Special attention ordered for women, children, elderly people, persons with disabilities and pregnant women

The female Asian elephant suffered broken hind legs and severe abdominal injuries after slipping on a rain-soaked slope

Flash floods triggered by relentless monsoon rains and hill torrents have unleashed a deadly humanitarian crisis across Chattogram and its adjoining districts, leaving so far 43 dead, hundreds of thousands stranded, and vast swathes of homes and cropland under water.

A wild elephant was critically injured after falling from an approximately 200-foot-high hill in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila yesterday.

Experts propose treatment, relocation instead of outright removal

Five rivers still flowing above danger level in Ctg, Sylhet divisions

29 unions inundated after days of heavy rain and upstream flows; rescue efforts continue

Nearly 200,000 stranded in Chakaria, Pekua, Matamuhuri upazilas

Animal slipped on rain-softened slope while feeding; forest officials, veterinarians start treatment

Forest officials send the injured animal to Ramsagar National Park after providing primary treatment

Fish enclosures, salt farms blamed for slowing floodwater drainage

Forest officials say the big cat will remain under watch of 20 trap cameras

Heavy rain yesterday left several parts of Dhaka waterlogged, forcing residents to wade through ankle- to knee-deep water, disrupting businesses and causing vehicles to break down.

Selina Khatun has spent the past week under the open sky after the Jamuna swallowed her only homestead.

Three more children died in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar yesterday as floods, fuelled by incessant rain and relentless hill torrents from upstream, continued to devastate lives and livelihoods across the Chattogram region.

5 major rivers still flowing above danger levels at 8 points

Satkania worst hit as 3.5 lakh residents marooned

At least 1000 have been taken to makeshift centres

Perched quietly on a banana plant in Chattogram town, a barn owl, commonly known as Lokkhi pecha in Bangladesh, looks into the camera with its unmistakable heart-shaped face, pale feathers and dark eyes.

Days of relentless monsoon rain have left hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar fearing more landslides and flooding after at least 13 people were killed in rain-related disasters in the camps this week.