Two lighter vessels capsize in the Bay of Bengal near the Noakhali’s Bhasanchar coast in two separate incidents.

A lighter vessel carrying around 1,500 tonnes of cement clinker capsized near Bhasanchar of Noakhali in the Bay of Bengal yesterday

All crew members of a capsized lighter vessel, carrying 1,100 tonnes of wheat, were rescued early yesterday from the Bay of Bengal near Sandwip.

The bodies of three tourists who went missing in the Bay of Bengal yesterday, are recovered from at Banshbaria beach of Bay of Bengal under Sitakunda of Chittagong.

Bangladesh is not expecting much help from foreign donors as it forges ahead with plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited island, an undertaking that does not yet have a timeline, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, says in an interview.

Winter temperatures continue to feel warmer and warmer in Bangladesh. Compared to last year, this day is almost one degree warmer.

Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted distant Cautionary Signal No 1 owing to the depression that formed over the Bay of Bengal.

Nearly 1.26 lakh acres of khas land emerged in the Bay of Bengal over the last 10 years, Land Minister Shamsur Rahman tells parliament.

Four tourists go missing in two separate incidents at Moinot Ghat in Dhaka's Dohar and Cox’s Bazar.

Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s bazar, Mongla and Payra are advised to keep hoisted distant warning signal number two as a depression formed in the East Bay of Bengal has intensified into a tropical cyclone named Maarutha.

At least 15 people are feared dead as two Indian fishing trawlers sank in Bangladesh territory of the Bay of Bengal due to inclement weather on Saturday.

The Rohingya refugees who arrived in Malaysia after being stranded in the Bay of Bengal a year ago must be released from detention, says United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The cyclonic storm Roanu is named by Maldives. “Roanu” means “coir rope” in Maldivian (Dhivehi).

At least 20 people have been killed in Chittagong, Bhola, Cox's Bazar, Noakhali and Patuakhali as Cyclonic storm Roanu makes its impact across the country. It crossed Bangladesh in the evening, leaving a trail of devastation.

A lighter vessel carrying around 1,400 tonnes of cement clinkers capsizes in the Bay of Bengal after it was hit by another lighter vessel.

A lot has been said about whether to eat Hilsa fish during this Pahela Baishakh. But how much do we know about this interesting, often enigmatic fish Bangalis are so proud of? Do we know why we never find any Hilsa without eggs, why they die as soon as they are taken out of water?

Hilsa, our national fish, has become an inseparable part of Pahela Baishakh (Bangla New Year) celebrations, but experts say the practice has no roots in a thousand years of Bengali tradition.

A cargo plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal near Sonadia island, about nine kilometres off Cox's Bazar coast, yesterday morning, killing three of its four crew members and injuring the other.

A privately-chartered cargo aircraft has crashed into the Bay of Bengal killing one person. Two others are missing while another has been rescued in critical condition. The crash site is about half a kilometre off Cox’s Bazar’s Nazirtek, at the estuary of the Bay and Bakkhali river.

BIMSTEC is no longer a member-driven organisation, and in this context, the Secretariat becomes vital in driving the organisation.