Dhaka is the worst-affected city in the world by deadly urban heat, according to a study published by The Guardian yesterday.

Residents of Rangpur city had to wade through knee to waist-deep water yesterday, as the roads and alleys of most areas were inundated, following a deluge of rainfall overnight. City dwellers blamed the poor drainage system for the situation.

Seven more people were killed in Oman as heavy winds and rain swept through the country after tropical storm Shaheen made landfall, the national emergency committee said on Monday on its official Twitter account.

Chattogram’s river police recovered another dead dolphin from Ramdas Munsir Hat area under Hathazari upazila, along the Halda river, this morning. Only three days earlier, corpse of a dolphin was recovered from the same spot.

Thirteen environmentalists, rights activists, and prominent citizens have issued a letter to Sylhet divisional commissioner, demanding the protection of ancestral and customary land of the Khasi people living in Daluchhara and Belkuma Khasia Punji -- located in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila -- from forced plantation projects.

At least three people were killed in a lightning strike in Islampur upazila of Jamalpur this afternoon.

Department of Environment (DoE), Chattogram fined 13 people Tk 32.48 lakh for damaging hills at Panchlaish area of the port city today.

Tropical Cyclone Shaheen bore down on Oman on Sunday, prompting authorities to delay flights to and from the capital, Muscat, and to urge residents to evacuate coastal areas.

A huge fire destroyed or damaged more than 200 houses and businesses on the Honduran island of Guanaja on Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee for safety and ravaging the tourism-dependent resort, relief authorities said.

Around 80 villages have been flooded in at least six upazilas of Jashore and Khulna districts due to incessant rain last month.

Chattogram’s river police recovered a dolphin from the Barua Para area of Modunarghat, along Halda River this morning. Halda River is known for its natural breeding of carp-like fishes in South Asia.

Nearly one-fourth of a 410-metre-long embankment along the Gorai river, on Haripur union side of Sadar upazila, has collapsed in only four years after construction.

After yesterday noon’s rainfall, two-thirds of Khulna city had to deal with severe waterlogging. The rain inundated the city and made residents suffer immensely.

Getting to school as a boy growing up in Singapore in the 1970s could be soggy affair at times.

A strong earthquake measuring 5.8 shook Greece's largest island Crete on Monday and one person was killed when a church dome collapsed, authorities said.

At least two fishermen were killed as Cyclone Gulab, packed with a wind power of 90km per hour, made landfall between the coastal areas of adjacent Indian states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh tonight, officials said.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram today fined 16 people Tk 32.3 lakh for damaging hills in the port city.

Lakhs of people in southern coastal districts of India’s eastern state of Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh were evacuated ahead of cyclone Gulab’s landfall this evening.

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely at many places in the country as the deep depression over East Central Bay and adjoining Northeast Bay intensified into cyclonic storm ‘Gulab’.

A sudden bout rainfall triggered traffic chaos in different parts of the capital. With vehicles stranded on roads for a long lime, it caused quite the sufferings to commuters.