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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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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