The fire that broke out in building number 7 of Bangladesh Secretariat has been brought under control, the Fire Service said on Thursday.
It took 19 units of the fire service and scores of fire fighters at least six hours to tame the blaze.
Inspector Anwarul Islam of the Fire Service and Civil Defence media cell said 19 units worked to extinguish the fire.
Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that the devastating fire broke out on the sixth floor of the Building No-7 of the Secretariat and spread to the seventh and eighth floors respectively.
He came up with the information while briefing reporters in front of the Secretariat, the hub of the country administration, on Thursday morning.
The fire was brought under control at 8:05 am Thursday, he added. Fire fighter, identified by one name Nayan, died during the efforts to control the blaze, officials said.
The fire service received information about the fire at the Secretariat building shortly after midnight of Wednesday.
Calling all members of the Public Administration Reform Commission controversial, BCS (Admin) Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd General Secretary Mashiur Rahman has demanded the resignation of the commission.
He made the demand at an event in the capital Eskaton on Wednesday.
The meeting was held in protest of the Public Administration Reform Commission recent recommendation to appoint 50% of deputy secretaries from the administration cadre and rest 50% from the other cadres.
Mashiur, a 1985th batch admin cadre, said he has not seen the reports of any reform commission be implanted in the past, and even the report of the fake commission
(public administration reform commission) will not be implemented now.
BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia is likely to be taken to London in the first week of January for better treatment.
BNP Chairperson personal physician and party Standing Committee Member Professor AZM Zahid Hossain told BSS that at the advice of the medical board, preparations are underway to take Begum Khaleda Zia to London in the first week of January.
However, specific date has not been finalized yet, he added.
Hossain said, "The former prime minister will go to London by an aircraft equipped with modern medical facilities as a team of doctors, some family members and private assistants will also accompany her".
The party will inform later, once the date of her London trip is finalised.
The government today announced a seven-member national independent investigation commission led by former director general of BGB A L M Fazlur Rahman to re-investigate the BDR massacre at Pilkhana on February 25 and 26, 2009.
The Cabinet Division published a gazette notification to this end.
The six other members are - Maj Gen Md Jahangir Alam Talukder (Retd), Brigadier General Md Saidur Rahman, Bir Pratik, (Retd), retired joint secretary Munsi Alauddin Al Azad, retired DIG Dr M Akbar Ali, Md Shariful Islam, Associate Professor of Political Science Department of Dhaka University, Md Shahnewaz Khan Chandan, assistant professor of Institute of Education and Research of Jagannath University.
The commission has been asked to submit its report within 90 days from the publication of the notification.