Rajshahi records season’s highest temperature at 40°C
22 MIN(s) ago
Weather
Heatwave grips parts of Bangladesh, no immediate spread expected
3 hour(s) ago
Climate crisis
WDB warns of possible early flood, advises immediate harvest in Sunamganj
21 April 2026, 21:03 PM
Natural disaster
Rajshahi residents struggle amid heatwave and power outages
21 April 2026, 20:07 PM
Environment
Moheshkhali LNG terminal back online after brief disruption
21 April 2026, 13:39 PM
Energy
LNG disruption cuts gas supply by 15% amid ongoing fuel crunch
21 April 2026, 11:46 AM
Energy
5.2-magnitude quake in India’s Manipur jolts parts of Bangladesh
21 April 2026, 09:36 AM
Natural disaster
Info minister blames previous regime’s policies for ongoing energy crisis
20 April 2026, 16:56 PM
Energy
Temperatures set to rise as scattered rain likely across country: Met office
20 April 2026, 15:21 PM
Weather
12kg LPG bottle now Tk 1,940
20 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Bangladesh
Turkey quake causes 300-km-long fissure
The longer of the two ruptures stretches 300 kilometres (190 miles) northeast from the Mediterranean Sea's northeastern tip.
11 February 2023, 16:30 PM
2-month-old rescued as Turkey-Syria quake toll passes 25,000
Rescuers pulled a two-month-old baby and an elderly woman from the rubble on Saturday, five days after an earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria, leaving more than 25,000 dead
11 February 2023, 14:43 PM
WHO chief arrives in Syria's Aleppo
His visit came five days after a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria, killing nearly 25,000 people including at least 3,553 in war-torn Syria alone
11 February 2023, 12:35 PM
Death toll from Turkey-Syria earthquake crosses 24,000
The United Nations World Food Programme appealed for $77 million to provide food rations to at least 590,000 newly displaced people in Turkey and 284,000 in Syria.
11 February 2023, 06:03 AM
Dhaka tops list of cities with most polluted air this morning
India's Delhi and Mumbai occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 251 and 220, respectively.
11 February 2023, 04:09 AM
Long-term air pollution exposure raises depression risk: Studies
Long-term exposure to air pollution raises the risk of depression, according to a pair of new studies published in the JAMA network of scientific journals.
11 February 2023, 03:35 AM
Bangladeshi team rescues girl alive in Turkey
Bangladesh's combined team rescued a teenage girl alive and recovered three bodies from the rubble
10 February 2023, 17:39 PM
Bangladesh sends relief materials to Syria
A cargo plane of Bangladesh Air Force, loaded with tents, blankets, sweaters, dry foods, and medicines, left for Syria tonight
10 February 2023, 15:38 PM
Quake-hit Syria approves aid delivery to rebel-held areas
The Syrian government said it had approved the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas outside its control in the rebel-held areas
10 February 2023, 15:04 PM
Children found alive as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 22,000
Rescuers pulled children alive Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless
10 February 2023, 14:02 PM
Avian death traps around Barguna's orchards
How netting around jujube gardens is spelling disaster for birds
10 February 2023, 07:05 AM
Only Delhi's air quality worse than Dhaka's this morning
With an air quality index (AQI) score of 196 at 9:15am, the capital ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.
10 February 2023, 06:18 AM
Bangladeshi rescue team reaches Turkey
The 46-member team were heading by bus to Adiyaman, around 350km away from the city of Adana
10 February 2023, 05:16 AM
Earthquake death toll tops 21,000 in Turkey, Syria
Relatives were left scouring body bags laid out in a hospital car park in Turkey's southern city of Antakya to search for missing relatives, an indication of the scale of the tragedy.
10 February 2023, 03:35 AM
The death of Tangail’s red hillocks
The cutting of the red hillocks in Tangail continues. With the help of people with political influence, soil traders are allegedly cutting and levelling the hills every day.
9 February 2023, 18:00 PM
19 Bangladeshi students shifted to Ankara
At least 19 Bangladeshi students have been shifted to Ankara from Gaziantep, one of the most affected regions of Turkey, which suffered a major earthquake killing over 17,000 people since Monday.
9 February 2023, 15:18 PM
Ex-Turkish envoy to Bangladesh missing since earthquake
Says current envoy
9 February 2023, 11:29 AM
Earthquake in Indonesia's Papua kills 4
The 5.1-magnitude quake hit around 1.28 pm (0628 GMT) on land just southwest of Jayapura city at a depth of 22 kilometres
9 February 2023, 10:49 AM
Bangladesh considers sending rescue team to Syria
Bangladesh last night sent a 61-member rescue team to Turkey, which has seen more than 15,000 deaths in the earthquake and its aftermath.
9 February 2023, 08:57 AM
What we know about the Turkey and Syria earthquake
Some of the heaviest devastation occurred near the quake's epicentre between Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, where entire city blocks lay in ruins.
9 February 2023, 08:39 AM