Dhaka – The 70km Chittagong-Rangamati road link has been restored yesterday by connecting it a Sapchhari point, after nine days after the devastating landslides in Chittagong and the three hill districts of south-eastern Bangladesh. With assistance from the Engineering Corps…
London police say that the number of dead or missing in the high-rise apartment building fire is now 79. Police Commander Stuart Cundy gave the new figure during a statement outside Scotland Yard on Monday. The previous figure given was…
Dhaka – BNP on Monday demanded the government immediately declare the hillslide-hit areas of the country as ‘disaster zones’, and stand by the victims with necessary support. The party also demanded that state mourning be announced over the deaths of…
Dhaka – BNP on Monday demanded the government immediately declare the hillslide-hit areas of the country as ‘disaster zones’, and stand by the victims with necessary support. -UNB
Munshiganj – At least 15 people, including a woman, were injured as a fox bit them at Patharghata and Bazarkhola villages in Sirajdikhan upazila on Sunday night. -UNB
Fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower, a social housing block in Kensington, in western London, in the early hours of Wednesday, trapping residents inside as it tore through the building with terrifying speed. “I believe there are 79…
Dhaka, Jun 19 – Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at places of four divisions of the country due to active monsoon for 24 hours of Monday.
Dhaka, June 19 – The rail communications between Sylhet and rest of the country halted on Monday morning due to a hill slide triggered by heavy rainfalls in Lauachhara forest of Kamalganj in Moulvibazar.
Two siblings were killed in a fresh landslide triggered by heavy downpour in Budungpara of Ramgar upazila in the district on Sunday. The identities of the latest two, aged around 10 years and 8 years, landslide victims could not be…
A catastrophic forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 57 lives, officials say. Most died while trying to flee the Pedrógão Grande area, 50 km (30 miles) south-east of Coimbra, in their cars, according to the government. Several firefighters…
Dhaka – The roads connecting the Rangamati the hill town with and port city of Chittagong – badly damaged by last week’s landslide – is likely to be restored from Tuesday, according to sources in the Bangladesh Army.
The Queen has said it is “difficult to escape a very sombre national mood” following tragedies in London and Manchester in recent weeks. Her message comes as residents caught up in the Grenfell Tower fire which killed at least 30…
Rangamati, June 17 – Two fresh bodies of hill track massive landslide victims were recovered from Dumdumia area of Jurachhari upazila in the district on Saturday morning, raising the death toll to 156 in five southeastern districts.
London – London firefighters are continuing the grim search after a high-rise fire that killed at least 30 people as public anger about the blaze continues to grow. -UNB
Md Rafiqul Islam, UNB staff writer Dhaka, Jun 16 – In the wake of recent devastating landslides in Chittagong region taking more than 150 lives, experts predict that the country’s hilly region will face more landslides in future due to…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock at the loss of lives and property in the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in London. -UNB
– A BNP team will go to the landslide-hit Rangamati on Sunday to ‘stand by’ the victims by providing them with relief materials. A high-profile BNP delegation, led by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will visit Rangamati at…
Dhaka – The people of Rangamati hill district, cut off from the rest of the country by roads due to unprecedented landslides, got some relief with resumption of partial supply of electricity and start of launch service, but they are…
The Queen and Prince William visited a relief centre for Grenfell Tower fire victims, while the missing could number as many as 76, the BBC understands. Their visit to the Westway Sports Centre comes after police say some of those…
Moulvibazar, June 16 – Family members of five expatriate Bangladeshis who remain missing since the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in west London are demanding information from the authorities on their loved ones’ whereabouts.
Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the fire that engulfed a west London block of flats, killing at least 17 people. That figure is expected to rise, as fire chiefs do not expect to find…
Rescue workers battled on Wednesday to reach victims of landslides, described as the worst in Bangladesh’s history, as the death toll from the disaster rose to 152. Villagers in some of the worst-hit areas used shovels to try to dig…
The bodies of three more landslide vicitms, including a missing army man, were recovered from different parts of the district on Thursday. With the recovery of three more bodies, the death toll from the deadliest hillslide in the country’s five…
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the massive fire that engulfed a west London block of flats, killing at least 17 people. That figure is expected to rise, as fire chiefs have said they…
At least 17 people died in a massive fire that engulfed a west London block of flats, police said, as they warned that figure could rise further. Earlier, the fire service said rescuers did not expect to find any more…
Dhaka, Jun 14 – BNP on Wednesday alleged that the Prime Minister has gone to Sweden on a ‘pleasure trip’ at a time when hillslides played havoc with people’s lives in four districts.
Bangladesh authorities Wednesday day launched a fresh rescue campaign as the death toll due to landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains climbed to 144 with over 100 of them reported in a remote hill district close to the Indian border.
London – London Ambulance Service says 50 people have been taken to five hospitals following a major fire in a high-rise residential building. The service says a major incident has been declared in the west London after a fire broke…
Dhaka – Ten more people were killed in separate incidents of hillslides triggered by heavy rains in Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar districts early Wednesday. -UNB
Dhaka – The EU Ambassador to Bangladesh, Pierre Mayaudon, expresses his heart-felt sorrow and solidarity for the loss of lives and property caused by landslides in Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban in the early hours of 13 June.