Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Belying apprehensions, there were no tsunami waves visible in Bangladesh waters till late Wednesday night.
Earlier, Met warnings said that a powerful earthquake that struck Indonesia Wednesday afternoon could send tsunami up to Bangladesh coast after Wednesday midnight.
After a meeting of weather experts, Dhaka Met Office in its latest bulletin at 2am, said “according to the national and international models, a devastating tsunami is unlikely to affect the coast of Bangladesh as the expected time is over.”
The bulletin further said, however 1-2 feet or more height on the top of the normal astronomical tide may occur over the coastal districts of ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
A tsunami may surge up to Bangladesh coast after Wednesday midnight following an earthquake near southern Sumatra of Indonesia, a Met warning said.
“It may generate tsunami wave in the Bay of Bengal of the North Indian Ocean that may reach Bangladesh coast after midnight (tonight),” said a Met Office bulletin in the evening.
A massive earthquake measuring 8.5 on Richter scale hit near southern Sumatra of Indonesia in the afternoon. The earthquake may trigger undersea waves called tsunami in Japanese terms.
If so, it is going to be a re-visitation by the fearful calamity, as several lakh people were killed in many ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus is already in controversy in Bangladesh for his role. Now, possibly he has added a new dimension to his ‘character’ during his just concluded Abu Dhabi tour.
According to newspaper reports, Dr. Yunus, during his Middle East tour met Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, the owner of Dhabi group and proposed him to set up a world-class medical college hospital in Bangladesh. Yunus even proposed the name of the hospital as ‘Nahayan-Yunus Medical College Hospital’.
Many of the Bangladeshi intellectuals are raising eye borrows at such a shameless attitude of the Nobel Laureate, who is continuing ...
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Download Bangladesh President and Chief Advisor Iajuddin Ahmed's speech to the nation - Nov 22, 2006:
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From: BangladeshNews.com.bd
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
The Washington Post on Wednesday carried a story headlined “A new hub for terrorism?: In Bangladesh, an Islamic movement with al-Qaeda ties is on the rise.”
Following is the full text of the article by Selig S Harrison:
While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies is steadily converting the strategically located nation of Bangladesh into a new regional hub for terrorist operations that reach into India and Southeast Asia.
With 147 million people, largely Muslim Bangladesh has substantial Hindu and Christian minorities and is nominally a secular democracy. But the ruling ...
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Launched my Bangladesh News site www.BangladeshNews.com.bd
The site is to provide daily updated Bangladesh News with RSS Feeds. The news are being collected from The Daily Star, a leading bangladeshi news paper.
Why another news site? well... basically i found some "essential" features missing in the present bangladeshi news sites like RSS, News Comments, Searching, Archiving, Trackback, Tagging, del.icio.us and digg.com integration, Google Reader, My MSN, My Yahoo button integration, Mobile Device Friendly XHTML... in short... the modern web features.
Now u can keep yourself updated with the latest happenings in Bangladesh right from your favourite RSS Reader.
If you are a ...
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