Island Girl: A broken dream
2 HOUR(s) Accidents and Fires
Three killed as auto-rickshaw, covered van collide head-on in Gazipur
Our Correspondent, Gazipur
5 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
Woman dies after being hit by state minister’s car
Our Correspondent, Bogura
5 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
Bus drags motorcycle nearly half a km after Jashore crash; 2 killed
Our Correspondent, Benapole
4 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
Woman dies in Bogura after collision involving state minister’s SUV
Our Correspondent, Bogura
4 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
3 killed as bus rear-ends covered van in Feni
Our Correspondent, Feni
4 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
Benapole land port worker succumbs to workplace injury in Dhaka
Our Correspondent, Benapole
4 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
Police constable killed after pickup overturns in Madaripur
Our Correspondent, Shariatpur
3 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
Two fishermen drown, two missing as trawler capsizes off Cox’s Bazar
Staff Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar
3 September 2026 Accidents and Fires
3 killed as two buses collide in Mymensingh
Our Correspondent, Mymensingh
2 September 2026 Accidents and Fires

Fire at Mohammadpur slum, 35 shanties gutted

At least 35 shanties are gutted in a fire that broke out in slum of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area. No casualties were reported.
23 December 2015

Miscreants set fire to temple

Unidentified miscreants set fire to a Kali temple at Mohishjora village under Kokdohora union in Kalihati upazila of the district on Monday
22 December 2015

Ctg edu board staff held with yaba

Police arrested two people, including a staff of Chittagong Education Board with 20,000 pieces of Yaba tablets in Ctg
22 December 2015

Paddy price fall upsets Jhenidah farmers

The prices of paddy have fallen sharply in absence of buyers in the local markets, much to the frustration of the growers in the district.
22 December 2015

Ctg fire guts shops, warehouses, home

Fire gutted five tin-roofed shops, a house and three warehouses of jhut (scrap fabrics from garment industries) in
22 December 2015

‘Khaleda still loyal to Pakistani forces’

The Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee strongly criticises BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s recent statement on the number of martyrs during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.
22 December 2015

Construction worker dies from electrocution in Ctg

A construction worker died after being electrocuted at Kala Miah Bazar under Bakalia Police Station in Chittagong city yesterday.
21 December 2015

Road crash kills three of family

Four people, including three of a family, were killed and 20 others injured when a bus hit a truck after the bus's one of the tires got punctured at Chinakohora Point on Dhaka-Pabna Highway in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna yesterday.
21 December 2015

One dies in Motijheel fire

A doctor died during a fire at a multistory building at Dilkusha in the capital's Motijheel yesterday.
21 December 2015

Fire at Motijheel building, 1 dead

One person dies after a fire at a building in Dhaka’s commercial hub Motijheel.
21 December 2015

Criminals kill health worker, loot house

Criminals killed a housewife and took away cash and gold ornaments in Dakkhin Kacharipara area of the district town on Saturday night.
20 December 2015

Two killed, 60 injured in road accidents

Two people were killed and 60 others injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday and on Saturday.
20 December 2015

Bangladesh static in Human Development Index

Bangladesh’s position remains unchanged in the Human Development Index, according to the 2015 Human Development Report launched by UNDP.
20 December 2015

Minor fire at Dhaka airport

Fire breaks out at an office room of the second floor of Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Believed to have been caused by an electrical malfunction, the fire is said to have caused insignificant damage.
20 December 2015

8 hurt in boiler explosion in Ashulia

Eight people, including a child, were injured in a boiler explosion at a garment factory in Pollibiddut Bus Stand area of
19 December 2015

Woman fatally run over by train

A woman was killed as an intercity train ran her over at Modhaya Haroa point of Nilphamari municipality on Parbotipur-
19 December 2015

Road crashes kill four

Four people were killed and another was injured in road accidents yesterday.
19 December 2015

Demo in London to save Phulbari

Bangladeshi expatriates and several environmental groups in England have demonstrated in London protesting the open-pit coal mine project in Phulbari of Dinajpur district.
19 December 2015

Worker killed as iron plate falls on him Dhaka

A construction worker is killed as an iron plate fell on him while he was working in an under-construction building site in the city’s Kathalbagan area.
19 December 2015

Four die in road accidents

Four people were killed and another was injured in road accidents in the country yesterday.
18 December 2015