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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.
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.
At least 43 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.
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.
(RTTNews) - More than 43 people were killed Friday when a passenger boat carrying nearly 80 passengers capsized after colliding head-on with a ferry in the river Daira in Bangladesh's north-eastern Kishorganj district.
Dhaka - Former Premier Khaleda Zia was re-elected chairperson of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a party spokesman said Friday. TH Khan, chief of the party's election commission, said Zia ran unopposed. ...
Dhaka - At least 44 people died on Friday and many others were missing in a ferry accident in Bangladesh's north-eastern Kishoreganj district, an official said. A boat carrying over 100 passengers sank in Shrigaon river near Fulpur, some 90 kilometre...
All Casualties Reportedly from Passenger Boat Carrying 80 that Capsized after Ferry Collision
DHAKA, 3 December 2009 (IRIN) - Over half of Bangladesh's children are living in poverty and there is widespread deprivation amongst them in the basic areas of food, sanitation and shelter, with limited ability to escape their circumstances, according to experts.
Copenhagen - Brick kilns in Bangladesh, electric-powered bicycles and biodegradable plates are all part of host country Denmark...
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