Shakira grieves with Sidr-hit children video.

Bangladesh beat New Zealand XI in Cyclone Sidr Relief Match

Bangladesh defeated a New Zealand Cricket (NZC) XI by four wickets in a day-night Twenty20 game in Hamilton to pick up their first win of the tour. After the Bangladeshi bowlers had restricted NZC XI to a modest 133, Farhad Reza’s 17-ball 31 propelled the visitors to a win with three overs to spare. Sent [...]

Shakira grieves with Sidr-hit children.

Renowned singer Shakira comforts 11-year-old Sidr-orphan Nipa hearing the child’s ordeal during her Monday’s visit to cyclone-hit areas in Patuakhali. Courtesy: Unicef It is hard to imagine celebrities being emotional. Let alone global mega pop stars. But, when Colombian singer and songwriter Shakira sat in a Dhaka hotel visibly shaken from her visit to Sidr-hit [...]

Cyclone Sidr: 3.5 Million People Homeless (TV Report)

First tiger ‘killed in Sidr’ found

The first carcass of a tiger since Sidr had ripped the Sundarbans asunder, was found floating in a canal there yesterday morning, believed to have been killed in the cyclone. A group of forest guards found the rotting carcass in Ghagramari area under Changmari station of Chandpai forest range while on regular patrol. Forest officials [...]

Devastated by Cyclone Sidr.

(Picture from The Daily Star) A child stands amid wooden planks in the front yard of a house devastated by Sidr at Nishanbaria of Morelganj in Bagerhat. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain (The Daily Star)

Survivors Await Aid Bangladesh Cyclone Sidr Aftermath

ঘূর্ণিঝড় সিডর

ঘূর্ণিঝড় সিডর (অতি মারাত্নক ঘূর্ণিঝড় সিড্‌র, ইংরেজিতে Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Sidr)।ঘূর্ণিঝড় সিডর ২০০৭ সালে বঙ্গোপসাগরে এলাকায় সৃষ্ট একটি ঘূর্ণিঝড়। ২০০৭ সালে উত্তর ভারত মহাসাগরীয় অঞ্চলে সৃষ্ট ঘূর্ণিঝড়ের মধ্যে এটি ৪র্থ নামকৃত ঘূর্ণিঝড়। এটির আরেকটি নাম ট্রপিক্যাল সাইক্লোন ০৬বি (Tropical Cyclone 06B)। শ্রীলংকান শব্দ ‘সিডর’ বা ‘চোখ’-এর নামের এর নাম করণ করা হয়েছে। ১৫ নভেম্বর [...]

New Zealand and Bangladesh may play charity Twenty20 match.

New Zealand and Bangladesh are in discussions to play a Twenty20 charity match to raise funds for survivors of Cyclone Sidr, which devastated Bangladesh last week. Although Bangladesh officials have already said the match will be played in New Zealand on December 23, just before the start of a one-day series between the teams, a [...]

Raise your hands for humanity.

Cyclone Sidr has damaged a lot. Both of wealth, life and alos dream. Most affected people are very poor and they just alive because of there dream. But their dream has breaked up. They loose everything. They loose their house, money, wealth which they have. They lost their dear ones too. They lost their crops [...]