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Solar power offers light and hope to Bangladesh villages

PRITOMODDI, Bangladesh (Reuters Life!) - Straw fences and tin roofs: the homes in Pritomoddi village are typical of millions of others across rural Bangladesh, except for one thing: the shiny solar panels that provide electricity, all the time. At the ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, EcoEarth News,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: World Bank

Bangladesh river pollution threatens millions

DHAKA (Reuters) - It was once the lifeline of the Bangladeshi capital. But the once mighty Buriganga river, which flows by Dhaka, is now one of the most polluted rivers in Bangladesh because of rampant dumping of industrial and human waste. "Much of ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, EcoEarth News,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: World Bank

Bangladesh's Rivers Giving and Taking Life Away

With the monsoon rains yet to start, hundreds of families living along the banks of the Padma and other rivers are having to uproot themselves as the powerful waters erode their homes and land from almost under their feet. In Shariatpur, about 240 ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, EcoEarth News,  24 Jun 2008

Bangladesh: Eat potatoes as rice prices soar

POTATOES are not traditionally high on the menu for Bangladesh's 140 million people, but a surge in rice and wheat prices has prompted the government to popularize the humble spud as a substitute food. "Think potato, grow potato and eat potato," was ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, Shanghai Daily,  17 May 2008

Bangladesh wages campaign to sell citizens on the potato

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Potatoes are not traditionally high on the menu for the 140 million people in Bangladesh, but a surge in rice and wheat prices has prompted the government to popularize the humble spud as a substitute food. "Think potato, grow potato ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, International Herald Tribune,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: United Nations

Bangladesh-India trains resume after 43-year break

DHAKA Passenger trains began rolling between Bangladesh and India on Monday, resuming a service suspended more than four decades ago due to a war between India and Pakistan. Amidst singing and dancing, the first “Maitree Express” left Dhaka for the ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, Globe and Mail,  14 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Pranab Mukherjee,  Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury

Dale Steyn proud of his achievements

South Africa paceman Dale Steyn, fresh from being named player of the series in the recent Bangladesh tour, is proud his name is now being bracketed with some of the world's best. "Just to be put in the same bracket like [Muttiah] Muralitharan, Glenn ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, Mail & Guardian Online,  6 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Dale Steyn,  Glenn McGrath,  Shaun Pollock,  Shane Bond

SA set more records after opening heroics

After setting an opening partnership record and declaring their first innings on 583 for seven, South Africa also posted a wicketkeeping record on the second day of the second Test against Bangladesh on Saturday. With two catches behind, wicketkeeper ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, Mail & Guardian Online,  1 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Graeme Smith,  Mark Boucher,  Adam Gilchrist,  Neil McKenzie,  Dale Steyn

SA expecting tough Test series in Bangladesh

South Africa skipper Graeme Smith is under no illusions how tough it will be for his side to win their Test series in Bangladesh but believes they have the firepower to come home with victory. The first of the two-match series starts in Dhaka on Friday, ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, Mail & Guardian Online,  20 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Graeme Smith

Stench of death hangs over Bangladesh village

The stench of death from bloated corpses wafts through the air at Swarankhola, a small fishing village in souther Bangladesh that bore the brunt of a deadly cyclone last week. Three days after Cyclone Sidr swept through the Bay of Bengal, a walk through ...

From AZAD MAJUMDER, Mail & Guardian Online,  18 Nov 2007

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