- Highest 10 dengue patients died in 24 hours
- Students of 7 colleges to continue movement
- Two units of Matarbari power plant go offline
- Around $15b smuggled annually from Bangladesh: TIB
- “Enemy aircraft” penetrates Israeli airspace: Report
- Committee formed for July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum
- India out for 263 in third Test, lead New Zealand by 28
- Govt forms 19-member committee to transform Gono Bhaban into a museum.
- Security beefed up around Jatiya Party office
- UN nature summit approves Indigenous consultative body
- Japan urges 200,000 people to evacuate due to landslide and flood risks
- Thousands of spectators throng Suhrawardy Udyan on opening day of Jatra Festival
- Yunus asks players to write about their hopes, demands
- Hezbollah launches drone after firing rocket on Israel
- Ferry services on Aricha-Kazirhat route suspended
- Ethiopian Airlines set to touch Dhaka’s runway on Sunday
- 14 criminals from Geneva Camp arrested in Sylhet-Habiganj-Brahmanbaria operation
- Pennsylvania challenge of Elon Musk's $1M-a-day voter sweepstakes moves back to state court
- Met office predicts mainly dry weather over country
- Mud-caked volunteers clean flood debris in a Spanish town as authorities struggle to respond
Japan urges 200,000 people to evacuate due to landslide and flood risks
Authorities in western Japan have urged nearly 200,000 people to evacuate due to the risk of landslides and floods caused by the remnants of a tropical storm. The Japan Meteorological Agency said warm, moist air... was causing heavy rainfall with thunderstorms in western Japan partly due to...
Flashfloods in Spain kill at least 95
Spainbraced for a heavier human toll on Wednesday after 95 people died in flash floods that launched muddy waters through towns, tossed cars and wreaked transport havoc, reports AFP. Rescuers were expected to find more bodies in the European countrys deadliest flood in more than 50 years and...
64 dead in eastern Spain flash floods
At least 64 people have died in eastern Spain following devastating flash floods that swept away cars, transformed village streets into rivers, and disrupted rail lines and highways, marking one of the worst natural disasters the country has experienced in recent memory. Emergency services in...
At least 51 died in flashflood in Spain
Authorities said that at least 51 people died after torrential rain caused flash floods in south-eastern Spain, reports BBC. However, the exact number of casualties is impossible to know at this stage, Carlós Mazón, the president of the country said. The rescue work is underway, president...
Flash floods sweep away cars, disrupt trains and leave several missing in Spain
Several people were reported missing by Spanish authorities after flash floods swept cars through village streets and disrupted rail service in large areas of eastern and southern Spain on Tuesday, reports AP. Rushing mud-colored waters caused havoc in a huge arc of the European country, running...
Bashundhara Shuvosangho distributes relief among flood victims in Keshabpur
Bashundhara Shuvosangho has distributed relief materials among the flood-affected, poor, and helpless people of Keshabpur upazila in Jessore district. The relief materials were handed over to the recipients at an event held at the Keshabpur Press Club auditorium on Monday morning. Khandaker...
Waterlogging crisis in Jashore: Two months of flooding affects 200,000 residents
Residents of the low-lying areas in Keshabpur and Monirampur upazilas of Jashore have been stuck in floodwaters for the last two months due to silt buildup in the rivers. To reduce flooding, silt is being cleared from the Bilkhukshi 8-vent sluice gate, and irrigation systems are being used to...
Bashundhara Shuvosangho distributes food relief among flood victims
Bashundhara Shuvosangho on Wednesday distributed food items among the victims of the recent devastating floods in two villages of Nalitabari upzila, Sherpur. Each food package included rice, lentil, cooking oil, potato, onion and puffed rice. The recipients in Baghber and Balurchar villages...
Sri Lanka shut schools as flood hammers the capital
Sri Lanka closed schools in Colombo on Monday as heavy rains caused widespread flooding across the island nation, reports UNB. Over the weekend, heavy downpours devastated several regions, flooding homes, fields, and roads. According to the countrys Disaster Management Center, three people have...