Fire breaks out at Gulshan-1 DNCC market
A huge fire broke out at the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan-1 in the early hours on Saturday, triggering fears of a fresh tragedy.
Tales of survivors, rescuers underline serious safety flaws
Abdus Sabur Khan, an employee of EUR Service (BD) Limited, learnt the truth the hard way during Banani Faruk Rupayan Tower fire. The building neither had any fire alarm, nor did the employees who worked there ever receive any training in fire safety.
It’s murder, not accident, says minister
Housing and public works minister SM Rezaul Karim on Friday said Banani high-rise building fire that killed 25 people and injured more than 100 on Thursday was not merely an accident rather manslaughter.
Follow ‘building code’ properly: PM
Against the backdrop of a number of fires in the country in recent times, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked all concerned to follow the ‘building code’ properly in constructing buildings and other establishments.
Kamal wants nat’l commission to probe Banani fire
Gono Forum president Kamal Hossain on Friday said a national commission should be formed to investigate the fire incident at 23-storey FR Tower building at Banani in Dhaka on Thursday that claimed at least 25 lives.
May seeks third vote in Brexit crisis
The British government said it intended to put prime minister Theresa May’s twice-rejected Brexit deal to a third parliamentary vote on Friday to avoid a chaotic no-deal divorce from the EU in two weeks.
India on eve of parliamentary elections
MARCH 10 saw the publication of the official schedule for the elections to the lower house of India’s parliament, which are an extremely important event in the country’s political life. They may
Israel’s moves to the right
AN ARTICLE published in the Israeli news blog +972 on November 19, 2018 posed the question: Why does the right keep winning elections in Israel? The answer offered was ‘because Israelis are right wing.’ Simple enough, and apparently, quite true. The article estimates that over half of Israeli
19 killed in Banani building fire
At least 19 people, including a Sri Lankan national, was killed, over 100 were injured and scores were reportedly missing as fire tore through a 23-storey commercial building at Banani in Dhaka on Thursday.
FR Tower added 5 more floors flouting building code
The 23-floor FR Tower on the Kemal Ataturk Avenue in Banani added five additional floors as part of an extension flouting building code of Rajdhani Unyayan Kartripakkhya, Rajuk in short.
