The eastern DR Congo city of Goma was eerily deserted after nearly 400,000 of its inhabitants fled following warnings that nearby Mount Nyiragongo volcano may erupt again.

The eastern DR Congo city of Goma was eerily deserted yesterday, a day after tens of thousands of residents fled after warnings that the nearby Mount Nyiragongo volcano may erupt again.

Even after fears of widespread inundation and extensive damage, Bhasan Char housing and cyclone shelters stood up well against cyclone Yaas, which made its landfall yesterday evening.

Abdul Hamid was a little wary of coming to Bhasan Char with his wife and three children in December last year.

Farmer Kazem Pramanik of Pabna’s Chatmohar, who cultivated two bighas of Boro paddy last year, could not harvest most of the crops as they were damaged by cyclone Amphan and early floods.

A low pressure area is developing over the North Andaman Sea and the adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal which can intensify into a cyclonic storm, the Met office has said.

At least seven people were killed after a 6.0 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s main Java island yesterday, as the country reels from a cyclone disaster in another part of the archipelago.

A new cyclone was barrelling toward Indonesia and threatened to spark more floods and landslides, authorities warned yesterday, as the archipelago reeled from a storm that killed more than 200 people, including victims in neighbouring East Timor.

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.