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Bangladesh, Myanmar and Honduras were the countries most severely affected by extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008, according to a climate change risk study published on Tuesday.
(RTTNews) - Bangladesh has vowed not to allow terrorists to use its soil for subversive activities against either it or any of its neighbors. "We have pledged not to allow our land to be used by any terrorists.
At least 15 people have been killed and 30 others injured after two passenger buses collided head-on in southwestern Bangladesh, a government administrator said Sunday.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A government administrator says at least 15 people have been killed and 30 others injured after two passenger buses collided head-on in southwestern Bangladesh. Helal Uddin says the accident occurred Sunday about 40 miles southwest of the capital Dhaka. He says 15 people were killed at the scene. The injured have been taken to hospitals. The Bangladesh Road Transport ...
Dhaka - At least 21 people were killed and 45 injured when two buses collided head-on in western Bangladesh on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred in Koidubi, Faridpur district, some 60 kilometres west of the capital Dhaka. ...
Dhaka - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed's visit to New Delhi has been rescheduled following a request from the Indian side, a senior minister said Monday. As both Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are engaged at the Unite...
At least 46 people died in northeastern Bangladesh on Friday after a ferry capsized and sank, police said, the second such accident in the impoverished nation in a week.
Copenhagen - A rise in extreme weather events caused some 600,000 deaths and massive economic damage over the past two decades, according to a survey released Tuesday on the sidelines of an international environmental conference. Bangladesh, Myanma...
An overcrowded passenger boat capsized in northern Bangladesh on Friday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 46 people dead, police said.
An overcrowded passenger boat capsized in northern Bangladesh on Friday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 47 people dead and several missing, police said.
An overcrowded passenger boat carrying more than 80 people capsized in northern Bangladesh on Friday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 38 people dead and several missing, police said.
At least 35 people died in northeastern Bangladesh Friday after a ferry capsized, police said, the second accident of its kind this week in the impoverished nation.
Authorities say a passenger boat has capsized after being hit by a small ferry in a river in northern Bangladesh, leaving at least 36 people dead.
An overcrowded ferry carrying nearly 100 passengers sank in a Bangladesh river after colliding with a motor launch on Friday, killing at least 38 people just a week after another ferry disaster killed 87.
Dhaka, Dec 7 (PTI) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's scheduled India visit from December 19 has been deferred by a month after a request from New Delhi citing her counterpart Manmohan Singh's engagements in Copenhagen climate summit, the government said here today.
Dhaka, Dec 4 (PTI) Bangladesh today denied reports of arrest of ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa from its territory, with Home Minister Sahara Khatun calling it baseless.
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