Boro rice fields in low lying areas of numerous districts in the country’s northwest have been damaged by a sudden rush of water in the region, raising worries of losses due to reduced yields.

Jet fuel price has shot up again from last week – for the 13th hike in 17 months – causing severe blow to the already struggling Bangladeshi aviation industry.

A probe body formed by the Ministry of Water Resources yesterday visited four haors in Sunamganj where farmers suffered crop losses due to early flash flood.

Paramount Textile Ltd (PTL) today said it will form a joint venture company with Dynamic Sun Energy Private Ltd to establish a 100 megawatt solar power plant in Pabna sadar, a northwest district.

Farmers of Sunamganj, Kishoreganj, Netrakona and Sylhet grow Boro on around 4 lakh hectares every year, but the government has been spending money on the vital levees that protect them on a piecemeal basis.

More than 250 houses, including a government primary school, were damaged and some crops were damaged as a Nor'wester swept over Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria early today.

The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) forecasted a flash flood likely to hit haors in three north-eastern districts after a heavy rainfall between April 10 to 17.

Farmers in the northern region of the country are fearing huge financial loss in this Boro season because of flash floods.

Once upon a time, the turbulent Bangshi river used to be one of the important rivers in central Bangladesh. However, the river is rapidly losing all its might and glory due to the filling up of its banks, mindless pollution and illegal grabbing.

A Habiganj district judge's court has stayed the restoration order of Sutki river.

Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecasted rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind at one or two places in the country during the next 24 hours commencing around 9am today.

The country has generated 14,001 megawatts of electricity which broke all the records of electricity production in the country past.

Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecasted rain or thundershowers in three divisions in the next 24 hours.

The government invests a significant amount of public money to construct and repair levees in the haor areas of the country’s north-eastern districts to protect the Boro harvest from the flash floods.

Scientists have discovered microplastics in live human lungs for the first time.

Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (BELA) today served a legal notice against six ministries, one commission and 14 other government bodies over illegal stone crushing in Sunamganj.

National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) Chairman Dr Manjur Ahmed Chowdhury today said that all rivers surrounding the capital will be pollution-free before the next birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Three days into the acute gas crisis in Dhaka, gas extraction has started from three wells in the largest gas field Bibiana.

The Ratnai Bridge on Lalmonirhat-Mughalhat road in Durakuti area of Sadar upazila has turned risky as it has tilted on the west end.

Around 99% of the global population breathes air that exceeds World Health Organization's air quality limits, with people in low and middle-income countries being most exposed to pollution, according to the UN agency's latest database.