- 475 killed in 452 road accidents in October
- BCB set to launch NCL T20 to hone local players' skill
- Gold price hiked by Tk2,823 per bhori
- Local elections should precede 13th JS poll after needed reforms: Dr Tofail Ahmed
- Astronauts Sunita, Butch suffer from food crisis in Space
- Debutant Priyanka Gandhi wins Wayanad by-election
- Erdogan hails ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu
- Jubo League activist seen firing on student protesters arrested
- Putin vows more tests of nuke-capable missile fired at Ukraine
- Long-term plan needed for Rohingya repatriation: Foreign Affairs Advisor
- Electing President through direct votes under consideration
- 3 arrested for racist comment at Liga Clasico
- India affirm control as Jaiswal, Rahul ensure 218-run lead
- Dengue claims 10 more lives
- 'Tarique Rahman’s leadership was unique in mass uprising'
- Sonakshi Sinha shares her love story, recalls being the first to say "I Love You" to Zaheer Iqbal
- Gold jewelry valued at Tk 3.8 million seized in Chuadanga
- Plots will increase if elections are delayed: Tarique Rahman
- 3 women footballers accorded grand reception in Rangamati for winning SAFF Championship
- Smuggled goods worth over Tk1.65cr seized at Sylhet-Sunamganj border
Vice president threatens to have president of Philippine assassinated
The vice-president of Philippine Sara Duterte has threated the president of the country Ferdinand Marcos Jr. publically, reports AP. While answering to a question about her security, the 46-year-old lawyer on Saturday suggested that there was an unspecified plot to kill her. The...
Floods hit thousands of houses in northern Philippines
Floodwaters reaching more than four metres high swamped thousands of houses in the storm-battered northern Philippines on Tuesday after rivers overflowed following heavy rain and a dam release. Typhoon Man-yi drenched swaths of the Philippines over the weekend, swelling the Cagayan River and...
Typhoon Man-yi hits Philippines, evacuations underway
Philippine authorities ordered all ships to return to shore and told people in coastal areas to evacuate as Typhoon Man-yi approached the country, with forecasts predicting it would grow stronger before hitting land on Saturday. Man-yi will be the sixth major storm to pound the Philippines in...
Philippines on highest vigilance as Usagi nears
The Philippines raised its highest storm alert and evacuated thousands of people on Thursday, as Super Typhoon Usagi barrelled towards its already disaster-ravaged north. Packing sustained winds of up to 180 kilometres (112 miles) an hour, Usagi is set to smash onto the main island of Luzon in...
Thousands evacuated in Philippines as new typhoon approaches
Thousands of people were forced to leave 2,500 villages in the northern Philippines on Monday as another typhoon threatening a region already devastated by floods and landslides from three storms in less than a month. Typhoon Toraji was forecast to blow over the mountainous Luzon region, where...
Philippines makes companies pay to tackle plastic scourge
Long one of the worlds top sources of ocean plastic, the Philippines is hoping new legislation requiring big companies to pay for waste solutions will help clean up its act, reports AFP. Last year, its Extended Producer Responsibility statute came into force -- the first in Southeast Asia to...
14 dead, thousands evacuated as tropical storm batters Philippines
Philippine rescuers waded through chest-deep floodwaters Wednesday to reach residents trapped by Tropical Storm Trami, which has killed 14 people and forced thousands to evacuate as it barrels toward the east coast. Torrential rain has turned streets into rivers, submerged entire villages and...
Storm “Trami” killed at least 82 people in Philippines
Tropical Storm Trami blew away from the northwestern Philippines on Friday, leaving at least 82 people dead in landslides and extensive flooding, reports AP. To tackle the situation and save thousands of terrified people, who were trapped, some on their roofs, authorities deployed more rescue...
Philippines races to assist stranded as storm death toll grows
On Thursday, rescuers in the Philippines rushed to reach residents stranded by flooding in the hard-hit Bicol region after heavy rains from Tropical Storm Trami submerged villages and resulted in more than 20 deaths. Schools and government offices were shuttered across the northern Philippines...