Natural disasters, including cyclones and devastating floods, triggered internal displacement of 12.5 million people in South Asia in 2022 and Bangladesh, India and Pakistan were the most affected ...

Kurigram, intersected by five inter-border rivers – the Brahmaputra, Dharla, Teesta, Dudhkumar and Jinjiram – and sixteen other rivers, is prone to frequent natural disasters such as floods. This year ...

(Read about the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded.) The deadliest natural disaster of all pummeled Bangladesh in 1970, when Cyclone Bhola slammed into the country’s low-lying coastal areas ...

Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone ... "Sometimes we become weak after natural disasters. We kneel down on our knees. Then we stand up again, holding our head up high, because we have ...

Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladesh's flood and cyclone-prone areas will now receive advance warning of an impending natural disaster through an alert on their cell phones, a ...

Bangladesh is another beautiful place that can never seem to catch a break from natural disasters. This country, an almost totally flat nation bordered in the south by the Bay of Bengal ...

Bangladesh has put in place fiscal mechanisms, social protection programs, and financial instruments to respond to natural disasters. While the country has adequate resources for recurrent disasters, ...

Natural disasters displaced 32.3 million people in India between 2015 and 2024, with floods and storms accounting for the ...

Household loss and damage due to natural disasters saw nearly tenfold increase in 2015-2020 compared to that in 2009-2014, says a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Prime Minister Sheikh ...