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Floodwaters eddy down to centre, recede from north
Diarrhoea breaks out, death toll now 329; capital reeks of sewage
Floodwaters continued to roll down to the centre of Bangladesh, swamping much of the capital and pushing the official death toll to 329 yesterday as river waters started receding from northern and northeastern
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World responds to flood plights
UN to appeal to int'l community; Britain provides Tk 110cr; IDB 1.2cr; ADB forms monitoring unit; govt plans to assess damage with top donors
The world has responded to the humanitarian plight of about 30 million flood victims in Bangladesh with the United Nations (UN) set to appeal to the international community for urgent assistance.
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Living by selling out everything
Kamrangirchar dwellers part with their cattle, poultry to get by
In Kamrangirchar, close to the capital, the flood has not only made poor old women like Asiya Begum homeless, but it is forcing them to sell their last resources such as cattle and poultry for survival.
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Diarrhoea epidemic breaks out
Diarrhoea outbreak in the flood-affected areas has reached an epidemic proportion although the health ministry is yet to admit it.
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150km embankments under deluge threat
Tk 120cr needed for damage repair
Flooding so far has caused an extensive damage to 700 kilometre of embankment that will need Tk 120 crore for repair, said an assessment by water resources ministry yesterday.
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12 lakh farmers marked for help
Agriculture loss now estimated at Tk 2,291cr
Agriculture ministry yesterday decided to provide 12 lakh flood-hit farmers with seeds, saplings, fertiliser and pesticides to recover damages in the agriculture sector.
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Dhaka gets digital map next year
A digital map of Dhaka City through aerial photography will be available from early next year and it aims to help utility agencies better coordinate their work and take up disaster management schemes.
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Manikganj reeling
The district headquarters and all seven upazilas of the district have been flooded with thousands forced to leave their inundated houses and lakhs still marooned, all facing miseries due to crisis offood
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4 killed in a span of four hours in city
Local criminals stabbed dead a Dhaka University (DU) student in Demra while separate gangs gunned down a grocer at Kalyanpur, a garment employee in Mohammadpur and a local criminal in Badda in a spanof
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Stuck on a wet tin roof
Perched on the rooftop of her submerged house in Bachhila, Mohammadpur, 60-year-old Jobeda Begum stares at the raging waters of the river Turag since floodwaters swamped the area 15 days ago.
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PM monitors flood round the clock
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has started round-the-clock monitoring of overall flood situation through a monitoring cell opened at her office for properly guiding rescue and relief operations across the
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India play for survival today
Riding on a bonus point earned against Pakistan in Sunday's defeat, India will get their last shot at reaching the Eighth Asia Cup final when they take on hosts Sri Lanka today.
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Top Iraq official gunned down
4 killed in suicide bomb; mortar attack on ministries
Four people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a US base in northern Iraq while two women shot dead in Basra.
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Cellphone cos strive to maintain network
Cellular phone operators are struggling to keep alive their networks as the raging floods forced to cut off power supply to many base stations mainly in the country's eastern and northern zones, industry
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GK Project
HC declares re-tender illegal
The High Court (HC) yesterday declared illegal the water resources ministry's controversial decision to re-tender the installation of a massive irrigation system in the Ganga-Kobadak (GK) project area.
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48 out of 90 DCC wards flood-hit
The raging flood has affected 48 out of 90 wards in Dhaka as the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has started its own relief programme yesterday.
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Abducted Ctg businessman rescued
Police yesterday rescued a businessman and a woman, who was used as bait, from the grip of abductors from Demsa village in Satkania upazila.
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US war brought terrorism to Iraq Says UN envoy
The US-led invasion brought terrorism to Iraq and caused more problems than it solved, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in an interview published yesterday by the Austrian daily Salzburger Nachrichten.
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Hasina meets Monmohan
Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina yesterday met Indian Prime Minister Monmohan Singh in New Delhi and discussed relations between the two next-door neighbours as well as regional developments.
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