DHAKA, Aug 22 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- The floods in the greater Noakhali region in southeastern Bangladesh have affected millions of people and displaced tens of thousands. The worse-than-usual seasonal ...

The rate of natural accretion in the Noakhali region is about 90 ha per year since recent past and the same rate can be expected to continue in the coming years. Lands reclaimed (upto 1985 ...

Over a few weeks, thousands were killed and hundreds of women raped as mobs went on a rampage in the remote Noakhali region. Media reports described how thousands of minority Hindus were forced to ...

The speakers also criticized past governments for failing to fulfil their promises regarding the creation of Noakhali Division. The previous government assured us of this division, but instead, they ...

Nirmal Kumar Bose was his secretary in the mid-1940s and accompanied Gandhi to Noakhali, as his "companion and interpreter". Following Direct Action Day in August 1946, the region had seen untold ...

When Noakhali’s Muslims told Gandhi that killings and forced conversions in the region did not add up to a large number, and that only a small minority of the Muslim population had joined in the ...

Farmers in Noakhali region are worried because of low price of aman in local markets, despite achieving bumper productions of the paddy this year. Pranab Bhattacharya, deputy director of ...

DHAKA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- The floods in the greater Noakhali region in southeastern Bangladesh have affected millions of people and displaced tens of thousands. The worse-than-usual seasonal ...