Nepal to export 40MW power to Bangladesh
14 June 2026, 23:55 PM
Energy
Rooppur Nuclear Plant test operations paused over technical glitch
14 June 2026, 18:08 PM
Energy
Rooppur Nuclear Plant unit-1 to add 300 MW to national grid by August: Minister
12 June 2026, 20:16 PM
Energy
IAEA team begins Rooppur inspection as plant enters operational phase
12 June 2026, 14:19 PM
Energy
Russia’s Rosatom suggests floating nuclear power unit for Bangladesh
10 June 2026, 22:39 PM
Energy
Padma Bridge Service Area-2 power bill down from Tk 5.21 lakh to Tk 75,714
10 June 2026, 15:05 PM
Energy
Middle East conflict could push Bangladesh’s subsidy needs up by Tk 42,600cr: Finance minister
9 June 2026, 17:03 PM
Energy
65% people spared from power tariff hike: Info minister
6 June 2026, 21:43 PM
Energy
CNG filling station owners seek commission hike to Tk 13.96 from Tk 8
6 June 2026, 13:12 PM
Energy
BERC withdraws electricity price hike for low-use residential consumers
4 June 2026, 18:58 PM
Energy
Poacher selling tiger skin for Tk 13 lakh arrested in Bagerhat
A poacher was arrested yesterday with a tiger skin from Rayenda Bazar of Sharankhola in Bagerhat.
20 January 2021, 11:50 AM
Cumilla MP threatens DoE official for action against hill-cutting
AKM Bahauddin Bahar, lawmaker of Cumilla-6 constituency, threatened an official of Department of Environment (DoE) with dire consequences after she inspected a hill-cutting project by Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and prepared a damage assessment report.
24 December 2020, 07:39 AM
Facebook video shows Sylhet city councillors having ‘wild bird meat’
A live video showing five councillors of Sylhet City Corporation reportedly eating wild bird meat at a restaurant in Sylhet was posted on Facebook last night.
12 December 2020, 11:57 AM
Watch: Indian officials rescue elephant that fell down a well
Forest officials in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state said on Friday they used a crane to pull an elephant from a well, after working for more than 12 hours to rescue the animal.
22 November 2020, 11:57 AM
‘Protect Sangu-Matamuhuri sanctuary, reserve forest’
Parbatya Chattogram Forest and Land Rights Protection Movement has called upon authorities concerned to take measures to protect the Sangu-Matamuhuri Sanctuary and the Reserve Natural Forest and take action against those destroying the forest.
9 November 2020, 12:35 PM
Wildlife in 'catastrophic decline' due to human destruction, scientists warn
The average size of wildlife populations has plummeted by two-thirds worldwide since 1970 as forests were felled to grow food, green group WWF says, warning that harming ecosystems hikes the risk to humans of infectious diseases like Covid-19.
10 September 2020, 07:45 AM
Jungle cat rescued in Panchagarh
Tea workers rescued a jungle cat, popularly known as Banbiral, from a tea garden in the bordering Shibchandi village under Tentulia upazila in Panchagarh this afternoon.
6 September 2020, 14:46 PM
‘Lost’ elephant shrew found in Africa
For half a century scientists feared that the Somali elephant shrew had vanished from the face of the Earth. No one had seen so much as a whisker.
18 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Siberian tiger kills zookeeper in Zurich
A female Siberian tiger attacked and killed a 55-year-old zookeeper at Zurich's zoo on Saturday, the authorities say.
6 July 2020, 04:41 AM
Tranquil Bogura college campus becomes bird paradise
Once crowded and noisy, the Bogura Govt Azizul Haque College campus remains quiet for months, due to closure during the pandemic. The silver lining? The green grounds becoming a bird paradise.
4 July 2020, 12:48 PM
Fishing at Sundarbans banned from July 1
The forest department has decided to ban the netting of fishes from all rivers and canals in the Sundarbans for the next two months, starting July 1.
29 June 2020, 08:03 AM
Cub handed over to forest department after 7-day wait for mother bear
With seven days gone and no sign of the mother bear, Bhadanta Nandamala Thera, head of Lama Zinamayzu Orphanage in Bandarban, handed over a bear cub to the forest department.
24 June 2020, 15:49 PM
Death of pregnant elephant: Indian tribunal forms committee to take action
Taking cognisance of the death of a pregnant wild elephant at Silent Valley Forest in the southern state of Kerala, India’s National Green Tribunal forms a committee and directed it to submit an action-taken report on the matter.
8 June 2020, 05:24 AM
Sylhet wild animal killings: Hunted just for sport
The Sylhet Forest Division has filed a case accusing two named and eight unnamed persons for killing nine wild animals in Jaintiapur upazila of the district.
30 May 2020, 14:48 PM
9 wild animals killed by villagers in Sylhet
Nine wild animals, including six golden jackals, were killed by villagers at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet.
29 May 2020, 17:09 PM
7ft long dolphin found dead in Halda River
A Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica), over seven feet long, is found dead in Halda River of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila.
24 May 2020, 13:29 PM
West Bengal forest dept to keep tigers away from human settlements after Amphan
As extremely severe cyclone Amphan is set to make landfall, forest authorities in West Bengal, India keep a close watch on the protection of Royal Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans.
20 May 2020, 05:49 AM
Scientists discover a new snake, name it after Salazar Slytherin
A team of Indian researchers are making the fictional world collide with the scientific one by naming a new species of snake they discovered -- "Trimeresurus Salazar" -- after Salazar Slytherin of Harry Potter.
22 April 2020, 05:36 AM
Deserted Thai beaches lure rare turtles to build most nests in 20 years
Thailand has found the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles in two decades on beaches bereft of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemic, environmentalists say.
20 April 2020, 07:03 AM
Dead dolphin found in Halda River
Locals recover a dead Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) from Halda River in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram.
21 March 2020, 19:24 PM