For many young people facing unemployment, becoming a firefighter is a dream.

Four people of a family, including a five-year-old, were killed in a landslide in Satjami village of Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila early yesterday.

A police personnel died after a bus hit his motorcycle in Dhaka’s Bangla Motor area under Hatirjheel Police Station  yesterday morning.

The Chattogram Custom House auctioned off 30,000 tonnes of Hydrogen Peroxide today (June 6, 2022) in an open tender, which was lying at Chittagong Port for four years.

Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad at Dhaka University have demanded the immediate arrest of the BM Container Depot owner over the fire and explosion in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram.

The UN has said the devastating fire at the BM Container Depot is a reminder of the need to work together towards effective industrial and enterprise safety frameworks and their enforcement.

Chattogram DC (Deputy Commissioner) office has revised the death toll from Sitakunda’s BM Container Depot fire to 41.

If anyone is found responsible for the fire at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, they will have to face punishment, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said.

There are four containers that still contain inflammable chemicals inside the BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, the army said today.

Following the fire and explosions in BM Container Depot at Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila, chemical-mixed water has been spreading in the vicinity.

Akhter Hossain (17) worked as a driver at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda but since the devastating fire his family cannot find him.

At least 641 people were killed and 1,364 injured in 528 road accidents across the country in May, according to Road Safety Foundation.

A case has been filed against the unidentified driver of Safe Line Paribahan bus – involved in an accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar yesterday.

A police personnel died after a bus hit his motorcycle in Dhaka’s Bangla Motor area under Hatirjheel Police Station this morning.

The fire at BM Container Depot, in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram, is still not completely under control.

A team of experts of Criminal Investigation Department has started collecting DNA samples of the deceased in Chattogram container depot fire in order to identify them.

Mandatory safety measures like storing chemicals on a separate part of the premises with caution signs were not followed at BM Container Depot.

They are the ones who run towards danger when others run from it. Be it a fire, explosion, road accident, landslide, launch capsize or other natural or manmade calamities, these first responders rush to the spot selflessly.

"My husband is at least alive, even if his left hand has been amputated. It means a lot to me that he is still alive," said Nazneen Nahar, wife of Nurul Afsar, who sustained burn injuries in the fire and subsequent explosions at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Saturday night (June 4, 2022).

Four staffers of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, including a pregnant woman, were killed in a road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar yesterday.