APBn member injured in ARSA members鈥� firing聽
An Armed Police Battalion member was injured in firing by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army at the Ukhia 4 Extension Rohingya Camp in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Sunday...
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10 people killed in Uruguay nursing home fire
All 10 elderly residents of an Uruguayan nursing home died on Sunday after an early-morning fire from which the lone caretaker was the only person to escape, authorities said...
Three Bangladeshis die in factory fire in Saudi Arabia
Three Bangladeshis from Naogaon鈥檚 Atrai upazila have died in a factory fire in the Musaasa neighborhood of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia....
Thousands told to flee raging California wildfire
Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire rages out of control in northern California, with a swathe of the United States in the grip of a...
No toll for fire service vehicles: HC
The High Court on Monday directed not to collect tolls from Fire Service vehicles on expressways, highways, important bridges, ferries and roads...
Greece fighting dozens of wildfires braces for worse to come
A large wildfire broke out southeast of Athens on Sunday afternoon, amid warnings that the worst of the summer heat is yet to come.
3 killed in Ctg market fire
At least three people were killed and two others injured in a fire that broke out at Mohammadiya Plaza in the Riazuddin Bazar area under Kotwali police station in...
Fire in freight train disrupts services on Chattogram route
Rail communications between Chattogram and the rest of the country were disrupted for three hours after a fire broke out in the locomotive of a goods train in the...
Money realisation suit against ex-First Finance Limited MD Tuhin Reza rejected
A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected a suit filed by First Finance Limited, a non-banking financial institution, against its former additional managing director Tuhin Reza for realisation money of Tk 18.50 lakh, he allegedly approved, as advanced withdrawal...
One dies in Buriganga trawler fire
One person was burnt to death and another went missing after a goods-carrying trawler caught fire in the Buriganga River in Narayanganj鈥檚 Fatullah area on Wednesday afternoon...
Gazipur jhut warehouse damaged in fire
A fire erupted at a jhut (unused fabric) warehouse of Shahida Apparels, a readymade garment factory, in the Ambagh area of Konabari in Gazipur on early Sunday...
Nine killed in hospital fire in northern Iran
At least nine patients died on Tuesday when a fire tore through a hospital in Iran's northern city of Rasht, state media said....
Indian relatives grieve as bodies of 45 Kuwait fire victims return
Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport on Friday as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home...
Kuwait makes arrests over deadly fire as Indian families mourn
Kuwaiti authorities said on Thursday three people had been detained for suspected manslaughter over a building fire that killed 50 foreign workers, mostly Indians, and plunged relatives and friends into mourning...
Child鈥檚 body recovered from Chaktai canal
The body of a child was recovered from Chaktai Canal near Karnaphuli River on Wednesday morning after two children went missing there on Tuesday in the port city...
Can the Gaza ceasefire work?
NINE months into Israel鈥檚 genocidal war in Gaza, the UN Security Council has finally endorsed a ceasefire plan that promises to end hostilities in the occupied territory...
Fire kills 49 in Kuwait building housing foreign workers
A fire killed 49 people in Kuwait when it ripped through a building housing nearly 200 foreign workers on Wednesday, the government said, reports Agence France-Presse...
Blinken in Israel to push Gaza ceasefire plan
US secretary of state Antony Blinken landed in Israel on Monday to promote a Gaza truce and hostage release plan as Israeli bombardment again rocked the Palestinian territory...
Woman killed as gas cylinder explodes in Bhola ice factory
An elderly woman was killed and two others including a child fell sick inhaling ammonia gas after a gas cylinder exploded in an ice factory in Bhola鈥檚 Daulatkhan upazila Saturday evening.....
3 Bangladeshis injured in BSF firing
At least three Bangladeshis, including a farmer, were injured as the Indian Border Security Force shot at them reportedly entering the Bangladesh territory near the Hatibandha border in Lalmonirhat on Friday...
Fire service launches hotline number 102
A new 3-digit hotline number, 102, has been launched experimentally at the Dhaka central control room of the Fire Service and Civil Defence....
Shocking delay in ensuring legal accountability for Nimtali fire
IT HAS been 14 years since a fire at a chemical warehouse at Nimtali in the Old Town of Dhaka killed 124 people, but no action has been taken against those responsible for the fire. On the anniversary of the deadly fire on June 2, the National Human Rights Commission issued a statement expressing frustration at the failure of the police to investigate the fire...
Firefighters closing parade held
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday urged the newly appointed firefighters and divers to be engaged in service by keeping the standard of discipline...
A greenhouse gas shipping levy is on the horizon
THE world鈥檚 first global carbon price is getting closer to becoming a reality...
FBCCI calls on businesses to prevent substandard fire safety tools supply
The country鈥檚 apex trade body Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Sunday urged businesses to prevent and regulate the supply of substandard fire safety equipment on the market聽to ensure safety of residential, commercial and industrial establishments...
Fire again destroys 200 Rohingya shelters
A devastating fire once again raged in the Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox鈥檚 Bazar to destroy nearly 200 shelters and other facilities, in a gap of...
Bangladeshi fisherman injured in Arakan Army firing dies
Fisherman Hossain Ali, 48, who was injured by the Myanmar armed group Arakan Army, while fishing in the Naf River, died early Tuesday while undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital...
Fire service worker electrocuted in Khagrachari
A fire service worker lost his life while cutting uprooted trees on a road in the Alutila area of Khagrachari on Monday night...
Hospital boss arrested after six babies die in India fire
Indian police said on Monday they had arrested a doctor and the owner of an unlicensed hospital where six newborn babies died in a fire in a crowded ward without fire exits...