Describing rapists as “beasts”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government has to induct the death sentence in the relevant law to save girls from these beasts.

The authorities of National University have suspended four students who are accused in a case filed over the gang rape of a woman at Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet.

The government has imposed a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting of hilsa from midnight (October 14) to protect safe spawning of the fish during its peak breeding period.

Lawmaker of Thakurgaon-1 constituency Ramesh Chandra Sen yesterday inaugurated 34 newly-built academic buildings of different government primary and high schools in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila.

Lal Shapla Beel is abuzz with tourists, much to the happiness of local traders. The 15-km-long wetland, where thousands of water lilies of pink colour are in bloom for five months every year, is located in Satla union under Uzirpur upazila and Bagdha union under Agailjhara upazila of Barishal district.

Those days of eligible aspirants watching their much-needed social security allowances being pocketed by the rich and the powerful might be over soon.

Police detained a man and seized huge Indian fake currency from Pukuria area in Shibganj upazila of the district early yesterday.

A housewife was killed by her husband and in-laws allegedly over family feud in Kaharol upazila of the district on Sunday.

Police arrested the prime accused in connecting with a case for killing three of a family in Galachipa upazila of the district 3 years back.

Italy has agreed to include Bangladeshis in their Farm Workers programme responding to a request from Bangladesh.

Two people were killed and five others injured after two buses collided on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway at Munshiganj's Louhajang upazila today.

A case has been filed in connection with the death -- allegedly in police custody -- of Rayhan Ahmed at Bandarbazar Police Outpost in Sylhet city early Sunday. The authorities also suspended four policemen, including the in-charge of Bandarbazar Police Outpost Sub-Inspector Akbar Hossain, in this connection.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) today arrested another accused in connection with the torture and gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.

Air Arabia authorities have given an opportunity to 112 Bangladeshi expatriates, who were sent back from Abu Dhabi airport earlier, to fly back to the United Arab Emirates without paying any airfare.

The 22-day ban on catching and selling hilsa is set to start from October 14 and will continue to November 4. The government imposed the ban in a bid to protect mother fish during peak breeding season.

Italy won’t allow Bangladeshi citizens in till December 31, due to the “previous behaviour” of Bangladeshi expatriates and fear of a possible second wave of Covid-19, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said today.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said an ordinance will be promulgated tomorrow on the amendment of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, incorporating the provision of death penalty for rape so that the law can be applied quickly.

Bangladesh will raise the Rohingya issue during a visit by US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun and seek stronger global support, especially from the United States, for the quick repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

Senior military officials of India and China today held their seventh round of talks with the sole agenda of finalising a roadmap for disengagement of troops from all the friction points in eastern Ladakh as the border standoff entered the sixth month with an early resolution to the row appearing dim.

The High Court today directed the authorities of electricity suppliers to cancel the inflated electricity bills from February to June and to prepare customised bills based on actual metre-reading for each consumer.