France on Monday signaled its willingness to work with Bangladesh on civil defence preparedness in the wake of the recent Dhaka earthquake.

RAJUK’S chief town planner M Ashraful Islam told BSS over the phone a primary survey of theirs across the capital found the ...

Rajuk Chairman Riazul Islam today announced that approximately 300 small and large buildings in Dhaka have been identified as vulnerable following the recent earthquakes.

Here are the major updates from Ludhiana today — covering civic updates, traffic and metro alerts, weather conditions, and ...

Among these, 2,705 educational institutions, 207 hospitals, 36 police stations, and 307 other buildings have undergone the ...

Experts warn that Tangail, Mymensingh, Gazipur and Dhaka lie directly in the danger zone of the active Madhupur Fault, ...

I was born in Bangladesh, but I have lived in Luton for many years. My life is here now, yet a part of me always remains in ...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor on Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Monday directed RAJUK and the City Corporation to be strict if it is necessary in assessing the risk of buildings in the ...

Dhaka and Bangladesh's other densely populated cities stand exposed to alarming seismic hazards—an uncomfortable truth underscored by the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that rattled the nation on November ...

A technical inspection by the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), has uncovered a series of critical structural and ...

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 ...

The energy stored beneath Bangladesh will be released eventually; we cannot prevent earthquakes, but we can minimise ...