Mayor of Barguna municipality Advocate Kamrul Ahsan Maharaj was injured as his car fell into a roadside ditch when he was going to attend the opening ceremony of coal-fired Payra power plant in Patuakhali today.

Death toll from Narayanganj launch capsize has raised to eight as two more bodies were recovered today.

Four people were killed and another injured as a truck rammed a private car on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram early today.

Sunken launch “MV Afsar Uddin” was recovered from Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj early today.

At least six individuals died and 20 others went missing after a large cargo vessel rammed a launch on the Shitalakkhya, making it sink within seconds yesterday.

A Narayanganj court yesterday sentenced four people to death and two others to life-term imprisonment for killing Emon Hossain (13) in 2013.

“The cargo vessel MV Rupshi-9, which hit the launch ML Afsar Uddin in the Shitalakkhya River in Narayanganj Sadar upazila today, was 2-3 feet away. Then, some of us went to the driver of the launch and told him that ‘the cargo vessel is about to hit the launch’. But he rebuked us saying that nothing will happen. Later, we jumped from the launch. If we stayed two or three more minutes in the launch, we would sink in the water along with the launch. Within 30-40 seconds, the cargo vessel pushed the launch.”

The fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka's Kalyanpur area last night has been doused.

Fire Service and Civil Defence has halted rescue operations at the site of the launch capsize in Shitalakkhya River in Narayanganj.

A team of River Police has seized the cargo vessel MV Rupshi-9 which hit the launch ML Afsar Uddin in the Shitalakkhya River in Narayanganj Sadar upazila today, sinking it and killing six people.

Two separate committees have been formed to investigate the launch capsize in Shitalakkhya River in Narayanganj today.

At least six peopele including three women were killed and 20 people still missing after a launch capsized in the Shitalakkhya River in Narayanganj Sadar upazila today.

Two persons were killed when their motorcycle rammed into a truck, which was parked beside a road in Dinajpur Sadar upazila early today.

A schoolboy drowned and two others went missing after they went to bathe in the Jamuna and Fuljor rivers in Sirajganj on Friday.

Three people were killed after being hit by a stolen truck at Madhabpur Sadar upazila in Habiganj yesterday morning.

A fire broke out at a garment factory inside the old Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Savar this evening.

Three people died when a truck hit a battery-run three-wheeler on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj this morning.  

A lighter vessel, capsized carrying cement clinker, capsized near Patenga sea beach in Chattogram early today.

A fire that broke out at a plastic factory in Dhaka’s Bangshal area this afternoon was doused.

A pedestrian has died after an iron sheet fell on him during government’s construction work in Chattogram city last night.