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Train-bus collision in N'ganj: Another injured dies, death toll now 4
One more person, injured after a train hit a bus that got stuck between the gates of a level crossing in Narayanganj yesterday evening, died at a Dhaka hospital this morning.
27 December 2021, 06:22 AM
Launch Fire: Petitions seek HC directives to compensate victims
Two writ petitions were filed with the High Court yesterday, seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to give adequate compensations to the families of victims affected by the deadly fire on the MV Abhijan-10 launch.
26 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Three die as train rams bus
Three people, including a child, were killed and at least nine others injured after a train rammed a bus that got stuck between the gates of a level crossing in Narayanganj yesterday evening.
26 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Launch Fire Tragedy: 3 on life support in Dhaka
Three people, who suffered burns in the fire inside MV Abhijan-10 on early Friday, were on life support at the capital’s Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery yesterday.
26 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Helper run over by his own bus
A passenger bus helper was crushed to death on the Mollakhali Bailey Bridge area on Patuakhali-Dumki road by the same bus he worked for yesterday.
26 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Fire on launch: Probe body records statements of 22 eyewitnesses
The probe body formed by the shipping ministry has recorded statements of 22 eyewitnesses in connection with the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire at Jhalakathi that left at least 41 people dead.
26 December 2021, 14:26 PM
Train-bus collision leaves 3 dead, 9 injured in Narayanganj
Three people were killed and nine others injured after a train rammed into a bus stuck between two signal bars at a level crossing in Narayanganj this evening.
26 December 2021, 13:51 PM
Jhalakathi launch fire: Petition seeks Tk 50 lakh compensation for each victim
A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to give Tk 50 lakh as compensation to the families of each victim who died in the deadly fire on the MV Abhijan-10 launch and Tk 20 lakh for each critically injured victim.
26 December 2021, 07:54 AM
In hospital bed, they recall the horror
When the massive fire engulfed the ill-fated MV Abhijan-10 early Friday, Monika Rani Halder, 40, a high-school teacher of Barguna, could not find her 16-year-old son after a desperate search for 30 minutes in the launch.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Launch Fire on Sugandha River: Everything they did was wrong
A probe committee investigating the deadly fire on the MV Abhijan-10 has found engine faults that might have caused the fire.
The two engines were changed last month without following the rules, officials said yesterday.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Example of miscarriage of law, order
Monoranjan Hajong, the father of traffic police sergeant Mohua Hajong, lost one of his legs after getting hit by a car on December 3 at the capital’s Chairman Bari area.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Bodies of siblings found in Sangu
Firefighters yesterday found the bodies of the brother and sister who were swept away by the strong current of the Sangu in Rowangchhari, Bandarban, on Friday afternoon.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Ctg Shipbreaking Yard: 4 workers burnt in gas explosion
At least four workers sustained burn injuries in a gas explosion at Jamuna shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday morning.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Who will marry off Hafsa now?
Pakhi and Hakim Sharif were done choosing a groom for their elder daughter Hafsa.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Bodies of twins identified, mother still missing
They were on their way to visit their grandfather’s house in Barguna’s Taltoli upazila. But as luck would have it, four year old twins Samia and Lamia never reached there, as they died in the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
She slipped right through my fingers
As Hafeez Tuhin leapt from the launch after it had caught fire, he was still holding his wife Rizia Begum and their baby girl Tabassum’s hands.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Diakul villagers step up for victims
“Hearing screams emanating from Sugandha river, my neighbours and I got up from our beds. It was obvious that something was wrong,” Md Aliul Islam Akan, a local of Diakul village of Jhalakathi Sadar upazila, recounted.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Jhalakathi launch fire: Death toll now 41
Death toll from the fire on a launch in Jhalakathi now stands at 41, Saiful Hasan Badal, divisional commissioner of Barishal, confirmed to The Daily Star today.
25 December 2021, 15:35 PM
Missing siblings found dead in Bandarban’s Sangu river
Two siblings, who went missing in the Sangu river in Bandarban's Rowangchhari upazila yesterday, were found dead today.
25 December 2021, 12:44 PM
Jhalakathi launch fire: Probe team finds engine problem
A probe body, formed by the Ministry of Shipping to investigate the fire that broke out on the MV Abhijan-10 launch in the Sugandha river in Jhalakathi, has found some problems in the engine.
25 December 2021, 11:48 AM