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/ 22 February 2008
South Africa pacemen Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel took two wickets apiece to help the tourists rip through the Bangladesh top order, leaving the hosts on 85 for five at lunch on the opening day of the first Test on Friday. After winning the toss and opting to bat, Bangladesh’s hopes of making a good start were dashed almost immediately when Steyn caught and bowled promising opener Tamim Iqbal.
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/ 20 February 2008
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, and the second will begin on February 29 at Chittagong.
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/ 14 February 2008
A dispute over the number of black players in their squad could hamper South Africa’s performance on the tour of Bangladesh, captain Graeme Smith said on Thursday. ”It hasn’t been great what’s happened back at home,” Smith told reporters on his arrival at Dhaka airport.
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/ 4 December 2007
The United Nations says the humanitarian crisis caused by last month’s cyclone in Bangladesh is much worse than previously thought, with more than two million people in need of immediate life-saving assistance. ”As more information becomes available, an even grimmer reality is being revealed,” the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 29 November 2007
The final toll from Cyclone Sidr was likely to be more than 4 000 as hundreds of fishermen are still missing in Bangladesh, the army said on Thursday. Armed forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Faruque Hussain, giving updated figures, said 3 256 bodies had been found and that 880 people were missing and feared dead.
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/ 23 November 2007
With a United States naval ship stationed off Bangladesh’s coast, US military officials prepared on Friday to deliver much-needed food and medical supplies to the hundreds of thousands that Cyclone Sidr left homeless and hungry, a top US military commander said.
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/ 22 November 2007
The Bangladesh government pledged on Thursday to feed more than two million people left destitute by Cyclone Sidr amid warnings the country faces acute food shortages after the storm ravaged crops. The pledge comes as officials and relief agencies struggle to get desperately needed rice, drinking water and tents to remote villages.
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/ 21 November 2007
A week after a cyclone killed nearly 3 500 people on the Bangladesh coast, relief workers said on Wednesday they had been able to get food, medicine and other provisions to almost all those affected. A relief operation by civil authorities and the army, navy and airforce was at full force after roads blocked by fallen trees has been cleared.
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/ 20 November 2007
Relief workers and the Bangladesh military on Tuesday reached the last remaining pockets of the country devastated by a cyclone that killed nearly 3 500 people along the Bay of Bengal. It has taken five days to gain access to the hardest-hit areas in an operation involving helicopters, planes and boats.
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/ 20 November 2007
Urgently needed supplies of food, water and medicine were on Tuesday nearing people in remote areas of Bangladesh where a devastating cyclone has left millions homeless and thousands dead. With roads now cleared of hundreds of trees that had blocked aid convoys, officials said relief was finally starting to get through to the most inaccessible areas.
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/ 19 November 2007
Four days after Cyclone Sidr killed more than 2 500 people in Bangladesh, rescuers were struggling to reach isolated areas along the country’s devastated coast and give aid to millions of survivors. ”The tragedy unfolds as we walk through one after another devastated village,” said relief worker Mohammad Selim in Bagerhat, one of the worst-hit areas.
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/ 19 November 2007
Nearly four days after Bangladesh’s worst cyclone since 1991 killed at least 2Â 350 people, rescuers were struggling to reach some devastated areas and officials feared the toll could climb sharply. Media reports and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society chairperson Mohammad Abdur Rob said the death toll had already surpassed 3Â 000, and was likely to go up.
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/ 18 November 2007
Grieving relatives and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a super cyclone that battered Bangladesh as the death toll neared 1Â 900 on Sunday. Military ships and helicopters were trying to reach thousands of people believed stranded on islands in the Bay of Bengal and in coastal areas still cut off by the devastating storm.
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/ 18 November 2007
Grieving survivors and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a cyclone that battered Bangladesh as the death toll reached over 2Â 200 on Sunday. Mohammad Abdur Rob, chairperson of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, said the overall death toll from the cyclone could reach 10Â 000.
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/ 17 November 2007
Military ships and helicopters were trying on Saturday to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed nearly 1 100 people and pummelled impoverished Bangladesh with mighty winds and waves. Cyclone Sidr smashed into the country’s southern coastline late on Thursday night with 250km/h winds that whipped up a 5m tidal surge.
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/ 16 November 2007
At least 629 people have died in Bangladesh as a result of severe Cyclone Sidr, it was officially stated on Friday. The cyclone roared ashore with winds of more than 250km/h, and the death toll was expected to rise further, with about 1 000 fishermen reported as missing.
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/ 16 November 2007
A cyclone killed more than 250 people in Bangladesh, triggering a 5m-high water surge that devastated three coastal towns with a combined population of 700Â 000, officials said on Friday. ”The death count is rising fast as we get more information from the affected districts,” an official at the Food and Disaster Ministry said.
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/ 16 November 2007
A super cyclone packing winds of 250km/h battered Bangladesh coasts overnight, killing over 200 people, local officials said on Friday. They said hundreds of people were injured and scores were missing, they said, but Cyclone Sidr was now losing strength and rain had mostly stopped.
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/ 15 November 2007
A super cyclone was bearing down rapidly on Bangladesh’s south-west coastline on Thursday, ripping off tin roofs from houses and uprooting trees, as hundreds of thousands were evacuated to safer ground. London-based Tropical Storm Risk said Cyclone Sidr was a category-four storm, packing winds of 250km/h.
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/ 15 November 2007
The outer reaches of an expected severe cyclone buffeted Saint Martin’s island off Bangladesh’s coast on Thursday, as tens of thousands of mainlanders were evacuated to shelters and high land, officials said. Strong winds with a speed of about 80km/h started slamming the island at about noon.
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/ 14 November 2007
Thousands of people fled their homes along Bangladesh’s southern coast on Wednesday as volunteers with loudspeakers went from village to village warning that a severe cyclone was approaching from the Bay of Bengal. ”Where shall I go?” said a woman in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh’s main sea resort, holding her child in one hand.
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/ 16 October 2007
At least 100 people were feared drowned after a crowded ferry capsized on Tuesday in southern Bangladesh, officials said. The ferry — with about 250 people on board — was caught in a tropical storm in the Shariatpur district, nearly 85km south of the capital, Dhaka, officials said.
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/ 23 September 2007
More than 100 Bangladeshi fishermen were missing after at least 15 fishing boats sank in a storm in the Bay of Bengal, witnesses and officials said on Sunday. The Chittagong port authority issued an international maritime alert advising all ships and fishing boats to remain in shelters until further notice.
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/ 21 September 2007
Bangladeshi police broke up a protest march by hundreds of Muslims after Friday prayers over the publication of a cartoon that they say offended their religion. Bangladesh suspended publication of Alpin, a weekly satire magazine of leading Bengali daily Prothom Alo, and its publishers apologised.
A man was killed and about 300 people were injured on Wednesday as a student protest that began at Bangladesh’s Dhaka University spread to other institutions in the city and across the country, witnesses said. The victim, a rickshaw-puller, was caught in clashes between police and students at a university in the north-western city of Rajshahi.
The death toll from floods in Bangladesh rose to 65 on Friday as relief workers struggled to reach millions of people stranded in their villages without food or clean water, officials said. Twenty-three of the country’s 64 districts in the north, centre and east were at least partly submerged by the flooding caused by snow melt and heavy monsoon downpours.
Floods in Bangladesh have killed at least 38 people and left 4,5-million others displaced or marooned in their homes in north and central Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday. People crammed into 600 relief centres or sought higher ground to escape rising water levels, said Shafiqul Islam, a spokesperson for the Food and Disaster Management Ministry.
Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, is the world’s fastest growing major city, drawing 300 000 to 400 000 mostly poor migrants annually, a World Bank study said. These migrants provide critical manpower for the city’s industries and services, but also put pressure on the city’s infrastructure, public services and habitable land, said the report.
Rescuers dug out 20 more bodies and continued searching for more on Tuesday as heavy rain caused havoc in the Bangladesh port city of Chittagong, officials said, as the country’s total flood-related deaths neared 130. Authorities have engaged excavators to remove the mud to get the bodies exhumed quickly.
Rain and landslides have killed at least 68 people in Bangladesh as early monsoon showers swept the country, officials said on Monday. Heavy rains triggered landslides that buried hillside homes, killing 55 people and leaving scores of others missing on Monday in the port city of Chittagong, police and witnesses said.
Bangladesh crumbled to 58 runs for five wickets on Saturday after India’s four top batsmen smashed confident centuries to build a massive first-innings total in the second and final Test. Opener Dinesh Karthik hit 129, captain Rahul Dravid made 129 and Sachin Tendulkar was unbeaten on 122 when India declared their innings at 610-3.
Opener Wasim Jaffer hit an unbeaten 138 to help India pile up 326 without loss at the close of play on the opening day of the second and final Test against Bangladesh on Friday. Resuming on 175-0 after the tea break, opener Dinesh Karthik retired hurt on 82. Captain Rahul Dravid, who joined Jaffer, was unbeaten on 88.