Four burnt in explosion caused by gas leak in Dhamrai
Four people, including a child and two women, were injured in an explosion and fire in a multi-storey building in Munshiganj’s Sadar upazila on Saturday. The incident took place around 6.30 pm on the fourth floor of a multi-storey residential building adjacent to the Sadar Upazila Parishad in Idrakpur area of Munshiganj town. The injured […]
A leader of the Jubo League, the youth wing of the ruling Awami League, was injured in a crude bomb blast near the party’s central office on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. The injured, 40-year-old Riyadur Rashid, is a member of ward number 12. 13 of Paltan Police Station Jubo League. The incident occurred on […]
According to the statement of the case, people from BNP gathered in front of Prasad Trade Center on Kamal Atatürk Avenue on September 19, 2018 under the pretext of organizing a human chain. They spread terror in the area, vandalized vehicles passing by and detonated crude bombs. On receiving the information, the police went to […]
Turkish jets carried out airstrikes inside Iraqi Kurdistan late Sunday, the same day an explosion wounded two police officers near the parliament building in Ankara. In the hours after the bombing, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had already vowed that “terrorists” would never achieve their goal. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist […]
No group ever claimed responsibility for the attack, although three men from the banned sectarian Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group were convicted. Balochistan, Pakistan’s least populous province, is also home to several militant groups fighting for independence or a greater share of the region’s mineral resources. Pakistan’s Taliban, which has stepped up attacks on military and government targets […]
Azerbaijan has promised equal treatment to residents of the majority ethnic Armenian enclave and has sent aid. Adding to humanitarian concerns, the separatist government said on Tuesday that 13 bodies had been found at the site of a fuel depot explosion on Monday and seven more had died of their injuries. A statement said 290 […]
Farida Begum, a neighbour, said she woke up during the massive explosion and saw the walls of the fifth floor collapsing. The burn victims include Sabuj Khandkar, 25, owner of a hosiery factory in Kashipur; Rana Miya, 30, a garment worker; his wife Bithi Akhtar, 18; and his daughter. Besides, local fruit traders Abu Kalam […]
In the new study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the international team of researchers set out what they believe is the most likely scenario. Their theory is that a giant, single cloud of gas – about 5,000 times the mass of the Sun – is slowly being consumed by a supermassive […]
DMCH police station in-charge Bachu Miya said that six of the burn patients have been admitted to the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery and the remaining three to the burn unit of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment. According to the hospital, the burnt persons are: Jagannath University student […]
It showed that the amount of methane gas in Dhaka’s atmosphere increased by 21.1 ppb (parts per billion) during that time period. It was 22.5 ppb in Karachi over the same time period. Speaking to Prothom Allo, James J Shaver, head of the research team and professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said, […]
