Sunday, 16 Jun, 2024

National

Concord Tower cracks in DhakaÔÇÖs Shantinagar

Dhaka: While the nation mourning successive building collapse and house-fire tragedies in the capital, a high-rise in the city’s Shantinagar area Saturday exposed cracks and sent inmates into scrambles for exit.“Panicked at the sight of the breaches on some floors of the Concord Grand

Concord Tower cracks in DhakaÔÇÖs Shantinagar

Dhaka: While the nation mourning successive building collapse and house-fire tragedies in the capital, a high-rise in the city’s Shantinagar area Saturday exposed cracks and sent inmates into scrambles for exit.“Panicked at the sight of the breaches on some floors of the Concord Grand

Cocktail found at RU

Rajshshi: Police Saturday recovered an unexploded cocktail from Rajshshi University campus, recently ravaged by violence.Motihar thana officer- in-charge Abul Khair said students saw an abandoned bag around 8 am while going to Ismail Hossain Siraji building to attend class. The university

Rajuk rises to rueful reality of buildings falling into ruin

DHAKA:  Rising to a rueful reality of jerrybuilt buildings falling into catastrophic ruin, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is going to sit on June 8 trying to execute the action plan against some 5,000 delinquent buildings constructed sans its permission.Sheikh Abdul Mannan, Rajuk

Old Dhaka Fire

Dhaka: The three-member probe committee formed for investigating the fire havoc in old Dhaka collected clues from witnesses and local panchaet committee on Saturday morning, trying to get at the root cause of the big blaze.After visiting the spot, Iqbal Khan Chowdhury, chief of the probe

Another city building cracks in Gendaria

Dhaka: Yet another city building came on the verge of imploding under the weight of its inbuilt faults on KP Road in Gendaria area at around 1:30pm, one and a half hours after a high-rise cracked at Shantinagar.Witnesses and inmates of the 6-story building told banglanews24.com.bd

Flashflood floods low-lying areas in Lalmonirhat

LALMONIRHAT: Flashfloods triggered by incessant rain for the last three days and onrush of hill waters flooded 40 villages in four upazilas of the northern frontier district, leaving about 15,000 people virtually marooned.Standing crops on a vast tract of land in Hatibandha, Kaliganj,

Grenade attack on police: attacker remanded

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Saturday placed Saikat alias Babu on a four-day remand in a case filed against him for throwing grenade on Gendaria police patrols.Magistrate Abdullah Al Mamun of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court granted the remand as investigating officer (IO) of the case SI

Lightening kills three, injures four in Ctg, Patuakhali

Dhaka: Three people, including a woman, were killed and four injured in lightning strikes in Chittagong and Patuakhali districts on Friday night, as the weather remained inclement.In Chittagong, two people were killed and another two injured as lightning struck them at village Mirzakhil

Alleged outlaw killed in Jhenidah shootout

Jhenidah: An outlawed party leader was killed in a ‘shootout’ between his supporters and police at Kamalnagar village in Shailakupa upazila early Saturday, official sources said. Police said Nasirul Islam alias Suknal, 50, the chief of his own underground group styled Suknal bahini,

Nimtali inferno: PM visits DMCH to see survivors

Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday directed the authorities concerned to provide best treatment to the people who survived Thursday night’s old-Dhaka inferno with severe burns.While visiting the injured at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the morning after the nightmare that

Infernal fire claims over 100 lives

Dhaka: The nation will observe a day of mourning Saturday for the victims of Thursday night`s devastating house fire in Old Dhaka`s Nimtali area that left piles of charred dead bodies and scores in agonies of burn injuries.Officials and witnesses said after an overnight haul of around a

Another high-rise building leans in Begunbari

Dhaka: A seven-story building tilted to one side at Uttar Begunbari area Friday, only three days after a house collapsed in the same area of the capital, and when the nation is fighting a grim fire tragedy in the city.A fire unit and a team from RAJUK rushed to the spot and evacuated the

Go voting on a vacation

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government

Go voting on a vacation

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government

Ex-State Minister Milon remanded

Chandpur: A Chandpur court Thursday granted one-day remand for interrogating former State Minister Ehsanul Haque Milon in a case of attempt to murder and arson attack.Senior Judicial Magistrate Abdur Rahman granted the remand when police prayed for 10 days’ remand after producing Milon

Speedy bus runs over insurance officer in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI: An insurance official was crushed under the wheels of a Rajshahi University bus on the rail-crossing in the city Thursday.Police and his colleagues said the deceased, Shah Jamal Haq, 40, hailed from Kushtia, was a principle officer of Prime Islamia Life Insurance company’s

ALÔÇÖs factional clash

Pabna: A fratricidal fight between two rival groups in the local chapter of the ruling Awami League over farm-labor recruitment left one dead and 10 injured on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, 35, elder brother of Abul Hashem, Jubo League president of

Vegetable trader stabbed to death in city

Dhaka: Muggers stabbed to death a vegetable trader as he tried to resist them from robbing him in Bijoy Sarani area in the capital early Thursday while going home after buying vegetables for his day’s small trade.Kafrul police said Monir Hossain went to Karwanbazar business hub to buy

RAB catches 2 with drugs after shooting down their two ringleaders

Dhaka: In a nonstop hunt after two suspected terrors were shot down in the city on Wednesday evening, a team of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) later in the night arrested another two members of the gang with a huge amount of Phensydil in Shahinbag area. The arrested persons were