FLOODING from incessant rain caused by the recent depression in the Bay of Bengal has remained somewhat unchanged while the government’s disaster management and relief efforts are barely visible. Four of the five north-eastern rivers that were flowing above their danger marks further swelled, as the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre reported in its last cycle on June...
Heavy rainfall and disruption in waterways communication across the country following a deep depression formed in the Bay of Bengal, caused huge sufferings of people throughout Thursday.
The unloading of imported liquefied natural gas at a floating regasification unit in the Bay of Bengal was suspended on Wednesday as the sea remained rough with an intensifying low, prompting flash flood warnings for parts of Bangladesh...
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Tuesday issued signal number three for all four maritime ports of the country after a low pressure was formed over the northwest Bay of Bengal in the morning...
A stone-laden vessel sank in the rough waters of the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Sandwip in Chattogram on Thursday morning...
At least 51 fishermen were injured in an attack by robbers in the Bay of Bengal while fishing on Wednesday night.
The low pressure hovering over the southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to trigger rain all over Bangladesh over the four days starting from today, warned the Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Tuesday...
Bangladesh Navy on Tuesday detained 214 Rohingyas travelling to Malaysia illegally by a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal.
The government on Wednesday imposed a seasonal fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal and riverine water bodies for 58 days, aiming to protect marine biodiversity, ensure safe breeding and sustain fish stocks...
All the heads of governments or states under the seven-nation Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation have given assurances of joining the 6th BIMSTEC Summit scheduled for the first week of April, said BIMSTEC secretary general Indra Mani Pandey on Tuesday...
Lieutenant General (retd) Mohd Aminul Karim, a distinguished military strategist and academic, has joined the Cosmos Foundation and the Bay of Bengal Institute as Honorary Board Member, a move expected to further strengthen the organisations’ contributions to strategic policy research and regional discourse...
Adviser for the ministries of environment, forest and climate change, and water resources Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Wednesday said that the government had finalised the integrated management plan for the Swatch of No-Ground Marine Protected Area in the Bay of Bengal...
Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Monday urged the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation to prepare a roadmap to double regional trade...
Cyclone Fengal killed at least 19 people in India and Sri Lanka and caused flooding in Tamil Nadu state and the Puducherry region after crossing India’s southern coast from the Bay of Bengal on Saturday, reports South China Morning Post...
Maritime ports in Bangladesh have been instructed to keep distant warning signal number two hoisted as Cyclonic Storm Fengal intensifies over the Southwest Bay of Bengal...
THE Naf River is a natural marvel, both magnificent and strategic, forming a vital boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar’s Arakan State. As it runs from the fall of Khayaparir Tong to the...
Speakers, including diplomats, researchers and a politician, at a geopolitical conference in Dhaka on Monday criticised the ‘selective’ approach of global powers as regards human rights issues, accusing them of maintaining a ‘double standard’...
Politicians, academics and officials at a geopolitical conference in Dhaka on Sunday called for a free and open Indo-Pacific without dominance of any individual country while...
The interim government chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, on Saturday called upon all concerned to create a new civilisation, saying that the present civilisation had become disastrous for humankind.
The third edition of the three-day ‘Bay of Bengal Conversation’ begins at a hotel in Dhaka today with diplomats, academics, researchers, policymakers and journalists from home and abroad...
A low-pressure area is likely to develop over the southwest Bay of Bengal and adjacent regions within the next 36 hours, says the meteorological office...
A low pressure area is likely to form over the Southwest Bay and adjoining area in 36 hours commencing 9:00am on Saturday...
The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist cautionary signal No 3 as the Cyclonic storm ‘Dana’ over Eastcentral Bay of Bengal and adjoining area moved West-Northwestwards.
A low pressure area has formed over Southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining area...
An eight-member probe committee has been formed to investigate the fire in two ships carrying liquefied petroleum gas at Kutubdia point of the Bay of Bengal that occurred early Sunday, officials said.
The monsoon is set to complete its withdrawal from Bangladesh today, said the Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Sunday, officially noting the end of the most important season...
A Bangladeshi fisherman was killed and his two fellows were injured as the members of the Myanmar Navy opened fire on them while fishing in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.
A brief relief from the sweltering heat is likely amidst a low pressure moving inland from the west-central Bay of Bengal, prompting the Met Office to issue a heavy rainfall warning...
A low pressure formed over the Bay of Bengal sparked heavy rain and landslide fears in Bangladesh, prompting authorities to issue warnings asking people to remain alert.
Eight fishermen went missing as a trawler with 13 fishermen sank in the estuary of the Bay of Bengal at Shibchar in Charfashion upazila of Bhola district on Friday...
