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CCTV footage youth on his way to set fire to two motifs at Dhaka University's Fine Arts faculty on 12 April 2025. Photo: Screengrab
Bangladesh

CCTV footage shows how a youth set fire to Pahela Baishakh motifs at DU

The youth, wearing a black t-shirt and khaki-coloured pants, then set fire to the motifs and exited the premises by climbing back over the wall within two minutes, shows the video

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Chief Sajjat Ali while talking to reporters after inspecting security measures at Ramna Park ahead of Pahela Baishakh celebrations on 13 April 2025. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Bangladesh

DMP identifies DU arsonist, arrest expected before Pahela Baishakh procession

Two motifs built for Pahela Baishakh celebrations were torched by an unidentified individual inside Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts on 12 April 2025. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain/TBS
Bangladesh

Police looking for unidentified youth who climbed DU Fine Arts Faculty wall, set fire to Pahela Baishakh motifs

A file photo of Cultural Adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki speaking at a press conference at his office. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Farooki blames 'Hasina's cohorts' for arson attack on Pahela Baishakh motifs

Construction workers Shakil Mohammad (right) and Ramesh Kumar helped to save some of the children from the shophouse fire on 8 April 2025. Photo: The Straits Times
Bangladesh

Bangladeshi worker saves children from shophouse fire in Singapore

Bagerhat building on fire on 7 April. Photo: Ali Akbar Tutul/TBS
Bangladesh

Fire at Bagerhat building kills one, 80 rescued

Representational image of burning file/Collected
Bangladesh

Fire in Bangshal leaves 18 injured

Firefighters work to douse the flames in the capital's Shahbagh. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

Shahbagh flower market fire brought under control

Representational image of burning file/Collected
Bangladesh

Fire guts 19 shops in Madaripur market

Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Fire guts power car of moving train in Gazipur

Photo: Google Maps
Bangladesh

20 shops gutted in N'ganj furniture market fire

Flames and smoke rise from a fire after a gas pipeline operated by Malaysia's state energy firm Petronas caught fire, in Puchong, Malaysia April 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer
Asia

Dozens in hospital in Malaysia after towering blaze on Petronas gas pipeline

A general view of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Housewife burns to death after saree catches fire while cooking on Eid day