YET another avoidable death shows the danger that lurks over the heads of Dhaka residents. On October 26, a pedestrian was killed when a 100-kilogram metro rail bearing pad fell off the viaduct at Farmgate. Two others were injured. Metro services ground to a halt, passengers stranded, while the city held its collective breath. This disaster is not an anomaly. A year ago...
A report of the Road Safety Foundation has exposed an alarming reality. At least 314 areas across Bangladesh have become accident-prone zones where thousands of people are maimed or killed every year. The study has identified 21 鈥榟igh-risk鈥� areas, including parts of Dhaka, Gazipur, Tangail, Chattogram and Mymensingh, where road deaths are disproportionately high...
The body of a 19-year-old college student, allegedly strangled to death at his girlfriend鈥檚 residence in Old Dhaka鈥檚 Bangshal area, was recovered on Saturday evening...
A murder case was filed on Monday night after the police recovered the body of a Chittagong University student with severed tendons in the city...
Six international rights bodies, including United States-based Human Rights Watch have urged Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to immediately end arbitrary arrests and detentions and filing politically motivated cases.
Non-government teachers and employees on the monthly pay order scheme on Monday morning began their fast unto death programme at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka city, demanding pay hikes...
A 20-year-old youth, Shiplu Mia, was stabbed to death by assailants at Dapunia area under Mymensingh Sadar on Friday evening...
Child deaths linked to air pollution have reached crisis levels in Bangladesh, turning into what researchers describe as a 鈥榮ilent epidemic鈥�, according to a new international study by Zero Carbon Analytics.
A trader was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants in Khalishpur area of Khulna city Thursday morning...
The 31st anniversary of death of eminent artist Sheikh Mohammed Sultan, widely known as SM Sultan, best known for his unique depiction of the strength, vigour and vitality of rural people, will be observed today...
The 38th death anniversary of Mohammad Farhad, former general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh and former lawmaker, will be observed today...
A Union Parishad member was beaten to death by rivals in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh Sunday night...
A man stabbed his wife to death on the premises of Dharmapasha senior judicial magistrate court in Sunamganj on Monday...
A youth was hacked to death while another person was beaten to death in separate incidents in Noakhali鈥檚 Begumganj upazila on Friday...
The first anniversary of death of former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury will be observed today...
Today is the second anniversary of death of poet Asad Chowdhury...
A woman was hacked to death by a neighbour at Ishwarganj in Mymensingh on Friday evening, following a dispute over a chicken...
A ward level leader of Juba Dal, youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was hacked to death in Kahaloo upazila of Bogura Tuesday afternoon...
At least one in every six dengue death victims this year in Bangladesh is a child, while children account for nearly one-fifth of the total hospitalisations with the mosquito-borne viral fever, according to official data.
A man suspected of being involved in theft was beaten to death at Jangalia of Mohammadpur in Magura on Tuesday...
Scientists estimated Wednesday that rising temperatures from human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly 16,500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released...
A suspected thief was reportedly beaten to death at Motobi under sadar upazila in Feni on Saturday night...
Three people are believed to have been crushed to death and three others were missing in two separate incidents as migrants attempted to cross the English Channel, French officials said on Wednesday...
Two youths were beaten to death and two others were injured by local people on suspicion of mugging in two separate incidents at Mohammadpur in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday...
The 54th anniversary of death of Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad Sheikh, killed in the War of Independence, will be observed today...
The 13th death anniversary of Anwarul Abedin, founder chairman of the American International University鈥揃angladesh, will be observed on Friday...
THE death of another worker caused by police action over unpaid wages demonstrates the government鈥檚 continued disregard for worker rights. At least 25 others were also injured in the clash with law enforcers at the Uttara Export Processing Zone in Nilphamari on September 2. While the family and fellows of the victim claimed that the deceased was shot by law enforcers...
Different cultural organisations and educational institutions observed the 49th anniversary of the death of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam organising different programmes on Wednesday.聽聽聽聽聽..
A man was beaten to death on suspicion of theft at a local mosque in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh district early Monday.
Today is the third death anniversary of former election commissioner, freedom fighter and writer Mahbub Talukdar...
