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Two construction workers dies and two others are injured from electrocution in the city’s Badda area.

A fire that broke out at Brac Centre in Mohakhali of Dhaka is doused half an hour after it originated.

Father of five members of a family, who were burnt in a gas stove fire at their Uttara house, succumbs to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Police arrested an accused in a case, filed for killing Kazi Habib, in Sultanpur of Sadar upazila in Moulvibazar early

Two minor boys drown in a pond in Sandwip upazila of Chittagong. Villagers find the bodies floating on a pond and rescued the duo, locals say.

At least a dozen people are detained from a demonstration in Dhaka’s Shahbagh demanding a raise in the age limit for entering government service.

Two children, aged one and 14 years old, succumb to injuries hours after a gas fire burns five of a family in Uttara of the capital. While their nine-year-old brother has been released after primary treatments, the parents are stated to be in critical condition.

A Dhaka court yesterday gave Criminal Investigation Department (CID), for the tenth time, two more months to complete the investigation in a case filed over killing of Maj Gen Abul Manzur in 1981.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized a container full of foreign cigarettes, worth Tk 4.7 crore, yesterday at Chittagong

Today is the fourth death anniversary of Ali Ahsan Bacchu, former senior official of Pragati Industries Ltd. A milad and a doa mahfil will be held after the Jumma

Police recovered 30,500 pieces of Yaba tablets and arrested four people, including three of a family, in this connection

Land is fittingly called the original source of all material wealth. Every year hundreds of cases are filed with the courts over land related issues. Feuds,

Speakers at a research dissemination yesterday stressed the need for easier and better access to legal issues for the marginalised and socially excluded

A hundred and one student leaders of the 1980s yesterday criticised filing of cases against The Daily Star Editor and

Names of different hotels, travel agencies, and some bank officials have come up in the investigation of the recent ATM card scam case, said a high official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said yesterday.

Authorities decide to open the book fair an hour early on weekdays from now on to minimise losses after yesterday’s temporary close compelled by rain.

Surrounded by water, some stalls at the Suhrawardy Uddyan seemed like an alienated island. Ceilings became damp and water kept trickling down from top and light holders. Fire service staffs were trying to pump out the logged water while workers of the stalls remained busy sorting out the wet books.

Japan will continue to subsidise new industrial projects built with energy efficient and environment friendly technologies provided by the country, representatives of Institute for Global Environment Strategies (IGES), Japan, said yesterday.

An action plan to provide better treatment to those suffering from road crash injures was finalised yesterday after a two-day intense discussion among government officials, WHO, doctors and representatives from various development organisations.