It was 1:05pm on a glacial Thursday afternoon when my phone rang. It was an acquaintance who worked in an office in Banani. He shouted frantically into the phone: “The building next to me has caught ...

Thirteen bodies were found inside the 23-storey FR Tower on Kamal Ataturk Avenue after the fire was doused following four hours of efforts on Thursday afternoon, the Fire Service and Civil Defence ...

A Dhaka court today relieved Mukul Liakat Ali Khan alias Mukul, chairman of Rupayan Group, from the charges of a case filed over a devastating fire that ripped through the 22-storey FR Tower in the ...

The fire, which started in the Chairman Bari area around 9:15 am on Saturday, was brought under control almost four hours later, the fire service said. Fifteen fire service units are working to put ...

At least 17 people have been killed and about 70 injured after a huge fire broke out at a skyscraper in Bangladesh's capital. Flames began to rip through the 19-storey FR Tower, in Dhaka's Banani area ...

The flames enveloped a 22-story skyscraper. The building was illegal because the builder had received permission for 18 floors. Most people managed to escape by jumping out the windows. Dhaka ...

(MENAFN- Colombo Gazette) At least 19 people, including a Sri Lankan citizen, were killed and 70 others injured in a fire that broke out at FR Tower in Dhaka's Banani area in Bangladesh this afternoon ...

The European Union has called on the government of Bangladesh to implement garment factory safety standards at all commercial buildings in the country, following the second building fire in under a ...