In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 ...

Twelve years have now passed since Bangladesh, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in history. On April 24, 2013, the ...

While global headlines focus on war, trade, and refugee crises, Bangladesh’s quiet but strategic advances in environmental diplomacy—from climate negotiations to transboundary water and biodiversity ...

Bangladesh’s economic growth is expected to slow to 3.3 percent in the current fiscal year due to political uncertainty ...

DHAKA, April 23, 2025 (BSS) - Bangladesh Coast Guard plays an important role in maintaining security and law and order, ...

Two widespread communications failures in the Northland storm and Otago within two days last week have again exposed the ...

AGRICULTURE has long been a central pillar of economic and social life in Bangladesh, as it has been across much of the world ...

Bangladesh has been spared the worst-case scenario of overlapping disasters. But if heavy monsoon rains saturate the soil and a cyclone strikes soon after, the combined impact could be devastating. Co ...

Climate change is an urgent global reality, disproportionately impacting vulnerable nations. Bangladesh, Haiti, Pakistan, and ...

Bangladesh interim government’s chief advisor Muhammad ... the topography of the region which makes railways and roads vulnerable to landslides and natural disasters. India has been trying to reduce ...

"All expertise related to radiological and nuclear threats is eliminated. All capacity for natural disasters response has been eliminated," agency officials said in a memo after the layoffs.

The ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto has introduced more measures to help foreign travellers should a major natural disaster strike one of the nation’s most popular tourist destinations.