President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is barring a US-born former Islamic State propagandist from returning home, making the highly unusual case that she is not a US citizen.

Multiple accounts of what caused Wednesday's fire at Chawkbazar have been put forth by different quarters.

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India will stop its share of un-utilised waters of three rivers that flow into Pakistan, the country’s Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari says.

Pope Francis promises that concrete actions against child sexual abuse by priests would result from a conference, countering scepticism from some survivors who said the meeting looked like a public relations exercise.

The European Union should spend hundreds of billions of euros combating climate change during the next decade, its chief executive says, responding to a Swedish teen who has inspired a global movement of children against global warming.

US police arrests a TV actor charged with lying to authorities about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack on the streets of Chicago.

The ghastly fire at the Churihatta intersection in Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area leaves some with the last moments of their lives in agony, while others are left with a horrific memory that will haunt them forever.

The two-day annual election of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for its 14 executive posts including that of its president and secretary will be held on March 13 and 14.

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Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon says no chemical warehouse will be allowed inside Dhaka.

BNP blames the government's mismanagement and irresponsibility for the loss of huge lives in fire at a chemical warehouse in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka.

A total of 37 bodies of the victims of Chawkbazar fire incident is handed over to their families and relatives since this noon, an official says.

Authorities have called off rescue operation after dousing the ghastly fire at Chawkbazar which has claimed lives of about 70 people so far.

Rashidul Islam, a tea-stall employee in Hatirpool, his wife and their two sons were on a rickshaw and passing through the lane of Chawkbazar where the fire broke out last night.

The day has rolled past midday and Abdus Salam Azad is still searching for his younger brother. Fighting to hold back tears, he is looking for answers to convey to a 8-year-old child at home.

A blaze in the hundreds of years old Chawkbazar in Old Dhaka has so far claimed the lives of at least 70 people. Firefighters had to work for more than three hours to bring the blaze under control and it took another three hours to completely douse it.

Eight years have passed since 123 people were killed in Old Dhaka’s Nimtoli chemical warehouse – an incident that shook the nation.

Enamul was living the tale of a struggling middle-class jobseeker, surviving on the income of his cousin and desperate to stand on his own feet. With him perishing in Chawkbazar fire, so does his dreams of a stable living and better life for his family hundreds of miles away.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque today said an investigation should be conducted to find out whether the Chawkbazar fire had been caused due to negligence by those responsible for oversee people’s safety.