Four children from Bakerganj in Barishal, who were arrested in a rape case, have been handed over to their parents yesterday after they were released from Jashore Children Development Centre in line with a High Court directive issued on Thursday night.

Idol artisans in Barishal are not getting expected price ahead of Durga Puja amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A 22-year-old housewife has been gang-raped by around eight to ten people, most of them CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers in Chandgaon area of Chattogram city. Police have arrested eight people in a case filed in this connection.

Police have arrested five people on charges of gang-raping a housewife and held another man for raping three children in two separate incidents in Savar’s Ashulia.

Mystery shrouds the death of a housewife in a house in Dhaka’s Nikunja area this morning.

Two persons died in separate accidents in Dhaka early yesterday, while two more lives were lost on the road in Khulna.

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday said strict laws have to be enacted and enforced as well as exemplary punishment for rapists must be ensured as soon as possible.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to freeze 88 bank accounts of five accused, including a former Awami League leader of Faridpur in a Tk 2,000-crore money laundering case.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for the lower court concerned to resume the trial proceedings of a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.

A man allegedly sexually abused four children over the course of a week, luring them with candy, in the capital’s Khilgaon area.

Two accused among 15 in a case for gang-raping a girl and assaulting another in Savar confessed to court of the crime yesterday.

It’s not a regular restaurant. You won’t see the usual imagery of a shabby hotel here. No waiters running around like shuttle trains, no customers haggling with cash counter supervisors over a bill. It’s so different in fact, that it doesn’t even run on monetary exchange!

A woman can’t really walk through the city streets alone without feeling that uneasy need to look over the shoulder. Bangladesh saw an increase in rape by 19 percent from 2018 to 2019. This year seems to be competing with incidents of sexual assault, kidnapping and violence against women and children. Following are a list of personal safety apps that that are a no-brainer for women that need to increase their chances of safety while travelling.

Three years have passed since BCL leader of Chattogram city unit Sudipto Biswas was brutally killed, his family still awaits justice.

The Supreme Court yesterday modified its verdict in the sensational Gopal Krishna Muhuri murder case of Chattogram.

Around 50 percent of irregularities at the Supreme Court will be reduced if cases are filed centrally, said Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Wednesday.

A Dhaka court today rejected the bail petition of JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd’s Chairman Md Abdur Razzak in a case filed on charge of supplying fake N95 masks to the Central Medical Store Depot (CMSD).

Police arrested an Ansar member and two others over a fake job appointment letter from Dhaka Medical College Hospital premises today.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of the government to take necessary steps making sure movement of people and public transport is not affected during the truck and covered van strike on October 12 and 13.

Students and teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in Dhaka demonstrated against rape and sexual abuse of women and children, including the recent gang-rape of a Noakhali woman.