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Firefighters still struggling to fully extinguish fire at HSIA

Nearly 23 hours after a devastating fire broke out at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, firefighters are still struggling to fully extinguish the flames...

Ansar-VDP DG visits Uttara Temple

Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence  Party director general Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud visited Uttara Sarbajanin Temple in the capital on Wednesday...

4 fire officers among 5 hurt in Tongi fire

At least five people, including four members of the fire service and civil defence, sustained burn injuries while trying to douse a fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse in Tongi of Gazipur Monday afternoon.

Boeing defence workers reject deal to end strike

Boeing workers at its St Louis area defence factories will stay on strike after union members voted Friday to reject a new contract offer from the US aviation giant...

South Korea overturns 60-year ruling on woman’s self-defence case

A South Korean court acquitted on Wednesday a woman convicted six decades ago for defending herself against sexual violence, after she challenged the ruling inspired by the country’s #MeToo movement...

Strategic rise of China’s defence exports

THE Chinese government launched its global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative’  on September 7, 2013. The project is also known as One Belt, One Road. The ‘belt’ refers to the Silk Road economic belt, a network of overland road and railway routes connecting nations. The ‘road’ refers to the 21st century Maritime Silk Road, a series of shipping lanes and...

Trump rebrands Department of Defence as ‘Department of War’

President Donald Trump is changing the name of the Department of Defence to the Department of War, the White House announced Thursday, insisting the rebrand will project a more powerful image.

ONE Bank hosts fire drill programme

ONE Bank PLC arranged a fire drill programme at its corporate headquarters in collaboration with Fire Service & Civil Defence Authority on August 21, said a press release...

US proposed NATO-style defence guarantees for Kyiv

The US has proposed security guarantees for Ukraine similar to—but separate from—the collective defence agreement between NATO member countries, Italy’s prime minister and a diplomatic source said on Saturday...

Boeing defence workers turn to US Congress

Boeing defence industry workers currently on strike asked for congressional lawmakers’ support on Wednesday as they seek to pressure the aviation giant to improve its bargaining offer to the union...

Bangladesh’s best defence against dictatorship

‘THE more they know, the less they obey’ — this unforgettable line is uttered by an authoritarian king who fears an educated public. Satyajit Ray’s dystopian film Hirak Rajar Deshe may be fictional, but the impulse to suppress political knowledge is very real. In both authoritarian regimes and fragile democracies, political education is often neglected, leaving citizens less equipped to understand and defend their rights...

Thyssenkrupp to spin off marine division

German industrial titan Thyssenkrupp’s shareholders on Friday backed a spin-off of its warship and submarine-building unit, seeking to better position the group to benefit from a European defence boom...

Philippines’ Marcos strikes defence deals in India

The Philippines and India signed a raft of security deals Tuesday aimed at strengthening strategic ties between the nations as they navigate tensions with China across the Asia-Pacific...

Sheltech MD Tanvir completes Capstone leadership course

Tanvir Ahmed, managing director of Sheltech Group, has completed Capstone Course 2025/2 at National Defence College, Mirpur Cantonment in the capital held from July 13 to July 31...

China for cooperation in all sectors for Bangladesh’s development: Envoy

China is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in all sectors of Bangladesh, including the military, for the development of Bangladesh, Chinese ambassador in Dhaka Yao Wen said on Tuesday...

US will send Ukraine Patriot air defence systems: Trump

President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine to help it fight off a Russian invasion, as his relations with Russian president Vladimir Putin soured...

Fire service holds firefighting, rescue drills

The Fire Service and Civil Defence on Wednesday conducted firefighting, rescue, first aid and evacuation drills at Uttara Centre and Bijay Sarani of Dhaka Metro Rail...

Fire at Mirpur slum brought under control

A fire broke out at a slum in the Bhashantek area of Dhaka’s Mirpur on Sunday evening and was brought under control after more than an hour.

Strategic vision or policy daydream

BRIGADIER General (Retd) HRM Rokan Uddin’s recent call for rethinking Bangladesh’s defence reforms, published in ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·, deserves recognition for reigniting a largely dormant strategic debate. His essay presents an aspirational vision for modernising Bangladesh’s armed forces in a time of shifting global power dynamics, emerging hybrid threats, and evolving...

India says it destroyed Lahore air defence unit

India said on Thursday that it had retaliated to destroy an air defence system in Lahore after Pakistan launched an overnight air attack using ‘drones and missiles’.

Israeli strikes kill 19 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said two Israeli air strikes killed at least 19 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory’s north early Monday...

Fire service is symbol of trust, reliability: Jahed Kamal

Director general of the Fire Service and Civil Defence, Brigadier General Muhammad Jahed Kamal, at an event at its headquarters in Dhaka on Sunday said that fire service was symbol of trust and reliability...

De facto occupation: Israel’s security zone strategy

IN RECENT months, the Israeli Defence Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. ‘Security zones’ are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. Land is, for claimed reasons of self-defence, being appropriated with brazen assuredness. It is hard, however, to see this latest turn as anything other than a de...

50-member disaster response team formed

The fire service and civil defence formed a 50-member specialised team alongside imparting training to enhance their capacity to cope with all natural and man-made disasters especially earthquake...

Israeli air strikes kill 25 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes since dawn on Sunday have killed at least 25 people across the Gaza Strip, including women and children...

FSCD celebrates 44th founding anniv

The Fire Service and Civil Defence Department celebrated the 44th founding anniversary on Wednesday...

Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported at least 12 people killed Monday in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory, where the war triggered by Hamas’s 2023 attack on Israel entered its 19th month...

Greece to spend 25b euros in defence overhaul: PM

Greece will spend 25 billion euros ($27 billion) through to 2036 in the ‘most drastic’ defence overhaul in its modern history, prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday...

Militarising Europe: EU defence spending bug

France, Italy, UK order more air defence missiles

Paris, Rome and London said on Friday they had ordered new air defence missiles after a shock US policy shift in ties with Europe.