A Dhaka court today sent four employees of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital to jail in a case filed over the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Mohammad Anisul Karim on November 9.

No government physician will be allowed to serve at private healthcare organisations during office hour.

The verdict in the case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital's Kurmitola on January 5 will be delivered tomorrow.

A court in Barguna has sentenced a man to life in prison and fined him Tk 2 lakh for raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl 11 years ago.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today urged shop owners and business establishments to close shops by 8:00pm every day.

Twenty-one people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours taking the total number of deaths to 6,275, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A student of class ten was forcibly picked up and raped on her way home from tuition this morning in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat, police said.

Some of them reached out to the homeless, the distressed with help when everyone was supposed to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak.

Power supply is likely to be restored in Sylhet and Sunamganj on completion of the repair work at Kumargaon Power Plant, engineers said today.

The High Court today granted anticipatory bail to 120 BNP leaders and activists including Gayeshwar Chandra Roy till January 5 in 11 cases filed for torching buses in Dhaka on November 12.

The body of a newborn was found in a pond this morning, three days after the 17-day-old was missing from her parents' home in Morelganj upazila of Bagerhat.

Independent MP of Bogura-7 Md Rezaul Karim Bablu has said in parliament that feminists are to blame for the increase in rape incidents around the country, even resorting to comparing women to tamarinds in line with a religious cleric’s words in 2013.

Bangladesh can never budge from its founding principle of secularism, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT advisor and CRI chairperson Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

A schoolgirl was abducted allegedly by one of her neighbours in Sadar upazila on Friday.

At least 60 illegal structures on the land of Roads and Highways Department (RHD), beside the Dhaka-Khulna Highway, in Madhukhali upazila were demolished during an eviction drive of the department concerned yesterday.

Farmers participating in a test cultivation of BRRI-87, a variety of Aman rice, in Baniary village under Nazirpur upazila, are delighted after reaping more than double the harvest than the local variety.

A case was filed in connection with the rape of a thirteen-year-old girl in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila.

The US-Bangla Airlines tonight operated its maiden flight on the Sylhet-Muscat route.

A section of candidates for advocateship staged a sit-in near the residence of Law Minister Anisul Huq at Banani in Dhaka today demanding their enrolment as lawyers through viva voce without any written tests.

The 'Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020' was passed in Parliament today ensuring death penalty as the highest punishment for rape.