Seven houses were gutted by a fire at village Purba Battajor in Battajor union of Jamalpur's Bakshiganj upazila early yesterday.

UNHCR report says some 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded smugglers' boats from the Bay of Bengal between January and March this year, almost double the number over the same period in 2014.

A college student drowned in Hatirjheel lake in the capital last night.

A fire broke out at capital's Eastern Plaza shopping complex this afternoon.

Two people were killed and three others injured when a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw near Ibrahimabad at Bangabandhu

Eight people were killed and 12 others injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday and Saturday.

Customs Intelligence seize 40 gold bars weighing 4.635 kilogrammes and also arrested two traffic helpers for possessing those at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong.

Six people were killed and three others injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday and Friday.

A person died after falling from the first floor of Kidney Foundation Hospital and Research Institute in the capital's Mirpur yesterday.

A man died after a lift fell to the ground from the third floor with him inside due to snapping of its cable in an apartment building of the

A man die after a lift at a residential building collapses at Dhanmondi-15 in Dhaka.

Seven people were killed and 36 others injured in road accidents in four districts yesterday.

Three people were killed and 21 others injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday.

Fire gutted 10 tin-roofed houses in Bhatarkhal slum area of Kirtonkhola riverbank in Barisal city yesterday noon.

Four people were killed and four others injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday and Sunday.

A construction worker died and six others sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out in a compressor room of an under-construction

Criminals abducted a 12-year-old schoolgirl from Ramdanga village in Dimla upazila on Friday night.

Six people were killed in road accidents in the country yesterday and on Thursday.

A lighter vessel capsized with 850 tonnes of coal in the Bay of Bengal near the Sandwip channel in Chittagong.

Authorities have transferred Baufal Police Station officer in charge Noresh Chandra Karmaker, who was allegedly involved in the brutal torture on Bangla daily Prothom Alo's Baufal correspondent ABM Mizanur Rahman in the police custody on March 17.