The PGCB published a notice mentioning a shutdown programme at its 230 kV power transmission line from Aminbazar - Agargaon substation.

According to highly placed sources at the state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), a five-member delegation of Adani Group arrived in Dhaka and held a meeting with the top officials of BPDB today

Says its Director General Ajay Mathur

The quake struck around 5:37 am local time (0037 GMT) at a depth of about 20.5 kilometres (12.7 miles)

Police arrested them with 600 slaughtered birds of different species from the Kakramari Patir Bil area today

The National Herbarium has identified 17 foreign invasive plant species harmful to Bangladesh under Sustainable Forest and Livelihood Project of the Forest Department, seven of which are major, said Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin.

The 46-member Bangladesh team, which conducted rescue operations in the earthquake ravaged Turkey, returned home this evening

A lion died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Dulahazara of Cox's Bazar’s Chakaria upazila early today.

Although the high seas make up more than half of the surface of the Earth and 61% of all oceans, only 1% of international waters are under protection

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said there had been 90 aftershocks

The quake hit the town of Defne at 8:04 pm (1704 GMT) and was strongly felt by AFP teams in Antakya and Adana, 200 kilometres (300 miles) to the north

On Saturday, her paternal aunt Hala and uncle by marriage Khalil Al-Sawadi finally picked up their niece - whom they named Afraa, after her deceased mother

Three people, including a child, were rescued alive. The mother and father survived but the child died later of dehydration, the rescue team said. One older sister and a twin did not make it

"The recent hike in coal prices in the global market has pushed up the generation cost. If the coal price declines, the generation cost will also come down," said Subhash Chandra Pandey, the project director of the Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company (Pvt) Ltd (BIFPCL)

In the letter sent to the director general of Bangladesh Railway, the railway ministry asked for necessary measures to be taken to keep the speed limit of all trains running on this route below 20kmph to prevent the death of wildlife on the railway line on Lawachahra National Park and to ensure they can cross easily

While many international rescue teams have left the vast quake zone, survivors were still emerging from under a multitude of flattened homes, defying all the odds

The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand rose to nine on Saturday as the clean-up continued on the battered North Island and authorities worked to find missing people.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States said Antarctica's sea ice fell to 1.91 million square kilometres this week, the lowest extent since records began in 1979

According to national and international media reports, the electricity generated from the Adani power plant located in Godda, Jharkhand, will cost almost three times more than the electricity produced in the country

With an air quality index (AQI) score of 335 at 9:10am, the capital ranked first in the list of world cities with the worst air quality