Flash flood, caused by the incessant rains over the last week, and onrush of waters from across the border, submerged the vast areas in haor areas of the district leaving an unspecified number of people maroored by the deluge.

The flood affected are Karimganj, Katiadi, Nikli, Hossainpur, Kuliarchar, Bajitpur, Itna, Tarail, Austagram, Pukundi and port town Bhairab Bazar.

The auto industry's recent proposal of voluntaryfuel economy labeling will not work.

Even though man is the best creation by the Almighty, yet humanity is solely responsible for recent crisis of climate change.

Even though man is the best creation by the Almighty, yet humanity is solely responsible for recent crisis of climate change.

A quarter of the country

The country is bracing for possible major flooding in the next two days with heavy rain forecast for neighbouring India set to swell its rivers to dangerous levels.

Director of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) Saiful Hossain yesterday said downpours expected in north-eastern India likely to cause problems for parts of Bangladesh.

Floods displaced thousands of families yesterday as rescuers braced for another day of heavy rains, our correspondents and agencies reported.

Forming multi donor trust fund in the name of aiding Bangladesh in facing risk of climate change is an evil strategy, speakers said at a press conference yesterday.

Rejecting "Climate Change Strategy and Action for Bangladesh" of the government, they said the strategy paper was prepared according to the advice of the local representatives of the World Bank.

Equity and Justice Working Group (EquityBD) organised the press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU) in the city.

A total of 123 persons died from AIDS and attacked 365 persons in the year 2007 in Bangladesh and a total of 21 lakh persons died by AIDS in the world. Among them 17 lakh were adults and 3 lakh 30 thousand were children during this period. It was disclosed in a workshop at a local hotel arranged by Gubo Bandar Health Shava with the divisional officials of Family Planning and Welfare Ministry on 9th August. In this workshop also told that 3 crore 35 lakh people are living with the HIV germs in the world. Those who takes drug injection they were the most valnerable.

Top Olympic athlete Yao Ming is the UN Environment Programme's first-ever Environmental Champion, UNEP announced today.

Basketball megastar Yao Ming, who plays for the National Basketball Association (NBA) and for China's Olympic team, is one of the most famous athletes in the world today. He is a national icon in China and carried the Olympic Flame into Tiananmen Square on 6 August, as well as being his country's flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony.

The coastal region of Bangladesh is already perspiring with different types of natural disasters. Bangladesh is situated at the interface of two contrasting settings with the Bay of Bengal and the North Indian Ocean to the south and the Himalayas to the north. This gives the country the life giving monsoons, on one hand, and the catastrophic disasters like tropical cyclones, storm surges, floods, droughts and erosion, on the other.