15 bodies found after landslide buries scores in China
Mao County, Jun 25 (AP/UNB) – Crews searching through the night in the rubble left…
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Abandoning Rangamati tour was wrong: Gayeswar Roy
BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Saturday said their party senior leaders’ decision to…
Over 140 feared buried in China landslide
Chinese rescuers scoured through rocks on Saturday in a frantic search for more than 140…
140 people feared buries in China landslide
More than 140 people are feared to have been buried by a landslide in south-west…
Over 100 people feared buried by China landslide
Beijing, June 24 (AP/UNB) – A county government in southwestern China says around 100 people…
The world is burning
By IPS World Desk Rome, June 23(IPS) – Record high temperatures are gripping much of…
Grenfell Tower fire started in fridge freezer
The Grenfell Tower fire in London started in a fridge freezer, and outside cladding failed…
Grenfell Tower type cladding used in around 600 UK high rises
Around 600 high rises across England are using similar cladding to Grenfell Tower, Downing Street…
Australia to help build community resilience in Cox’s Bazar
Dhaka – The Australian Government has announced additional support of AUD3.9 million to the United…
Worst landslide-hit Rangamati roadlink partially restored
Dhaka – The 70km Chittagong-Rangamati road link has been restored yesterday by connecting it a…
London tower fire death toll rises to 79
London police say that the number of dead or missing in the high-rise apartment building…
Declare landslide-hit area disaster zone
Dhaka – BNP on Monday demanded the government immediately declare the hillslide-hit areas of the…
Declare hillslide-hit areas as ‘disaster zones’: BNP
Dhaka – BNP on Monday demanded the government immediately declare the hillslide-hit areas of the…
15 bitten by fox in Munshiganj
Munshiganj – At least 15 people, including a woman, were injured as a fox bit…
London tower fire death toll rises to 79
Fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower, a social housing block in Kensington, in…
Bangladesh braces for another heavy rain spell
Dhaka, Jun 19 – Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to occur at places…
Landslide halts rail communication with Sylhet
Dhaka, June 19 – The rail communications between Sylhet and rest of the country halted…
Fresh landslide kills 5 in BD southeastern districts
Two siblings were killed in a fresh landslide triggered by heavy downpour in Budungpara of…
Portugal forest fires kill 57 near Coimbra
A catastrophic forest fire in Portugal has claimed at least 57 lives, officials say. Most…
BD Landslide: Rangamati hill district struggling to get back to normal
Dhaka – The roads connecting the Rangamati the hill town with and port city of…
UK resolute in face of adversity: Queen
The Queen has said it is “difficult to escape a very sombre national mood” following…
Two more bodies in Rangamati: Landslide death toll 156
Rangamati, June 17 – Two fresh bodies of hill track massive landslide victims were recovered…
Grim search at London blaze site continues as anger mounts
London – London firefighters are continuing the grim search after a high-rise fire that killed…
Climate change may trigger more landlsides: Experts
Md Rafiqul Islam, UNB staff writer Dhaka, Jun 16 – In the wake of recent…
Hasina shocked at loss of lives, property in London fire
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed deep shock at the loss of…
BNP team to visit Rangamati landslide victims
– A BNP team will go to the landslide-hit Rangamati on Sunday to ‘stand by’…
Landslide-hit Rangamati hill-district still cut off from Dhaka
Dhaka – The people of Rangamati hill district, cut off from the rest of the…
Queen, William visit Grenfell Tower centre
The Queen and Prince William visited a relief centre for Grenfell Tower fire victims, while…
“No way out of fire, pray our deaths are not painful”
Moulvibazar, June 16 – Family members of five expatriate Bangladeshis who remain missing since the…
Prime minister May orders full public inquiry of London fire
Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the fire that engulfed…