Death

At least three people were shot dead during a gunfight between two factions of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (JSS) over establishing supremacy in Rajasthali upazila on Monday evening. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet. Officer-in-charge of Rajasthali Police Station Mafzal Ahmed Khan said the gunfight between the two JSS groups started around 5pm in remote ... Read More »

Chittagong, Nov 17, 2019 – At least seven people including a child and a government primary school teacher were killed and 15 others injured in a gas pipeline explosion in a house in Port City’s Patharghata area Sunday morning, police said. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Read More »

Two people were killed after a pick-up van plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Korpai in Burichang upazila early Wednesday. Read More »

At least 16 passengers were killed and over 100 others injured in a fatal collision between two trains on Dhaka-Chattogram route in Mandbagh Railway Station in Kasba upazila early Tuesday. The deadly collision between Dhaka-bound Turna Nishita Express from Chattogram and Chattogram-bound Udayan Express from Sylhet took place around 3am, said Deputy Commissioner Hayat-Ud-Dowllah Khan, who visited the spot right ... Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 12 – The bodies of nine fishermen, who went missing in a trawler capsize in the Meghna River in Charfasson upazila of Bhola on Sunday, were recovered from the Machhkata River in Mehendiganj upazila on Monday night, taking the death toll from the incident to 10. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 12 -At least 12 passengers were killed and over 100 others injured in a fatal collision of two trains on Dhaka-Chittagong route in Mandbagh area in the early hours of Tuesday. Read More »

Panchagarh, Nov 8 – A man was killed and another injured when a truck hit a motorbike on Boda-Debiganj road in Boda Upazila on Thursday night. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 05 – The body of the former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka is expected to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 8:10 am Thursday and he will be buried at Jurain graveyard after asr prayer beside the graves of his parents, according to his family sources. Read More »

Dhaka, November 05 – Former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka will be buried beside the graves of his parents at Jurain graveyard in the city as per his last wish. Read More »

A male patient was found hanging from the ventilator of the toilet of the Sadar Hospital on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Abdul Malek, 65, of Lasmanpur in Sadar upazila. Read More »

A lorry driver has been charged with the manslaughter of 39 people found dead inside a refrigerated trailer. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 25 (UNB) – Actor, writer and director Humayun Sadhu died at a hospital in the city early Friday.Sadhu breathed his last at 12.30 am on Friday at Square Hospital. Read More »

Shariatpur, Oct 25 -The more bodies of three fishermen, who went missing following a collision between two speedboats in the Padma River in Jajira Upazila on Wednesday, were recovered on Thursday, raising the death toll from the incident to four. Read More »

Savar, Oct 25 – Police recovered the hanging bodies of a couple from a house at Buribazar in Ashulia here on Friday morning. Read More »

Dhaka Oct 24 (UNB) – Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said several agencies are looking into the Bhola clash to find out what really happened. Read More »

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said several agencies are looking into the Bhola clash to find out what really happened. Read More »

London, Oct 23 (AP/UNB) — Police in southeastern England said 39 people were found dead Wednesday inside a large cargo truck believed to have come from Bulgaria. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 21 (UNB) – A tribunal here on Monday sentenced 12 people to death for killing a man in Kishoreganj in 2015. Read More »

Bhola, Oct 20 (UNB) – Four people were killed and an unspecified number of others injured in a clash between police and local people while demonstrating in Borhanuddin upazila on Sunday, demanding the punishment of a youth ‘for a Facebook post’ hurting the religious sentiment. Read More »

Two workers died after ‘inhaling toxic gas’ in a water tank of a tannery at Savar Tannery Industrial Estate here on Sunday morning. Read More »

Three people were killed after a passenger bus hit a roadside tree at Nagardia in Nagarkanda upazila on Dhaka-Khulna highway on Monday night. Read More »

Cumilla, Oct 5 (UNB) – A madrasah student drowned while plucking water lilly at a canal at Homna here on Saturday. Read More »

Searchers have recovered four bodies and are looking for two people missing from three fishing boats that were struck when a bridge collapsed in Taiwan. Read More »

Thakurgaon, Oct 1 (UNB) – A young woman, who reportedly went missing on September 28, a day after her husband allegedly committed suicide, was found dead in a pond of Udoypur village in Baliadangi upazila on Monday night. Read More »

Feni, Sept 30 – A tribunal here on Monday fixed October 24 for delivering its verdict on the sensational Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case. Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 30 – The son of deputy commissioner of police (DC), Ramna Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) allegedly shot himself dead with his father’s licensed gun in the capital on Monday morning. Read More »

Moscow, Sep 28 (AP/UNB) — Mark Zakharov, a renowned Russian theater and film director whose productions were widely acclaimed and loved by several generations of Russians, has died. He was 85. Read More »

Noakhali, Sept 28 – Six people died and another fell sick, reportedly after drinking spirit mixed with liquor at Mohammadnagar village in Companiganj Upazila early Saturday. Read More »

New International Law Is Essential to Retain Human Control Over Use of Force New York – France, Germany, and other nations that are committed to a rules-based international order should begin negotiations on a new international treaty to ban preemptively lethal autonomous weapons systems, also known as fully autonomous weapons or killer robots. Read More »

A school collapsed in Kenya’s capital on Monday morning, and officials said at least seven children were killed. Read More »