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(RTTNews) - At least seven people were killed and over 50 others missing after an overcrowded ferry capsized in southern Bangladesh, said officials and local news reports on Friday.
(WOMENSENEWS)--I grew up knowing my country, Bangladesh, was drowning. read more
Dhaka - Authorities on Monday put law enforcement agencies across Bangladesh on high alert ahead of the final verdict in the trial over the assassination of the country's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a minister said. The lawmen have bee...
Dhaka - Bangladesh has set up six special military courts to prosecute over 3,000 paramilitary soldiers allegedly involved in a bloody mutiny in February, media reports said Monday. Two of the tribunals will deal with alleged mutineers at the Dhaka h...
Researchers believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years. The research suggests that human alteration to the landscape, the construction of villages with ponds, and the adoption of irrigated agriculture are ...
Image 1: Rebecca Neumann (in green hat) works with graduate students from the Harvey Lab, technicians from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and local people to install a 20-foot tower in a rice field near Bashailbhog village in Bangladesh. The tower housed a datalogger and battery that powered, controlled and recorded data collected hourly by 18 hydrologic sensors ...
Bangladeshi authorities have stepped up security in the capital ahead of a court verdict expected this week over the murder of the country's founding president more than three decades ago.
( Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ) Researchers in MIT's department of civil and environmental engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years. The ...
When Australian aid worker Danielle Noble first saw conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna in a Bangladesh orphanage, everyone assumed they would die.
BANGKOK (AP) — Ponds dug for fish rearing and storing water for agriculture in Bangladesh are a primary source of arsenic-contaminated drinking water which has caused widespread poisoning in the densely populated South Asian nation, according to a study released Monday.
At first glance, sex slavery in Penn’s backyard and empowerment of women in Bangladesh don’t seem to be related. However, Tuesday night at an event co-hosted by the Penn Women’s Center and the Civic House, two documentaries linked the issues. The directors, Penn graduates Jean Lee and Lauren Hansen-Flaschen, showed that the country needs to take a fresh look at the treatment of women in society ...
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Surgeons in Australia say they successfully separated twin girls from Bangladesh who were joined at the head and are working to reconstruct their skulls.
Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published Sunday.
Australian doctors say conjoined twins from Bangladesh face an arduous recovery after being successfully separated in a 25-hour operation. Two-year-old sisters Trishna and Krishna were joined at the top of the head, requiring delicate surgery to separate their brains.
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Surgeons in Australia say they’ve successfully separated twin girls from Bangladesh joined at the head. A 16-member team worked through the night at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne to separate the girls, Trishna and Krishna, who are almost three years old.
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Surgeons in Australia are working to separate twin girls from Bangladesh who are joined at the head and say that after 24 hours of surgery the operation is progressing well.
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