Australian authorities yesterday urged holidaymakers to evacuate a stretch of the country’s western coastline in the path of a cyclone that has devastated parts of Indonesia and East Timor.

It has been 10 months since the cyclone Amphan hit Bangladesh, but over 600 families have still been living on an embankment at Kashirhatkhola point in Khulna’s Koyra upazila.

Twin earthquakes in Greece last week have left around 900 houses uninhabitable, media reported yesterday, while strong aftershocks continue to strike fear into people made homeless and looking for shelter.

Five people were killed in the severe floods that submerged entire neighbourhoods in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, authorities said yesterday, as residents returned to clean their homes and salvage belongings.

A strong earthquake struck Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila yesterday, with eyewitnesses reporting violent shaking and the US Geological Survey measuring a shallow 6.2-magnitude quake just off the South Pacific island’s coast.

Police yesterday started investigating the allegation by the father of a teenage domestic help Jonia that she was “raped and killed” in the capital's Kafrul.

Locals demonstrate in Dhaka’s Mirpur and Kafrul area for four hours alleging the murder of a teenage domestic help after rape.

Early arrival of winter in the northern district this year adds to the sufferings of poor people, especially those living in the char (landmass emerged from riverbed) areas.

A Jessore court yesterday sentenced five Indian nationals to three years imprisonment in a gold smuggling case.

The Press Information Department (PID) starts online newspaper registration process to check yellow journalism and ensure government benefits for the publishers

A man died when a trawler capsized in Matian haor (water body) under Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj district yesterday.

Two sisters die and their mother feels ill after having “poisonous food item” in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Two people were stabbed allegedly by a suspended district information officer in the town yesterday. The injured are Abdul Hannan, 60,

Police arrested Shafiqul Maola, ameer of Sitakunda upazila unit of Jamaat-e-Islami, from Banshbaria area in the upazila of the district

Eid-ul-Azha is on us and people are leaving Dhaka to spend the holiday with friends and families.The journey home is a joyous occasion where everyone hopes to reach their destination without any glitches, however owing to the road condition a journey becomes a roller coaster ride-not of the pleasant kind but the one that churns your insides and makes you sick.

Thousands of tea garden workers in Sylhet division observed a four-hour work abstention today, demanding a hike on their daily payment.

A man was killed and another injured by their rivals over a land dispute at Dobhagi village in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj yesterday.

A school boy drowned when a boat capsized in the Kharia River in Phulpur upazila of the district yesterday.

A mobile court sentenced two people to one month's imprisonment for arranging marriage of an underage girl at Chandanpat village in Aditmari upazila of the district on Tuesday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed another case against Bera municipality mayor and 14 others on charge of embezzling