An eight-member probe committee has been formed to investigate the fire in two ships carrying liquefied petroleum gas at Kutubdia point of the Bay of Bengal that occurred early Sunday, officials said.
Patients were evacuated after a fire broke out at Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital鈥檚 medicine building warehouse on Sunday morning.
Two tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas, anchored near Cox鈥檚 Bazar鈥檚 Kutubdia in the Bay of Bengal, caught fire early Sunday.
Lebanon urged the UN on Friday to demand an 鈥榠mmediate鈥� ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, nearly three weeks into a war that has killed 1,200 people and displaced more than...
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in cities around the world over the weekend calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon as the war in the Palestinian territory neared the one-year mark...
THE death of three people in a cylinder explosion at a restaurant in Keraniganj, as 抖阴精品 reported on October 6, is shocking. It is more so after a series of such events the latest of which, on February 29, left at least 46 dead as a cylinder explosion burnt an eight-storey building that housed mostly restaurants and eateries on Bayley Road in Dhaka...
A crew member died as a Bangladesh Shipping Corporation-owned oil tanker 鈥楳T Banglar Shourabh鈥� caught fire at the outer anchorage of Chattogram Port on Saturday, five days after...
Brigadier General Muhammad Jahed Kamal has taken charge as director general of the Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Coal-fired power plants enjoy free rein to unfairly influence the cost of its fuel on the one hand, while on the other, they burn coal having quality far less than the one the government has paid...
The National Board of Revenue on Wednesday asked the office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms to immediately suspend sales and transfers of shares by seven business groups...
A couple and their four minor children were burnt to death as a house of an Ashrayan Project in village Shimer Khal under Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj...
A fire broke out after an explosion in a petroleum-carrying vessel at Patenga in the River Karnaphuli in Chattogram on Monday morning...
Mohammad Abdul Mannan, chairman of First Security Islami Bank, has been elected chairman of Islamic Banks Consultative Forum during the forum鈥檚 64th meeting held on Sunday, said a press release...
THE election and inauguration of Sri Lanka鈥檚 first leftist president, Anura Dissanayake, have marked the beginning of a new chapter in the country鈥檚 political landscape. There are many questions surrounding how the nation鈥檚 political vision and progress will unfold under his leadership. His role in addressing the country鈥檚 economic crisis, debt...
Abu Reza Md Yeahia has joined First Security Islami Bank PLC as additional managing director, said a press release...
The Bangladesh Bank on Sunday agreed to provide credit guarantee to reassure other banks to lend to five financially troubled banks through the interbank money market, aiming to help these banks partially return funds to their depositors...
China imposed sanctions on nine US defence firms on Wednesday, the foreign ministry said, describing the measures as retaliation for Washington鈥檚 approval of military equipment sales to Taiwan this week...
Indian-administered Kashmir began voting Wednesday in the first local elections since the cancellation of its special semi-autonomous status sparked fury in the troubled Himalayan territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan...
Activities at Teknaf Land Port were suspended since 2:00pm on Wednesday, about half an hour after three bullets fired from Myanmar hit three places at a time in the port area...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Mainul Hasan said that recording a case at a police station did not automatically necessitate the immediate arrest of the accused named in the FIR...
A pioneering private crew made history on Thursday by becoming the first civilians to perform spacewalks, as NASA hailed 鈥榓 giant leap forward鈥� for the commercial space industry...
A case was lodged on Thursday with a court in Chapainawabganj against five people including former inspectors general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque and Benazir Ahmed for killing an...
American firms in China are grappling with an unprecedented web of challenges, a business group said Thursday, as economic woes and geopolitical tensions drag optimism and profitability to all-time lows...
European firms are considering a 鈥榮ubstantial鈥� rethink of their operations in China in the face of lacklustre demand and a lack of action by Beijing to mitigate economic woes, a business lobby warned Wednesday...
Ongoing labour unrest in the readymade garment sector led to the shutdown of 114 factories in Ashulia and Gazipur industrial areas on Wednesday, while agitating workers set fire to a factory in Kashimpur following a clash between two groups of workers...
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of legendary Nazrul Sangeet singer Firoza Begum, who is regarded as the nightingale of Nazrul Sangeet for her contribution to the genre...
The Police Headquarters on Saturday said that law enforcers had recovered 53 firearms and arrested 25 people in the ongoing joint operations from midnight past Wednesday till Saturday morning...
At least eight people were arrested and 11 firearms, including a shotgun from Noakhali-4 constituency lawmaker Ekramul Karim Chowdhury鈥檚 family graveyard in the district were recovered...
At least 17 young children were killed and 70 missing after a fire ripped through a primary school dormitory in central Kenya overnight, officials said Friday, leaving...
Mohammad Abdul Mannan has joined First Security Islami Bank PLC as chairman of the bank鈥檚 reformed board of directors, said a press release...