Gazipur factory boiler blast kills 5
At least five people, including a woman, were killed and 10 injured in a boiler explosion in a factory in Gazipur near Dhaka yesterday.
Bangladesh falls one notch in Democracy Index
Bangladesh was ranked 86th in the Index of Democracy 2015 of the Economist Intelligence Unit, down one spot from the previous year.
Four dead in worst Canada school shooting in a decade
The gunman suspected of killing four people and injuring several others in Canada’s worst school violence in a decade first shot his two brothers at home before opening fire at the remote community high school, a family friend and the town’s acting mayor said on Friday.
2 US teens arrested in beating of Bangladeshi man
The New York police have arrested two teenage boys on charge of beating a Bangladeshi man up, reported New York Daily News.
Planning Ministry for common CSR guidelines
The government is set to formulate a common guideline to regulate how profitable companies spend money on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Ershad to sit with PM before quitting as special envoy
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said that he did not want to quit the post of prime minister’s special envoy without consulting the premier, Sheikh Hasina.
