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The state government

The government has for the first time called for international help to rehabilitate the victims of cyclone Aila.

Food Minister Abdur Razzak on Thursday urged development partners and NGOs at a meeting on post-Aila rehabilitation activities at his office to come out with assistance.

Biswabrata Goswami
TAMLUK, 9 JUNE: Still struggling to come out of the trauma of the devastation caused by the cyclone Aila, people residing in the coastal belts in Midnapore East district are in the grip of a diarrhoea epidemic.

KOLKATA: The Left Front Committee in West Bengal has demanded that the May 25 cyclone destruction in three districts be declared a national disaster.

Sabyasachi Roy

Pakhiralay, June 7: A sense of relief swept across the Sunderbans after two weeks of living on the edge when the hungry tide that everyone had feared came without its appetite for destruction.

The impact of climate change is worldwide. For Bangladesh they are most critical as large part of the population is chronically exposed and vulnerable to a range of natural hazards. Now, the human suffering and cost to development is massive to the country and its population who are victims of human induced Global warming.

The severely degraded river systems will be reverted to their past grandeur whatever the cost, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, declared on Friday.
She pledged assistance of her administration to multidimensional researches into modes of combating environmental disasters.