Explosions from accumulated gas: How to keep your homes safe
But when there is a leak and gas accumulates inside a closed space or room, it is akin to a ticking time-bomb. And when that accumulated gas comes in contact with a spark from an electric short-circuit or when someone lights a matchstick, an explosion rips through the room.
8 March 2023, 09:57 AM
‘How would I console my father?’
Mansur Hossain, 42, and his cousin Al Amin, 20, had gone to Siddikbazar of Gulistan to buy sanitary ware for Mansur’s new flat
7 March 2023, 18:02 PM
‘Why can’t law enforcers catch escaped militants?’
Wife of slain publisher Dipan asks as 2 escaped death-row militants still at large after more than 3 months
1 March 2023, 09:41 AM
Fanfare as train tickets available a day before journey
"It is like a dream that AC tickets are available online even just a day before the departure date ... Earlier, we had to book tickets four to five days before the departure date to travel to and from Chattogram"
28 February 2023, 08:08 AM
Freedom fighter killed not by robbers but by son
Police Bureau of Investigation came up with the findings after arresting Rubel and inspecting CCTV footage that they recovered
12 February 2023, 11:41 AM
From a postal worker to top militant
Working as a post office worker till 2007, Mashukur Rahman started out on his path to serious crime committing robberies.
24 January 2023, 09:53 AM
‘I am innocent, why is my bail being delayed?’
She was arrested by Rampura police on November 10 in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash. On Wednesday, DB said they found that Bushra was not involved in his death.
16 December 2022, 12:14 PM
‘Why is my father not talking to me anymore?’
When eight-year-old Mithila Akter saw her father's body at Dhaka Medical College Hospital mortuary, she kept asking other family members, "Why is my father not talking to me anymore?"
7 December 2022, 15:36 PM
A murder planned to fund a pleasure trip
The killing of an elderly man in his Chawkbazar flat in Dhaka on November 17 was not a simple case of robbery as law enforcers suspected primarily after seeing the nature of the crime.
23 November 2022, 12:12 PM
Militant snatching incident exposes security loopholes
Only four cops were escorting 12 militants, including death row convicts, when unidentified attackers attacked and snatched two of them away from Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate court premises on Sunday.
20 November 2022, 18:48 PM
Earned Tk 52 lakh legally, bought flat worth Tk 3.09cr
As a government servant, the suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons, Bazlur Rashid, had earned only Tk 52 lakh legally during his service between 1993 and 2018.
23 October 2022, 08:07 AM
Don’t know why I’ve been sent into retirement: SP Baqui
Mirza Abdullahel Baqui, one of the three superintendents of police sent into retirement today, said he had no idea about his early retirement.
18 October 2022, 14:46 PM
“My mother died in my arms in the crushed car”
“My mother was in my arms as she breathed her last – crushed inside the car.”
16 August 2022, 11:24 AM
BAPEX calls jobseekers for written test after 8 years!
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) has called jobseekers for a written test – for assistant manager post – nearly eight years after they applied.
28 June 2022, 13:16 PM
“Death row fugitive worked as Imam; ran fake cancer cure centre”
Sheikh Enamul Haque – sentenced to death for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – moved to Gazipur from Gopalganj in 2001, changed his name, and had a National ID card made with fake information later on.
19 June 2022, 09:13 AM
Remaining in Dhaka, "missing teenager" didn't contact family in Pallabi for 12 years
Seventeen-year-old Md Suman did not return home after he lost his mobile phone, worth Tk 3,000, while gambling in 2010.
24 May 2022, 11:57 AM
‘My son, why didn’t you come back too?’
Abdur Razzak Hawlader was wailing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport as the body of Hadisur Rahman, third engineer of MV Banglar Samriddhi, did not arrive in Dhaka with 28 crew members.
9 March 2022, 08:35 AM
Carelessly discarded cigarette butts 3rd top cause of fires in 2021: Fire Service
Not only responsible for causing cancer, heart, and lung diseases, cigarettes have been listed as the third highest cause behind frequent fires in the country, after short circuits and burners, according to a report.
8 February 2022, 14:41 PM
Isolated incident or widespread practice?
Amid the ongoing student protests for safe roads, the teen demonstrators came across someone similar to their age driving a microbus, while the actual driver was dead asleep.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Teenager driving microbus while driver sleeping in the back
A teenage boy was driving a microbus, trying to go through the Rampura Bridge area, this afternoon. Driver of the vehicle was found sleeping in the back.
1 December 2021, 09:30 AM