“Pray for me,” were the final words fireman Shakil Tarafdar uttered to his mother over phone before joining the operation to douse the deadly fire at the BM container depot in Sitakunda of Chattogram Saturday night.Shakil, son of Sattar Tarafdar and Ja…
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has recently visited Bhasan Char to meet the Rohingyas staying there temporarily and see the facilities there for them.Ambassador Li also inspected two projects on the island undertaken by Chinese companies, s…
Former England captain Joe Root became only the fourteenth player in history to amass 10,000 Test runs while playing the opening match of the series against New Zealand at Lords. Joe Root reached the milestone with a match-winning unbeaten 115*-run eff…
The district administration on Tuesday revised the death toll from Sitakunda container depot fire to 41 down from the earlier confirmed figure of 50.Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Mominur Rahman said the actual death toll from the BM container depot…
A court here on Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his father in 2017 at Pithabhog village in Rupsha upazila.The convict is Proshanto Biswas, son of Prafulla Biswas, of the area.Khulna Additional District and Sessions Judge-2 Tasni…
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson Sunday condoled the loss of lives in the deadly fire at BM Container Depot at Sitakunda in Chattogram.The death toll from the fire climbed to 49 by today, with nine fire service members …
A mobile court fined a private hospital Tk 50,000 for wrongful treatment of a patient leading to death in Shahrasti upazila of Chandpur district.The mobile court led by Upazila Assistant Commissioner (Land) Mohammad Amjad Hossain conducted the drive at…
The families of three victims from Feni, who were killed in the BM Container Depot fire, have been grieving since Saturday night.Salauddin Quader Sabuj, 37, was a firefighter hailing from Sadar upazila of the district; Shahahdat Ullah Majumdar, 38, fro…
Bangladesh registered 43 new Covid cases in 24 hours till Monday morning taking the country’s total caseload to 1,953,700.The country’s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,131 as no death was reported during the period, according to the Directora…
Indian authorities on Monday tightened the security for Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s and his father Salim Khan after the two allegedly received death threats.”The security for the Khan family has been beefed up in the wake of a threat letter the K…
Among the new patients, nineteen were admitted to different hospitals of Dhaka and another was hospitalized outside the capital, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Eighty dengue patients, including 76 in the capital, are now…
The United Nations has said the tragic accident at the BM Container depot in Chattogram is reminder of the need to work together towards effective industrial and enterprise safety frameworks and their enforcement.The UN in Bangladesh on Monday called u…
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