Kurigram to face scheduled power cuts for seven days over grid upgrade
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BMD forecasts five days of rain, heavy downpours
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Wildlife
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Climate crisis
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26 July 2026, 20:34 PM
Natural resources
Rare slow loris critically injured by electrocution in Moulvibazar
26 July 2026, 12:37 PM
Wildlife
Strong winds and rain lash China after Typhoon Noul makes landfall
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China
BAPA makes 7 proposals to solve Dhaka’s waterlogging crisis
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Environment
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Energy
13-hour load shedding every day in parts of Sylhet city
Sales and Distribution Division of Sylhet Power Development Board (PDB) yesterday (July 24, 2022) published a new schedule of load shedding which shows some areas in Sylhet city won’t have electricity for 13 hours a day.
25 July 2022, 06:51 AM
Dhaka’s air quality “moderate” today
Dhaka's air quality is said to be in the “moderate” zone today.
25 July 2022, 05:52 AM
Corruption, import-dependent policies among reasons cited for current power crisis
National Committee for Protection of Oil-Gas and Mineral Resources, Electricity Sector and Ports has identified nine specific reasons for the current situation in the power sector.
24 July 2022, 17:38 PM
Dhaka’s air quality “moderate” today
Dhaka’s air quality witnessed a marked improvement this morning (July 24, 2022), after remaining “unhealthy” a day before.
24 July 2022, 05:16 AM
Floods over, not the struggles
It has been around a month since flood waters began receding across Sylhet division.
23 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Dhaka losing its greenery
Dhaka has lost around 56 percent of its green spaces over the last three decades. In 1989, this mega city had 12,745 hectares of vegetation, which came down to just 5,599 hectares in 2020, a new study has found.
23 July 2022, 02:30 AM
Japanese regulators okay releasing waste water from Fukushima nuclear plant to ocean
Japan's nuclear regulators have approved a plan to release into the ocean water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, the government said on Friday.
22 July 2022, 16:46 PM
60 rescued wild birds released at National Botanical Garden
The forest department in a drive rescued 60 wild birds from Mirpur Birds Market in Dhaka today (July 22, 2022) and later released them at the National Botanical Garden.
22 July 2022, 13:11 PM
Mild heatwave to continue: Bangladesh Met office
No relief is in sight as the mild heat wave sweeping through some districts of Bangladesh is likely to continue, said the weather department.
22 July 2022, 08:51 AM
Another dolphin found dead in Halda
Another dolphin was found dead in Halda river in Chattogram yesterday.
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Landslide took away everything we had’
A two-decimal land at the bottom of a hill.
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
282 killed in weeklong rains, flashfloods in Pakistan
The death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods jumped to at least 282 in Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, as the latest downpours continued lashing the impoverished country.
21 July 2022, 15:46 PM
7 brick kilns fined Tk 21 lakh in Narayanganj
A Narayanganj court today (July 21) fined four directors of seven brick kilns Tk 21 lakhs for operating in municipality area flouting rules and not having required environmental clearance.
21 July 2022, 13:55 PM
Govt officials directed to spend 20% less on vehicle fuel
In a latest move to promote austerity in operations, the finance ministry today (July 21, 2022) directed government officials to lower expenses for fuel and lubricants of vehicles issued to them by 20 percent.
21 July 2022, 13:27 PM
World’s oldest male giant panda euthanised at 35
An An, the world's oldest male giant panda under human care, was euthanised on Thursday at age 35, the equivalent of 105 years for humans, said the Hong Kong theme park where he lived.
21 July 2022, 05:29 AM
Emergency services battle wildfires across southern Europe
Emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain's hottest day that the fight against climate change needed to be stepped up.
20 July 2022, 16:41 PM
Green activists, civil society members urge govt to cancel forestland reserved for BFF training centre
Green activists, environmental rights organisations and civil society members urged the government to cancel the forestland allotted to Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) in Cox’s Bazar’s Khuniyapalong reserve forest.
20 July 2022, 16:09 PM
Govt to cut power use by 25% at public offices
The government has decided to reduce the use of electricity by 25 percent at all its offices to save power for future.
20 July 2022, 15:49 PM
“Unplug appliances to save power”: France urges holidaymakers
The French government urged citizens on Wednesday to make the effort to save energy in the face of record high oil and gas prices, including by cutting wifi routers when heading off on holiday.
20 July 2022, 15:37 PM
Dolphin found dead in Halda river
A dolphin was found dead in Chattogram's Halda river today (July 20, 2022).
20 July 2022, 15:03 PM