AFP : A fire ripped through an apartment complex in central Hanoi early Friday, killing 14 people and injuring three others, police said. Smoke and toxic gases billowed out of the building in Cau Giay district, a densely populated district of Vietnam’s capital that is home to several universities, after a fire broke out around 12:30am Thursday. Rescuers forced their way inside, breaking the lock of an external gate and smashing a window to rescue seven people trapped inside. Neighbours...
Day: May 25, 2024
Business Desk : United Group has opened its flagship retail brands, Unimart and Chef’s Table at Centrepoint, located next to...
Entertainment Desk : May 25 marks the birth anniversary of the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Commemorating his 125th birthday...
City Desk : Mild to moderate heatwave is sweeping over theeight divisions and it may continue. “Mild to moderate heatwave is sweeping over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur,Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and it maycontinue,” said a met office forecast for the next 24 hours begins from 9am Friday, reports BSS. The low-pressure area over Southwest Bay and adjoining West central Bay movedslightly northeastwards, intensified into a well-marked low and into adepression over East central Bay and adjoining West central...
Business Desk : Businesses on Thursday demanded that the government lower the duty on the import of solar panels meant...
Sr. Staff Reporter, Rangpur : Preliminary round of the International Leadership Program on Education-2024(ILPE) was held in the districts of Rangpur division on Friday as part of the nationwide program. Global Innovation and Leadership Centre [GILC] in association with GEIST International Foundation organised the event. This year’s theme is “Embracing the rhythms of language and culture for global citizenship and leadership” Around 2000 students of grade 3-12 from different educational institutes in seven districts under the division took part the...
Al Jazeera : Iranian military investigators have so far found no evidence of criminal activity in the helicopter crash that killed late President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others, according to state media. A preliminary report on the crash by the general staff of the armed forces said the craft had “caught fire after hitting an elevated area”, finding no traces of “bullet holes” on the helicopter wreckage, according to the official IRNA news agency late on Thursday. The report also...
Staff Reporter : Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud stated that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has turned into an enemy of humanity and Bangladesh fully supports his arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC). “Bangladesh fully supports the arrest warrant issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC),” he said while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion titled ‘World Peace and Recognition of the State of Palestine,’ organised by the...
Bagerhat Correspondent : At least 20 persons were injured when clashes took place in between the 2 rival groups of people in the village Ghosgati under Mollahat Upazila in Bagerhat district on Wednesday morning (May 22) over the expansion of supremacy in the localities, according to a delayed report received here. 6 out of 20 injured persons were admitted to Khulna and Gopalganj Medical College Hospitals for their better treatment. A police squad was already deployed there in order to...