SINCE January 20, 2025, the world has closely watched the exchange of captives between Israel and Hamas. This ceasefire 鈥� despite its fragility and Israel鈥檚 repeated violations 鈥� took effect on January 19, 2025. It marks a critical moment that underscores the immense physical and psychological toll the genocide has inflicted on both sides. The first swap saw 3 Israelis...
A five-year-old girl died as fire gutted a house at West Sukhdeb village under Rajarhat in Kurigram on Friday....
A 60-year-old woman was burned to death while cooking in her kitchen in Chaychar village under Sadar upazila in Magura on Friday...
Mediators Qatar and Egypt were pushing to resolve a crisis in the Gaza ceasefire on Wednesday, a Palestinian source said, after Israel and the United States told Hamas to release hostages this weekend or face a return to war...
The Gaza ceasefire appeared increasingly fragile Tuesday after Hamas said US president Donald Trump鈥檚 latest warning 鈥榝urther complicates鈥� the agreement with Israel, which has so far led to five hostage-prisoner swaps...
Fire has gutted valuables at a plastic recycling factory in the capital鈥檚 Kadamtoli area on Tuesday morning...
Police charged batons, and fired sound grenades and teargas shells and sprayed water through canons on protesting recommended primary school teachers, whose appointments were cancelled through a High Court order on February 6, to disperse them from a Dhaka city road Monday afternoon...
A couple was killed and three others, including their two children, sustained injuries in their respiratory tracts as their tin-shed dwelling house caught fire at Haji Zafar Saudagar Colony under Kotwali Police Station in Chattogram city Monday morning...
A fire, which broke out at a leather warehouse, brunt down valuables, including rawhides at Banbelgharia in Natore district town on Friday night...
Fire broke out at Tekpara slums of Mirpur-14 early Tuesday but no causalities were reported in the incident...
Fifteen Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel under the terms of the Gaza ceasefire have arrived in Turkey, foreign minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday...
A passenger bus was burnt at Pabna Sadar early Saturday allegedly by a former local Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal leader for not paying Tk 20,000 as extortion money...
A couple was burnt to death in a fire that broke out at their kitchen in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali district....
THE idea of a ceasefire is as old as the idea of war. In old records, one reads of halts in firing for humans to eat or sleep. Rules of combat developed out of an understanding that both sides had to rest or refresh themselves. Sometimes, this understanding included the lives of animals...
Drik on Wednesday organised a special one-day photography exhibition titled Crossfire by photographer, journalist, and human rights activist Shahidul Alam, at Drik Gallery in the capital...
At least 26,659 incidents of fire were reported in the past year in which 140 people, including two firefighters were killed and 341 people were injured, according to a report by the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence...
JUST two days after a shaky ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel this week launched a large-scale incursion of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank...
An explosive new wildfire erupted north of Los Angeles on Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and setting nerves jangling in an area still reeling from two deadly blazes.
The number of dead after a fire that engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday rose to 66, the interior minister said.
A fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was holding Monday, following the dramatic exchange of three hostages for 90 Palestinian prisoners in an agreement aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in Gaza.
TWINNING the terms 鈥榗easefire鈥� and 鈥楪aza鈥� seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel鈥檚 hand, and Israeli prime minister...
Exhausted Los Angeles firefighters on Sunday braced for the return of yet more dangerously strong gusts, as California鈥檚 governor slammed 鈥榟urricane-force winds of misinformation鈥� surrounding blazes that have killed 27 people.
At least 30 readymade garment workers were injured in a boiler blast in a factory in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur on Monday morning...
A fire that broke out at a Bata showroom near Prashika Moar in the city鈥檚 Mirpur-6 area sparked panic in the area; but no casualties were reported, the authorities said on Monday...
Sheriff鈥檚 deputies on horseback fanned out through charred brush on Friday, hunting for the remains of people who perished when huge wildfires raced through Los Angeles.
ISRAEL, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants 鈥� in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza 鈥� but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. It eventually...
THE recurrence of fires in Rohingya camps is gravely concerning. More than 200 fire broke out in Rohingya camps in Cox鈥檚 Bazar in two years that left dozens dead and many injured, with hundreds of shelters having been destroyed. In the latest fire, a five-year-old child died and at least 100 houses were burnt in the Nayapara Mouchani camp early...
A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin Sunday morning, mediator Qatar said on Saturday after Israel鈥檚 cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release deal.
Tens of thousands of people ordered to flee their homes as wildfires tore through Los Angeles were told Thursday they would not be allowed back for at least a week, with fears over electrocution, landslides and exposure to toxic materials.
Israel鈥檚 security cabinet approved in a vote on Friday a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that should take effect this weekend, the prime minister鈥檚 office said.