Dhaka, April 8 – A Dhaka court on Monday granted seven days’ remand to two sons of Wahed Mansion’s owner in a case lodged by a local resident over the deadly fire in the Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area. Magistrate Rajesh…
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Dhaka highrise fire: Injured firefighter dies in Singapore
Dhaka, Apr 8 (UNB) – Firefighter Sohel Rana, who sustained severe injuries during Banani FR Tower fire rescue operation, died at Singapore General Hospital early Monday. He succumbed to his injuries at 4:17 am ( Singapore time), said Mahfuz Riven,…
2 RU students die after ‘taking excessive liquor’
Rajshahi (Rajshahi University), Apr 7 (UNB) – Two students of Rajshahi University died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday reportedly after taking excessive liquor. The deceased were identified as Muhtasim Rafid Khan, a 3rd-year student of Law department, and…
Bangladesh film comedy star Tele Samad passes away
Dhaka, Apr 6 (UNB) – Renowned actor and comedian Tele Samad died at a city hospital on Saturday. He was 74. Tele Samad breathed his last in the city’s Square Hospital in the noon, said Zayed Khan, general secretary of…
Bus overturns killing 5 in northern BD district of Gaibandha
Gaibandha, Apr 6 (UNB) – At least five bus people were killed and 15 others injured as a bus overturned on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Jummar Ghar area in Gobindaganj upazila early Saturday. Three of the deceased were identified as Riaz…
Police seek 10-day remand for Wahed Mansion owner
Dhaka, April 04 – City’s Chawkbazar Police on Thursday sought a 10-day remand for quizzing two owners of the Wahed Mansion, the centre of devastating Chawkbazar fire, in a case filed about the death of 70 persons. Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) of…
Air pollution killed 123 thousand in BD in 2017: Report
Dhaka, April 4 (UNB) – At least 1.23 lakh people were killed in Bangladesh in 2017 due to indoor and outdoor air pollution, said a new study on global air pollution. Two US based institutes Health Effects Institute (HEI) and…
Man burnt ‘by younger brother’ dies at DMCH
Feni, Apr 4 (UNB) – A man, who sustained burn injuries in an attack allegedly carried out by his younger brother at Sapua village in Dagonghuiya upazila on March 26, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Wednesday night. The…
Sri Lanka: Don’t end death penalty moratorium – HRW
The Sri Lankan government should drop plans to resume executions, which would end an unofficial 43-year moratorium in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 31, 2019, President Maithripala Sirisena said that a date had been set to resume carrying out…
Buriganga boat capsize death toll rises to 5
Keraniganj, April 2 (UNB) –The body of the boatman, who went missing in a boat capsize in the Buriganga river during Sunday night’s storm, was recovered from the river in Barishur area on Tuesday morning. The death toll from the…
3 including female Ansar missing as trawler sinks in Meghna
Munshiganj, Mar 31 – A presiding officer, a policeman and a female Ansar member went missing as a trawler, carrying 19 election officials, capsized in the Meghna River during a sudden storm at Char Hogla in Sonargaon Upazila on Sunday…
Dhaka South Mayor asks for demolishing illegal building
Dhaka, March 31 – Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon yesterday challenged Rajdhani Unnyan Katripakkha (RAJUK) to demolish a building owned by an influential person. “No one in the city believes that any building owned by an…
Lightning kills four in BD as volatile transition to summer begins
Dhaka, Mar 31 (UNB) – Four people, including two minor sisters, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Habiganj, Kishoreganj and Moulvibazar districts on Sunday. In Moulvibazar, two minor sisters died after a thunderbolt struck them at Patanushar…
2 suspected drug traders killed in Cox’s Bazar gunfight
Cox’s Bazar, Mar 31 – Two suspected drug traders were killed in a reported gunfight with police at Moulvibazar in Teknaf upazila’s Hneela union early Sunday. The deceased were identified as Mahamudur Rahman, 28, son of Miah Hossain, resident of…
Dhaka South City Mayor suspects sabotage in fire incidents
Dhaka, Mar 30 – Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon on Saturday directed the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence to ascertain whether the recent incidents of fire were acts of sabotage. He came up with the directive at…
BNP slams govt for ‘failure’ to modernise fire service
Dhaka, Mar 30 – BNP on Saturday alleged that the government has failed to modernise the Fire Service and Civil Defence with modern life-saving equipment as it has only enhanced the capacity of law enforcers to “suppress the opposition”. Speaking…
B Chy for judicial commission to probe fire incidents
Dhaka, Mar 30 – President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Saturday called for forming a judicial probe commission to ensure proper investigations into the recent deadly fire incidents. In a statement, he also voiced deep…
Dhaka highrise fire death toll climbs to 25
Dhaka, Mar 29 (UNB) – The death toll from the devastating fire at FR Tower in the city’s Banani area rose to 25 as six more bodies were recovered from the spot on Friday morning. Talking to reporters at the…
It’s no accident, but killing: BD minister about highrise fire
Dhaka, Mar 29 (UNB) – Terming the Banani fire a killing incident not any accident, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Friday promised that stern actions will be taken against those responsible for it, no matter how…
Dhaka highrise fire survivors narrate tales of horror
Dhaka, Mar 29 (UNB) – It was not possible to see anything as there was a dark wall of smoke everywhere. Within 10 minutes the smoke spread throughout the building making it difficult for people to escape. Exhausted and terrified, Hasina…
Dhaka highrise fire survivors narrate tales of horror
Dhaka, Mar 29 – It was impossible to see anything as there was a dark wall of smoke everywhere. Within 10 minutes the smoke spread throughout the building making it difficult for people to escape. Exhausted and terrified, Hasina Parvin,…
Dhaka high rise inferno: Four probe bodies formed
Dhaka, Mar 28 – Four committees have been formed to investigate the deadly fire incident at a high-rise building in the capital’s Banani commercial area on Thursday afternoon that killed at least 19 people. A six-member probe body was formed…
Dhaka inferno victims either suffocated or fell to their deaths
Dhaka, Mar 28 – None of the victims of the horrific fire at FR Tower were burnt to death – they either suffocated inside the building, or died in the act of trying to escape the fire, falling from the…
Driver confesses to offence in mishap killing BUP pupil
Dhaka, March 28 – Suprobhat Paribahan bus driver on Thursday made a confessional statement admitting his offence in the case filed in connection with the death of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury. Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan…
Seven killed in BD Madaripur bus plunge
Faridpur, Mar 28 (UNB) – At least seven bus passengers, including two women, were killed and 30 others injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Barishal highway at Kolabari in Madaripur Sadar upazila on Thursday noon. The…
Worker dies falling off govt secretariat building in Dhaka
Dhaka, Mar 28 (UNB) – A construction worker died after falling from an under-construction building at the Secretariat here on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Ashraful Islam, 21, son of Joynal Abedin of Nilphamari district. Ashraful fell from the…
At least 19 dead in Banani FR Tower Fire in Dhaka
Dhaka, Mar 28 (UNB) – The death toll from the devastating fire at FR Tower in the city’s Banani area rose to 19 as 13 more bodies were recovered from the spot when the blaze was brought under control on…
Helper ran the bus that killed BUP student creating uproar
Dhaka, March 27 – The bus of Suprobhat Paribahan that ran over a student and sparked heavy protest among the students and locals, was being driven by its conductor. Sirajul Islam, who was designated driver of the bus, detained by…
BD turning into a land of enforced disappearances
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the arch-rival of the ruling Awami League, yesterday accused the government of turning Bangladesh into a state of enforced disappearances. “Numerous leaders and activists of BNP and opposition have been victims of enforced disappearances…The government now…
115 dead after ethnic militia attack central Malian village
Mali, Mar 24 (AP/UNB) — Militia fighters descended on a village in central Mali before dawn Saturday, killing at least 115 people in the latest deadly attack blamed on an ethnic militia, local authorities said. The massacre in the village…