Unabated erosion by Teesta, Dharla, Brahmaputra and Dudhkumar has devoured eight primary schools in the last one month and 25 more schools are on the verge of extinction in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts.

Teesta river in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat and Brahmaputra, Dharla and Jamuna in Sirajganj are flowing over the danger-level due to rain and water from upstream. Many other rivers’ water-levels were also rising.

The water level in the Brahmaputra river crossed the danger level due to rain and water from the upstream.

Low-lying areas of the country’s northern and north-central regions  have been submerged by floodwater, causing immense sufferings for  people.

Water of Jamuna river has crossed danger level worsening flood situation in Bogura and Sirajganj.

The port city once again went under water as yesterday’s overnight torrential rain, coupled with tidal surge, created waterlogging in its low lying areas, wrecking havoc on citizen life.

Heavy rain last night left large areas of Chattogram city under water causing immense suffering to city dwellers as low-lying areas are submerged in knee-to-waist-deep water.

At least seven people, including four teenaged boys, were killed and two others injured as lightnings struck in Dinajpur town and Chirirbandar upazila yesterday afternoon.

Seven people including four teenagers died in separate lightning strikes in Dinajpur today.

Scores of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft battled a forest fire that broke out early Monday on the southern part of Greece's Evia island, less than two weeks after an inferno decimated its northern part.

At least 22 people were killed and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee.

The mighty Padma has rapidly been swelling over the last few days, flooding vast shoal areas of Pabna Sadar and Ishwardi upazilas.

Rescue crews continued Sunday to look for dozens of people missing in Tennessee after flooding from extraordinarily heavy rains left washed away homes and left at least 10 dead.

Hurricane Grace pummeled Mexico with torrential rain on Saturday, causing severe flooding and mudslides that killed at least eight people after becoming one of the most powerful storms in years to hit the country's Gulf coast.

After taking heavy pounding from different cyclonic storms such as Sidr, Aila, Fani, Amphan and most recently Yaas, Kuakata National Park by the sea beach lost three quarters of its land and forestry in little over a decade’s time. 

Thousands of people living in low-lying areas of different upazilas of Sirajganj have been marooned as the mighty Jamuna river has continued to swell.

Flooding in Faridpur has worsened as Padma river’s water levels at Goaland Point rose by 8centimeters in 24 hours till this morning.

Around 20,000 people have been marooned at five upazilas in Lalmonirhat as the low-lying and char areas of the Teesta river basin were flooded due to rain and onrush of water from the upstream in India today.

Tremors shook buildings late on Wednesday in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes, a Reuters witness said, a few days after a devastating earthquake killed almost 2,200 people across the Caribbean nation and injured thousands more.

Fresh areas of the country are being inundated as two major rivers -- Padma and Jamuna -- continue to swell due to a combination of onrush of water from upstream and heavy downpours.