Jeanette Van Tassel was a 24 year old American aeronaut whose balloon ascent over Dhaka's Buriganga River in 1892 was meant to dazzle a city. Instead, it ended in her death after a rescue attempt went tragically wrong, leaving her buried in an unmarked grave in Old Dhaka. More than a century later, a researcher's chance discovery brought her remarkable story back to light.

A teenager, who suffered burn injuries in a fire at a hostel in Wari area of Dhaka, dies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Three young men suffered burn injuries in a fire that broke out at their rented house at Narinda in Dhaka.