Bangladesh officers to not attend 150-year celebration of IMD

Mominul Islam, the appearing director of the Bangladesh Meteorological Division (BMD), on Friday confirmed receiving the invitation from the IMD a month in the past, saying: “The India Meteorological Division invited us to their One hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebrations. We preserve good relations and proceed to collaborate with them.”

“Nevertheless, we aren’t going to the occasion as there may be an obligation to restrict non-essential overseas journeys funded by the federal government,” Islam informed bdnews 24.

He emphasised the common contact between the 2 companies, noting his latest go to to India on December 20, 2024, for a separate assembly with Indian meteorologists.

The IMD invited a number of neighbouring nations — together with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives — and nations from the Center East and Southeast Asia.

A high IMD official informed PTI: “We have now requested all of the nations that have been a part of India when IMD was launched (150 years in the past) to hitch this pageant.”

“Pakistan has already agreed to hitch the occasion, however Bangladesh has not responded.”

Based in 1875 throughout British colonial rule, the IMD was established in response to devastating climate occasions, together with the cyclone that ravaged Kolkata in 1864 and subsequent monsoon-related disasters in 1866 and 1871.

Initially headquartered in Kolkata, the IMD relocated a number of occasions, transferring to Shimla in 1905, Pune in 1928, and finally Delhi in 1944. The division will formally mark its sesquicentennial on January 15, 2025.