There is indifference in abiding to instructions issued to avoid hitting pillars of Padma Bridge, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury said today.

Five upazilas of Bogura and Naogaon were left without electricity early today due to a fire at a power substation in Kathaltali area of ​​Naogaon city.

A ferry hit pillar number 10 of the Padma Bridge today.

A cleaner in Shariatpur’s Bhedarganj upazila parishad died after falling from the upazila parishad building yesterday.

A motorcyclist was killed after his motorbike collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Singair upazila of Manikganj today.

An assistant sub-inspector of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) died in a road accident in Sholoshahar area in Chattogram city today.

A man died after a lorry hit his motorcycle in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area early today. 

The government’s factory inspection department has been negligent in monitoring safety measures, found a government probe body formed after the devastating Hashem Food and Beverage factory fire in Narayanganj.

A ferry bound for Munshiganj’s Shimulia ghat hit pillar no. 10 of the Padma bridge this evening, damaging the pillar’s pile cap.

For the onlookers watching from down below, it was a horrific few hours as they saw a person standing at the very corner of a fourth floor cornice.

Six people died and five others were injured after a mini-truck fell into a roadside ditch on the Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway under Natore’s Gurudaspur upazila yesterday.

On Thursday morning, an 18-year-old boy was poised precariously on the fourth-floor cornice of a building, causing onlookers to fear that he might fall to his death at any time. 

Six people died and five were injured as a small truck fell into a roadside ditch in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore today.

An alleged mugger died after being hit by a covered-van, while fleeing after a mugging incident, in Dhaka’s Chawk Bazar area last night.

Bodies of 21 workers, killed in the fire in Narayanganj’s Hashem Foods factory last month, were handed to family members yesterday. With them, remains of 45 workers, who died in the incident, have been handed to family members.

A fire broke out at a warehouse used by Singer Bangladesh in Savar yesterday morning where electronic appliances were stored. Though the cause and extent of damage is yet to be ascertained, eyewitnesses said the total damage could be hefty.

A farmer died from electrocution in Panchagarh Sadar upazila yesterday.

The fire that broke out in a warehouse of Singer Bangladesh in Savar, was brought under control this afternoon.

A six-year-old was killed after a pickup van hit her at Khilgaon in Dhaka this afternoon.

The bodies of 24 of the workers who died in the Hashem Foods factory fire last month were handed over to their families yesterday.