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View all search resultsJubilant looking crowds waved flags, peacefully celebrating including some dancing on top of a tank, as a source close to the embattled leader said she had left her palace in the capital for a "safer place".
Pertamina New & Renewable Energy (NRE) has officially signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) for a 500 megawatt solar power plant project in Moheshkhali and other potential areas in Bangladesh. The MoU was signed by Abul Kalam Azad, CPGCBL managing director, and Fadli Rahman, Pertamina NRE acting CEO, at the Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Intercontinental in Dhaka on Monday (15/7). The signing was also witnessed by Nelwin Aldriansyah, Pertamina NRE chief financial officer.
The storm crossed the coastal regions of Bangladesh's Mongla port and the adjoining Sagar Islands in India's West Bengal state with wind speed measuring up to 135 kmph (about 84 mph), the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
UNHCR is coordinating with its local partners and authorities to gather more details on the group - who appeared to be made up of women and children - and to organise aid, senior communications assistant Yanuar Farhanditya told Reuters,
The humble structure -- a single-room shed with walls and a roof clad in tin -- is a new community hub for the minority, who have enjoyed greater legal and political recognition in recent years but still suffer from entrenched prejudice.
In its annual response plan to the crisis, the United Nations appealed for $852.4 million to provide desperately-needed assistance this year to the mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and their host communities.