For a good part of the day today, eight out of the top ten reports on The Daily Star’s website were of some incident of rape or sexual assault. These included the rapes of children, of a woman with five children, and also a special needs child. Now the big question is how many more reports need to come in, before an all-out measure is taken?

Urging against confusion, State Minister for Labor and Employment Begum Mannujan Sufian today said the government will bring all state-run jute mills, that have been closed down, into production as soon as possible

US President Donald Trump has begun a fourth day of treatment for Covid-19 at a military hospital outside Washington, with the severity of his illness unclear barely four weeks before Americans go to the polls to decide whether to reelect him.

Dhaka has requested Kuwait to start flights allowing migrants stranded in Bangladesh to return to their workplace in the Gulf nation.

China told a World Trade Organization meeting that restrictions by the United States on Chinese mobile applications TikTok and WeChat are in violation of the body’s rules, a trade official has said.

Saying she is moved immensely by unnatural death of any child across the globe, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sounded a note of warning against child repression.

The High Court has granted anticipatory bail for four weeks to former Awami League lawmaker from Pirojpur AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parveen in two separate corruption cases.

Roughly one in 10 people may have been infected with the coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world's population vulnerable to the Covid-19 disease it causes, the World Health Organization said today.

A Dhaka court today took cognisance of the charges against GK Shamim, a top contractor of government projects, and his seven bodyguards in a money laundering case.

The US Embassy in Dhaka has started accepting interview-waiver applications for B1/B2 (tourism, business, and medical) visas along with non-immigrant visa categories -- C, C1/D, F, I, J, M, O, and Q.

A 48-year-old man was sent to jail today in a case filed over raping his son’s wife for the last two years in Shibganj upazila of Bogura.

India today conveyed support for ensuring safe, sustainable and speedy repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and announced trade concessions to Myanmar as India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Army Chief Gen M M Naravane wrapped up their two-day visit to the South East Asian country.

A woman and a teenaged girl were allegedly raped in separate incidents in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.

The Noakhali woman, who was gang raped and beaten up by criminals in her own home, said local drug dealer Badal had been making indecent proposals to her for a long time now.

The Supreme Court today upheld the High Court orders that stayed trial proceedings of five separate cases filed against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus over sacking five employees of Grameen Communications.

In a bid to ensure more Bangladeshi workers can return to Saudi Arabia, Saudia, formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines, is likely to operate 50 to 60 flights this month from Dhaka.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested three people in connection with a gang-rape case filed with Madarganj Police Station on Sunday night.

Two persons have been arrested in a case filed over the gang-rape of a woman, a mother of five children, in Shamimabad area of Sylhet city.

A case has been filed with Kotalipara Police Station against two people on charge of raping a ninth-grader from Pinjuri union in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila.

The High Court today directed the chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to immediately remove video footage of the gang rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj from social media.