The Cabinet Division has sought actions over violations of the electoral code of conduct for local body polls by the Faridpur-4 lawmaker and a newly elected upazila chairman.

Much-talked-about expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon have been sentenced to 27 years’ rigorous imprisonment in an arms case.

Amid countrywide protests denouncing violence against women, the cabinet yesterday approved the draft of Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020, incorporating the provision of capital punishment for rape.

Three days after the appointment of senior lawyer AM Amin Uddin as the new attorney general for the state, two additional attorney generals -- Murad Reza and Momtaz Uddin Fakir -- yesterday resigned without citing any specific reasons.

Amid countrywide protests over the growing incidents of rape and violence against women, actor Ananta Jalil in a video posted Saturday night blamed “revealing dresses” worn by women for inviting “unwanted sexual advances”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed government officials to refrain from the unnecessary expenditure of public money as she feared a second wave of Covid-19 in the coming days.

At least eight people have been arrested since Saturday in connection with rape incidents in five districts, while a Sunamganj court yesterday remanded six accused in a gang-rape and abduction case.

It is called Old Khowai and as if to justify its name, it is on its deathbed being deserted by all.

The mysterious death of a 33-year-old man, allegedly in police custody in Sylhet city, sparked a protest yesterday.

Abandoned by her husband and struggling to feed her two children, Nazma Begum thought moving overseas for work would change her life.

Various political parties, students, youth and rights activists protesting over this past week have stated their demands -- including expedited police investigations and trials of rapists to ensure justice for victims and amending the Evidence Act to end victim blaming.

As per the record, Panchakhanda Basudeva Angan, a millennium-old temple in Supatala village of Sylhet’s Beanibazar, housed only a Basudeva statue.

Around 2.8 lakh Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) students, under Bangladesh Technical Education Board, are uncertain as to how they would be graded in the newly adapted HSC grading system.

The Covid-19 death toll reached 5,500 as the health directorate reported 23 deaths in the past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

Anti-rape protests continued across the country for the sixth consecutive day yesterday as different socio-cultural and rights organisations took to the streets to condemn the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women.

Against a backdrop of ongoing countrywide outrage and protests against rape, the prime accused of a gang-rape of a teenage girl from Lalmonirhat was arrested on Friday night, and a demonstration was held yesterday demanding justice for the murder of a woman in Dinajpur, killed allegedly after rape.

No conversation about rape is complete without recognising this: marital rape, and underage marriage “under special circumstances” are both legal in this country.

While 81 migrant workers returning from Vietnam were incarcerated for more than a month, before finally being released from prison over this past week, the recruiting agents who sent them to the Southeast Asian country in the first place are going scot-free and denying all claims of trafficking.

Rush for tickets to Saudi Arabia went down to some extent after the number of flights was increased, but Bangladeshis seeking to go to the Arab country are not getting enough time to get tested for Covid-19 due to tight flight schedule.

People from different walks of life, including teachers, students, politicians and right activists, yesterday took to the streets in the capital and demanded exemplary punishment of rapists and their patrons.