Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today decided to provide Tk 25,000 monthly from their own funds to the family of Md Ahsan Kabir Khan to bear education expenses of his children which will continue till masters or equivalent degrees.

A worker died and another was injured in an explosion caused by accumulated gas at an aluminium factory in Narayanganj Sadar upazila today.

A fire that broke out at a building in old Dhaka’s Islampur this afternoon, has been brought under control after half an hour.

In a repeat of a series of incidents that took place last year, a child fell into a drain while walking with her family members in the port city’s Chandgaon area on Saturday evening.

Five persons were burnt in a fire believed to be originated from a gas leak at a restaurant in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this afternoon.

Fire that broke out in a launch near Sadarghat launch terminal in Dhaka this morning, has been brought under control.

Three Bangladeshi expatriates died in a road accident in Qatar last night, Bangladeshi community sources said.

Three children died as part of a hill collapsed on them in a rubber plantation at Bhatara union of Moulvibazar’s Kalaura upazila yesterday afternoon.

A cement-laden bulkhead capsized after being hit by a passenger launch in the Dhaleshwari river in Munshiganj Sadar upazila this morning.

Nine people including a cleaner of Dhaka South City Corporation died in road accidents in the capital, Narsingdi and Dinajpur yesterday.

A fire broke out at a food processing factory at Kashimpur area of Feni town yesterday noon. 

Four people were killed and two injured when a pickup van hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi this morning.

A street cleaner of Dhaka South City Corporation died after a bus hit him near the south gate of National Mosque Baitul Mokarram in Dhaka this morning.

Two people died and at least four were injured after three vehicles--two trucks and a pick-up van, collided in Dhaka’s Rupnagar Beribandh area early today.

Water transport services between Narayanganj and Munshiganj partially resumed today, after three days of suspension following the launch capsize in Shitalakkhya River on March 20.

Two persons, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed and 25 others injured in a collision between a passenger bus and a tractor at the Badalgachi upazila of Naogaon last night.

A man was killed and three of his family members -- including two children -- sustained burns in a fire at their house in Dhaka’s Badda area early yesterday.

Two construction workers have died and another one was injured while working inside the septic tank of an under-construction building at Damudya upazila of Shariatpur this afternoon.

The reason behind the launch ML Afsar Uddin sinking was because drivers of the two vessels were competing in the Shitalakkhya river, investigation committee formed by the Narayanganj district administration said in their report.

One of the four members of a family, who were burnt in a fire at their house in Dhaka’s Badda area early today, died at a city hospital this evening.