Tropical cyclone Mocha tonight intensified into a severe cyclonic storm over South East Bay of Bengal and gathered more speed moving northwards at a speed of 11km per hour in the last six hours, according to the Indian Met Department

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Khulna administration has kept 409 cyclone centres ready to protect people from the wrath of Mocha, which is expected to intensify into a very severe cyclone by tomorrow.

A total of 746 shelters have been kept ready in Bhola to deal with Cyclone Mocha

Mocha is very likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm later today

At 6:00am today, it was centered about 1,295km south-southwest of Chattogram port, 1,220km south-southwest of Cox's Bazar port, 1,265km south-southwest of Mongla port, and 1,225km south-southwest of Payra port

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Mocha may turn into a cyclonic storm today and it may make landfall in Cox’s Bazar and Myanmar coasts on Sunday, the Met office has said.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) yesterday asked the government to take necessary measures to save Labandha river in Gazipur from pollution and encroachment.

Five farmers were killed and another was injured by lightning strikes in Magura and Rajbari districts today..In Magura, three farmers were killed and another was injured as a thunderbolt struck them at Charchaugachi field in Sreepur upazila of the district. .The deceased were identif

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh apologised to the locals of Dhanmondi for the felling of trees on Satmasjid Road

The met office said Mocha is likely to slightly lose its strength before making landfall on May 14

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Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has predicted rain or thundershowers at one of two places over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions.

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted distant cautionary signal number 1 after the depression over the southeast Bay and adjoining areas intensified into a deep depression

The low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal has now turned into a well-marked low pressure, and could intensify further, the Met office said today

The number of tigers in the Sundarbans is expected to rise due to successful conservation efforts in the world’s largest mangrove forest, said officials concerned.

The maximum temperature in the country was recorded at 41 degrees Celsius in Chuadanga today, said Rakibul Hasan, senior observer of Chuadanga First Class Weather Observatory.

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