3 killed in road accidenst in 3 districts
At least three people were killed and five members of a family were injured in road accidents in Lakshmipur, Bogura and Lalmonirhat on Monday.聽...
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Fires in Gaza are fires in LA
EARLIER on January 8, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and X (formerly Twitter) user post, 鈥楬as Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?鈥� The weird implications about a mythical anti-Semitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel...
Six killed in road accidents in districts
At least six people were killed and seven others injured in road accidents in Faridpur, Dinajpur, Sylhet, Jhenaidah and Magura districts between Saturday night and Sunday.聽聽
Death toll from Munshiganj speedboat accident reaches four
At least four people were killed and six more were rescued as a speedboat and a motorised trawler collided in the Meghna River under Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj on Friday.
Genocide: the new normal
JOE Biden鈥檚 parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but to eradicate, once and for all, Palestinians in Gaza and...
Man killed in road accident in Dhaka
A person was killed in a collision between two motorcycles on Saturday night at Bijoy Sharani, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the capital...
8,543 people killed in road accidents in Bangladesh in 2024: report
The country saw more road accidents and casualties in the immediate past year compared with 2023, a report of the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh revealed on Saturday...
When healing is crime
THE ongoing genocide in Gaza is not simply a human crisis. It is a tale of paradoxes 鈥� of black and white, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil. In Gaza, there is unspeakable cruelty facing incredible courage, ugly betrayals in the midst of relentless sacrifice, constant lies opposed by glaring truths, and the worst forms of oppression against limitless resilience...
6 killed in road accidents in 2 dists
At least six people, including a pedestrian, were killed and six other were injured in separate road accidents in Narayanganj and Rajshahi on Wednesday...
Genocide, resistance and unanswered questions
THE story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomised in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip...
Deplorable absence of effective steps to ensure workplace safety
THE absence of effective mechanisms to contain workplace accidents and consequent death and injuries is deplorable. When hardly there goes a day when workplace accidents do not leave workers dead, the authorities appear nonchalant towards the issue, a reason Bangladesh is considered one of the worst countries in terms of...
Death in workplace accidents continues
At least 758 workers were killed in 639 accidents across the country in 2024, reported Safety and Rights Society on Tuesday.
Mawa toll plaza accident: Legal notice seeks compensation for victims
A lawyer of the Supreme Court on Tuesday sent legal notices to the officials concerned for giving Tk 1,00,00,000 to the families of each victim of the accident at Dhaleshwari toll plaza on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway on December 27, where six people were killed....
Preliminary report on Bangladesh Secretariat fire due Monday
The high-powered committee, formed to probe the fire incident in Bangladesh Secretariat, will submit a preliminary report to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday, said chief adviser鈥檚 deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said on Sunday.
Six killed as bus collides with auto-rickshaw in Sherpur
Six people, including two women, were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw near Vatshala Jorapump in Sherpur Sadar upazila Sunday noon.
Bus driver of Dhaka-Mawa Expressway toll plaza accident arrested
Law enforcement agencies arrested two men, including the driver who reportedly was driving the bus that rammed into three vehicles on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway killing six people on Friday.
Four of family killled after auto-rickshaw, truck collide
Four people of a family were killed after a drum truck and CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided on the Mymensingh-Netrokona highway in Mymensingh鈥檚 Tarakanda upazila Thursday morning.
Ashulia genocide: ICT issues arrest warrants for ex-AL MP Saiful, 4 cops
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for former Awami League lawmaker Muhammad Saiful Islam and four police officials in connection with crimes against humanity and genocide...
Two women, truck driver killed in Munshiganj, Natore road accidents
Two unidentified women and a trucker were killed and nine others were injured in separate road accidents amid dense fog in Munshiganj and Natore districts respectively on early Monday, said the authorities...
3,100 Native Americans died in US boarding schools: report
From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including forced conversion to Christianity...
1 killed, 11 injured in vehicle collisions on Dhaka-Mawa expressway
Multiple-vehicle collisions, caused by dense fog, on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway, on Sunday morning left one person and 11 injured...
Those responsible for road crashes must face justice: adviser Nahid
Information and broadcasting adviser Md Nahid Islam on Saturday said that an impression was pervasive in society that justice was impossible when someone powerful was involved in a road crash....
Powerful people not held accountable after causing road accidents: Nahid
Information and broadcasting adviser Md Nahid Islam on Saturday said that an impression had developed that there was no justice if someone from the higher level of the society is involved in a road accident...
One killed as JU bus collide with motorbike in Savar
A motorbike rider was killed in a collision between the motorbike and a Jahangirnagar University double-decker bus on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar Friday night...
Seven killed in road accidents in four districts
At least seven people were killed in separate road accidents in Sylhet, Bagerhat, Dinajpur and Rajshahi from Thursday evening to Friday.
BDR Carnage: Genocide case filed against Hasina, aides
The families of 22 victims of the 2009 carnage at then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor on Thursday accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her defense adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former army chief Moneen U Ahmed and 55 others of crimes against humanity and genocide...
52 killed in Afghanistan bus accidents
Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed 52 people and injured 65, the Taliban government spokesmen said on Thursday...
Four people killed in Cox鈥檚 Bazar road accident
Four people were killed as a dump truck rammed an auto-rickshaw on Pekua-ABC regional highway at Dhaniakata in Pekua upazila of Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Thursday...
497 killed in road accidents in November: report
At least 497 people were killed and 747 others injured in 415 road accidents across the country in November, said a report published by the Passenger Welfare Association of Bangladesh on Tuesday...
Five people killed in Kishoreganj road accident
Five people, including the driver and four passengers, were killed on Monday morning in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Bhairab, Kishoreganj...