Three firefighting units have brought under control a fire that erupted at a building on Dilu Road in Maghbazar in the capital on Thursday night. The fire spread to the nearby slum, gutting four ...

Five earthquakes in a week, all originating in Narsingdi, a district near Dhaka, have rattled residents of the capital and ...

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya said Thursday that the bureaucracy played a major role in enabling the previous government’s ...

IMPHAL, Nov 27A mild earthquake registering 3.5 on the Richter scale rattled the tranquil town of Noney this Thursday morning. The National Centre for Seismology revealed that the tremor originated at ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck the Indian Ocean on Thursday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).

With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, Indonesian capital Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 struck Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, as reported by the National Center for Seismology ...

Authorities and local media in Bangladesh say that a 5.5 magnitude earthquake killed at least eight people and left more than ...

More than two and a half years have passed since 42 buildings in Dhaka, Gazipur, and Narayanganj were declared "highly risky" and ordered to be demolished within three months. Only two have been torn ...

The fate of a megacity like Dhaka facing a potential major earthquake depends on its level of preparation, scientific insight, and coordinated action, says the writer. Without these, she adds, an ...

Friday's severe earthquakes damaged at least 300 buildings in Dhaka, with 25 partially collapsed. Among them, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has identified five as extremely dangerous and ...