Most of the accused of 25 rape cases, filed between 2012 and 2016, are out on bail though bail is not applicable for punishable offence under Women and Children Repression Act 2000, according to findings by Manusher Jonno Foundation.

Direct train services from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar will be launched by December next year, Railway Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan said today.

The government has not only contained militancy but is also working to bring militants back to a normal life, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today.

The first consignment of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, produced by Serum Institute of India (SII), will reach Dhaka on January 25 or 26, health minister Zahid Maleque said this afternoon.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today, seeking its order on the government to amend the relevant law treating the violation of males as rape.

Police recovered the body of councillor candidate Alamgir Khan Babu, of ward-8 under Jhenidah's Shailakupa upazila, hours after brother of the rival candidate was hacked to death last night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have detained five alleged gamblers in Ashulia of Savar.

A female employee of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) has secured bail in a defamation case of Tk 100 crore filed against her by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government is sending allowances under social safety net (SSN) programmes directly to the beneficiaries’ mobile wallets to get rid of middlemen.

At least 500 homes were gutted in a fire that broke out at Noyapara Rohingya camp in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar early today, camp in-charge Abdul Hannan said.

A lane of Dhaka-Aricha highway, on Savar’s Salehpur bridge, was closed after cracks developed in its girder yesterday afternoon.

Awami League-led government used the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to censor free speech and crack down on critics in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2021 yesterday.

Dhaka has termed Washington’s remarks that terrorist group al-Qaeda carried out attacks from Bangladesh as irresponsible and unfounded.

Police yesterday recovered three dead bodies, including a young woman, from different spots in Natore and Naogaon.

Frustrated over their families decision two teenagers, who were in a relationship, took their own lives by taking poison at Tungibaria village in Rangabali upazila on Tuesday.

A housewife was stabbed allegedly by a local union parishad (UP) member in Jashore’s Chaugachha upazila on Tuesday night as she rejected his illicit proposal.

Before every public election in Joychondi union of Kulaura upazila over the last 47 years, many contenders made the promise.

A local influential man continued constructing a concrete wall occupying front side of a market, erected on a private land, near Kalaiya Launch Terminal in Baufal upazila.

As of 2019, according to the World Bank, 45% of the tertiary education enrollments have been in the private sector tertiary education institutions. Besides, the enhanced world-class curriculum offered by some of these institutions has helped shape a strong workforce for this fast-growing economy. One of the visionaries who has played a significant role in promoting tertiary level education in Bangladesh in the private sector is the founder of East West University, Dr Mohammed Farashuddin.

Bangladesh has so far sequenced 304 genomes of Covid-19 and submitted them to Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID).