An elderly pedestrian died yesterday after being hit by a pickup on Phulbari-Nageshwari road in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila.

A Satkhira court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in the district’s Tala upazila in 2009.

Ten fire engines immediately rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control around 9:23pm

The fire that broke out at Sattola slum in Mohakhali this morning was doused after around three hours.While no one was physically hurt, the survivors of the fire will have to grapple with the mental trauma and physical loss of the fire in the days to come.

They were rushed to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery and the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital with up to 10 percent burns on their bodies

The fire that broke out at the Sattola slum in Mohakhali this morning has been doused after around three hours

Two schoolchildren drowned in the Jamuna in Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila yesterday.

A college student died after being crushed under the wheels of a train in Dhaka's Uttara area this morning

Another victim of the Gulistan blast died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery this morning

A schoolboy was killed in a road accident in Jhenidah’s Kaliganj upazila around 10:00am yesterday.

More than 50 shops were gutted in a fire at Thanchi Bazar in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila this morning..The fire broke out at 8:00am and spread to the adjoining establishments, said Thoaiha Mong Marma, chairman of Thanchi upazila..Two firefighting units worked about three hours to bri

At least five people were killed and 47 others injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday.

Two auto-rickshaw passengers were killed after a bus ran over them on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla’s Daudkandi upazila today.

A man was killed after a passenger bus went off the road and fell into a roadside ditch in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah today.

At least two persons were killed and eight others were injured after a bus hit a roadside electric poll in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakathi this morning.

The blast inside a room of Noakhali’s Begumganj Model Mosque on Tuesday might have been caused by a perfume container, said Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit.

A man was killed in a train accident in Rajbari’s Pangsha yesterday morning.

Two men were killed in a road crash in Mymensingh’s Gouripur upazila on Wednesday night.

A man was killed when a train hit his motorcycle at an unautorised level crossing in Pangsha upazila of Rajbari this morning

The 25-year-old woman breathed her last around 6:30am while being treated at the burn institute