Tuesday, June 13th, 2017
The geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT, JMA and NOAA acquired this image of Tropical Cyclone Mora approaching Bangladesh on Monday, May 29, 2017. Cyclone Mora struck the eastern coast of Bangladesh on May 30. The Category 1 hurricane...
Friday, May 27th, 2016
Cyclone Roanu has claimed over 100 lives in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and has left tens of thousands in need of aid. Officials are looking to the sky for information on flooded areas to analyse the cyclone’s...
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
After a controversial edit or two appeared in Map Maker alongside an uptick in spam, Google decided to halt user submissions while it figured out a way to deal with things. Now the company is starting to...
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
The settlement of longstanding maritime boundary dispute between India and Bangladesh ushers a new horizon in the bilateral relationship between the two countries. Both the countries have hailed the findings of the Arbitral Tribunal and indicated their...
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Officials of the land records and survey wing of Assam and its Bangladesh counterparts conducted a survey to settle various disputes along the international border shared by the two neighbours in Cachar district of Assam over the...
Friday, June 27th, 2014
The government plans to conduct an integrated survey on the use of land to help policymakers frame strategies to curb transfer of arable land to non-farm purposes. The survey is expected to be conducted in the upcoming...
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
The "danger zones" in Asia which are vulnerable to a deadly bird flu have been mapped by scientists. The virus, called H7N9, has infected 433 people mostly in China and has killed 62. The study, published in...
Monday, November 4th, 2013
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has developed a Web-based GIS and digital database to help realize ‘Vision-2021’ objectives to make all the information and data related to the country available to people from home and abroad....
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Researchers at the University of Exeter have developed a new approach to calculate the cost of damage caused by flooding. The method combines information on land use with data on the vulnerability of the area to calculate...
