Strongest storm in decades Meteorologists said Mocha was the most powerful storm since Cyclone Sidr, which hit Bangladesh's southern coast in November 2007, killing more than 3,000 people and ...

RAJESHWER, Bangladesh (CNN)-- More than a month after Cyclone Sidr tore across Bangladesh killing more than 3,000 people and affecting at least 8.7 million, photojournalist John Cobb visited badly ...

"Cyclone Mocha is the most powerful storm since Cyclone Sidr," Azizur Rahman, the head of Bangladesh's Meteorological Department, said. In November 2007, Cyclone Sidr had hit the southern coast of ...

The project took on a renewed sense of urgency in November, when Cyclone Sidr swept through Bangladesh, killing thousands. Haque, who was making his first return visit to his homeland in 18 years, was ...

In fact the effects of Cyclone Sidr in 2007 and Cyclone Mahasen in 2013 are still being felt today. Parts of Bangladesh are also at risk from earthquakes. With 80% of the land lying on a flood ...

World Bank vice president Praful C Patel Saturday said Bangladesh needed more assistance from the international community than it received to recover from the damage left by mega-cyclone Sidr.

In 1991 Cyclone Marian killed 140,000. In 2007 Cyclone Sidr flattened 565,000 homes, but a warning system and fortified shelters helped limit deaths to 3,500. Today restoring coastal mangroves and ...

PEOPLE in Oxfordshire can help rebuild homes or provide new shelters for hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis, who are victims of Cyclone Sidr, say Oxfam bosses. Bangladeshi families are ...

While the programme was touring the country by river to produce episodes in rural locations only accessible by boat in November 2007, Cyclone Sidr struck. The production headed to where the ...

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Bangladesh’s Cyclone Sidr; Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma; and the South Asian quake and tsunami, for which CNN garnered a 2005 DuPont Award. In addition to her duties for CNNI, Ramos has ...