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  • Dolar Mahmud helps Khulna go top (CricInfo)
    Khulna beat Rajshahi in a last-over thriller at home to leapfrog them in the standings. Barisal and Dhaka also made huge strides and along with Rajshahi occupied the second position .
  • Bangladesh to feed millions of cyclone homeless amid warnings of food shortages (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
    The Bangladesh government pledged 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.
  • Donors pledge $550m (News From Bangladesh)
    The Food and Disaster Management Ministry has outlined both short and long term rehabilitation programmes for the cyclone-hit areas, which include repair of damaged roads and houses as well as saving the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, ministry sources said.
  • Bangladesh's mangroves suffer 25-percent damage (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
    Dhaka, Nov 22 (Xinhua) Cyclone Sidr has caused damage to over 25 percent of mangrove forests in Bangladesh's southwestern Sundarbans, the world's largest, The Independent newspaper reported Thursday.
  • 25% of Bangladesh's mangrove forest suffers damage (People's Daily)
    Cyclone Sidr has caused damage to about 25 percent of the mangrove forest in Bangladesh's southwestern Sundarbans, the world's largest, local newspaper The Independent reported Thursday. A preliminary assessment by the Sundarbans fo ...
  • Bangladesh: Cyclone Sidr Situation Report No. 6 (Scoop.co.nz)
    This situation report is based on information received from the Bangladesh Disaster Management Information Centre, the UN Resident Coordinator's Office Bangladesh, the Disaster Emergency Response Group (DER), UN Agencies and OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP).
  • Sundarban’s loss to Sidr assessed at Tk 1,000cr (News From Bangladesh)
    Nearly 26.5 per cent of the 41,14,000 hectare world heritage site has been completely levelled to the ground, he said. The cyclone damaged the flora and fauna on about 30,000 hectares severely and about 80,000 hectares in part, the conservator told New Age on Wednesday.
  • Sidr may imperil food security, warn economists (News From Bangladesh)
    ‘If someone says it will not have a significant effect on food security, I will say s/he does not know the reality of either the country or the national economy.
  • Nearly Half Of Affected Population In Bangladesh Are Children, Says UNICEF (Medical News Today)
    More than four days after Cyclone Sidr ripped through the coastline of Bangladesh, wreaking carnage upon mostly poor coastal dwelling communities, the official death count now stands at just under 3000 according to the latest government figures. However, estimates from other aid agencies put the death toll at more than 5000. [click link for full article]
  • Bangladesh: Cyclone Sidr Situation Report No. 5 (Scoop.co.nz)
    This situation report is based on information received from the Bangladesh Disaster Management Information Centre, the UN Resident Coordinator's Office Bangladesh, the Disaster Emergency Response Group (DER), UN Agencies, UN OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) and media sources.