At least six crew members were injured when a massive fire broke out in engine room of the oil tanker MV Sadia Enterprise in the River Dakatia, Chandpur in Bangladesh on Sunday afternoon.
Dhaka South City Corporation has provided four water rescue boats to Fire Service and Civil Defence at a programme at Golden Fiber Glass (Boat Yard) premises at Bandar in Narayanganj on Tuesday.
The United States on Sunday handed over lifesaving water rescue equipment, hazardous material protection equipment, and medical supplies to Fire Service and Civil Defense to...
Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief on Saturday provided 11 aerial platform ladder vehicles to Fire Service and Civil Defence, said a press release.
A fire on Thursday morning broke out in the Notun Arot area of Konabari in Gazipur leaving seven mini factories and three shops burnt.
The fires that recently put two Bangladesh-flagged oil tankers out of order have partially affected the petroleum products鈥� supply chain, potentially increasing the freight cost and exposing the already embroiled energy sector to even more uncertainties...
India鈥檚 capital New Delhi ordered Monday a 鈥榗omplete ban鈥� on fireworks in a bid to curb air pollution in a city where levels are regularly ranked among the worst in the world...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A joint operation began across the country in an effort to recover illegal firearms Tuesday midnight.
The fire that broke out at Gazi Auto Tyres Factory in the Rupganj area of Narayanganj on Sunday night was yet to be completely doused after nearly three days...
The fire that broke out at Gazi Auto Tyres Factory in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj on Sunday night was yet to completely douse after burning for nearly 44 hours on Tuesday, leaving the factory at risk of collapse...
The fire that broke out at Gazi Auto Tyres Factory in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj on Sunday night was brought under control on Monday evening through 21 hours of...
A fire broke out at Gazi Auto Tyres Factory in Narayanganj鈥檚 Rupganj upazila on Sunday night...
Hopes were dwindling on Thursday for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where fighting raged despite pressure from the United States on Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas to reach an agreement...