Natural and man-made disasters cost $92 billion (81.24 billion euros) in 2015, compared with $113 billion in 2014, the Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re said in report Wednesday.

DHAKA - Bangladesh on Tuesday signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with a consortium of two Chinese firms for the installation of some $1.56 billion coal-fired power p

Within a span of three years, household food insecurity has fallen by over two-thirds in Bangladesh, according to a report revealed here today. The report titled "State of Food Security and Nutriti

LONDON – Asia has the largest number of people exposed to natural disasters, but African countries are the most vulnerable to them, largely because of political instability, corruption, poverty and

The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR) on Sunday urged the concerned authorities to take necessary steps to stop plying of vessels through the Shela River in Sundar

Hundreds of Bangladeshis began a four-day march Thursday from the capital to the Sundarbans in a last-ditch protest against plans to build a coal-fired power plant near the World Heritage-listed fo

The Asia-Pacific region "continues to be the most disaster prone part of the world in 2015" and needs a risk-sensitive development approach, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here Thursday.

Hundreds of Bangladeshis began a four-day march on Thursday from the capital to the Sundarbans in a last-ditch protest against plans to build a coal-fired power plant near the World Heritage-listed

The government plans to release genetically modified (GM) potato, reportedly capable of resisting late blight disease, during the upcoming season.