A fire broke out at a garage and spread to an adjacent 12-storey building in Rajshahi city’s Kumarpara early today, police and fire fighters said.

A man with a hearing impairment was run over by a train on the Panchagarh-Parbatipur railway track in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila yesterday.

Two motorcyclists were killed and two pillion riders injured after their bikes collided head-on at Dhulivita in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka today.

Clean Clothes Campaign, the world’s largest alliance of garment industry labour unions, piled pressure on the major brands connected to the Tazreen factory fire to sign the International Accord, which protects workers in Bangladesh.

A hearing-impaired youth was crushed under the wheels of a train at Matherganj in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila today.

Two people were killed and two injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Fourteen families that lost their homes in last week’s blaze at Ruhea Madhupur Gudampara village of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila now have no shelter to take refuge amid the chilly nights.

A timber trader died after a train hit his motorbike while crossing an unprotected railway level crossing near Aditmari railway station in Lalmonirhat on Tuesday night.

Maya Begum, a survivor of the blaze that engulfed Tazreen factory 10 years ago, is losing all hope for justice, or financial assistance for that matter, as proceedings of the case centring this incident is progressing at a snail’s pace.

A man was killed and another injured in a road crash in Sultanpur area of Brahmanbaria Sadar this morning.

A motorcyclist was killed as a truck ran over his bike in Chattogram yesterday morning.

Chattogram Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL), a state-owned urea fertiliser company, suspended its production following a fire that damaged machines today.

A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila this morning.

A police constable died after a truck hit his motorcycle at Daulatpur Meenakhhi intersection in Khulna city this morning..The deceased Musabbir died on the spot , our Khulna correspondent reports quoting Monira Sultana, deputy commissioner (traffic) of Khulna Metropolitan Police, confirmed

A six-year-old boy was killed after a bus hit him and another ran over him while he was walking with his father on the side of a road in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area.

At least five passengers of an auto-rickshaw were killed, as a truck hit it in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh yesterday evening.

At least five people died when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at the Balipara area in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila this evening.

Three men were killed in a road accident in the capital’s Khilgaon area early yesterday.

An expatriate Bangladeshi has died, after falling from an under-construction building in the Maldives.

A fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka’s Uttara area this evening, was brought under control.