Arson

Gazi factory fire: A wake-up call for intelligence reform

The Gazi factory fire tragedy represents a severe setback to the progressive transformation of Bangladesh.

I reject the minority tag. Here is why

The face of the minority keeps changing depending on national borders.

Injustice must not beget injustice

Attacks on minorities, lootings and lynching must stop

A sudden curfew

A nation-wide government curfew was declared from midnight on Friday till 10 am on Sunday.

When will the politics of burning people alive end?

Why haven't our law enforcers been able to identify those responsible for these arson attacks?

Law Watch / Regulating fire incident operation

In order to combat umpteen incidents of fire accident and make the rescue process easier, the government of Bangladesh in 2003 enacted the Prevention and Extinguishment of Fire Act under which the Department of Fire Service and Civil Defence is estaAnchorblished.

Cases filed against BNP men as they committed crimes: PM

Responding to BNP's allegation of facing too many cases, PM Hasina said that cases have been filed as they had committed such crimes adding that those who burnt people to death in the name of movement must be punished.

War crimes charges pressed against 4 Moulvibazar men

The prosecution presses two charges against four Moulvibazar men for their alleged involvement in crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.

Arson: Charges pressed against Khaleda, 26 others

Darussalam police press charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 26 other leaders and activists of the party in connection with two arson cases filed in January last year.

March 19, 2015
March 19, 2015

Trucker killed, 5 burnt in Chandpur arson

A trucker was burnt alive and five injured as unidentified miscreants hurled petrol bombs at two goods-laden trucks in Chandpur Sadar upazila during the wee hours of the hartal

March 13, 2015
March 13, 2015

Mindless arson burns 2 in Savar

At least two passengers were injured as miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a long-route bus in Savar on the outskirts of the capital

March 12, 2015
March 12, 2015

Khaleda to hold press conference on ongoing political situation at 4pm tomorrow

BNP chief Khaleda Zia to brief the media tomorrow on the ongoing situation of the country

March 12, 2015
March 12, 2015

Russian fatal Kazan shopping centre fire leaves 25 missing

Five people died and up to 25 people feared trapped in rubble after a fire at a shopping centre in the Russian city of Kazan

March 11, 2015
March 11, 2015

5 injured in Dhaka crude bomb blasts

At least five people, including two policemen, were injured in separate crude bomb blasts in Dhaka.

March 11, 2015
March 11, 2015

Laxmipur Jubo Dal man succumbs to bullet injuries

A Jubo Dal activist, who sustained bullet injuries during a ‘gunfight’ with police at Char Lawrence Berarganj on Laxmipur-Ramgati road in Kamalnagar upazila on March 2, dies at a hospital in Dhaka.

March 11, 2015
March 11, 2015

Torching land offices

WE cannot but deplore in the strongest terms the senseless acts of vandalism that have plagued the country in the last two months, the latest victim of which, it seems, has become the land record offices across a big swathe of the country.

March 10, 2015
March 10, 2015

'Building owners to install CC cameras'

In the wake of some recent petrol bomb charges reportedly from the tops of city buildings, the government has decided to ask the owners of high-rise buildings in the capital to install close-circuit (CC) cameras.

March 10, 2015
March 10, 2015

3 JCD men held at Shahbagh

Police today picked up three leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, near Aziz Super Market at Shahbagh in Dhaka.

March 10, 2015
March 10, 2015

Tomorrow’s Dakhil exam postponed

The government postpones the Dakhil examinations scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday) following extension of hartal by the BNP-led 20-party political alliance.