island in the Sundarbans of West Bengal waiting for the supply of drinking water from the government. KOLKATA: Even as the West Bengal government has stepped up efforts to ensure that adequate relief reaches storm victims, a debate is on over the procedures …
The country has suffered a financial loss of several hundred crores of taka in agriculture and its sub-sectors, including fisheries, poultry and livestock, due to the cyclone Aila, said sources at the ministry concerned on Sunday. Various types of standing crops on about 2.20 lakh hectares of land in 25 …
The government is going to prepare a master plan to increase the country's forest coverage up to 20 percent in next six years, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday while inaugurating the three-month countrywide 'National Afforestation Movement'. The government is working on the plan to increase the forest coverage by …
ZEESHAN JAWED Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee speaks to cyclone-hit villagers in the Bali camp on Sunday. Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya Gosaba (Sunderbans), May 31: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today tasted the fury of Sunderbans
KOLKATA, 31 May: Following in the footsteps of Rajiv Gandhi, railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee (photograph right) today insisted that the Central assistance should reach directly to zilla parishads and they should distribute the funds through panchayat samities and gram panchayats. She also criticised the state government for not distributing …
