Mass awareness to change people's negative attitudes towards women is required to ensure their security, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday. They said respect towards women should be implanted in children's minds during the early development years (0-3 years) and later through special classes in school.

Children falling victim to abuse, instead of keeping silent which encourages the perpetrators, should name and shame the culprits

Despite widespread protests, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday categorically said the government would not withdraw the value added tax (VAT) imposed on the private universities.

Thousands of private university students took to the streets and blocked traffic in the capital and elsewhere yesterday to press home their demand for lifting the 7.5 percent VAT imposed on their “tuition fees” in the current budget. City dwellers suffered immensely as thousands of students barricaded key points in Rampura, Mohakhali, Baridhara, Dhanmondi and other areas for over six hours since around 10:00am, causing heavy traffic congestion that spilled over to nearby roads and allies.

Traffic problems reaches acute levels in Dhaka after road blockades were set up at several key points by demonstrating public university students.

Bangkok English daily The Nation reports yesterday that Thai police have asked help from Bangladesh through Interpol to locate the

The civil society's concerns about the shrinking space for public engagement should be taken very seriously, said Heiner Bielefeldt, UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief.

At least 35 people were injured in a clash between students of East West University and police in the capital's Badda area yesterday. The students were demonstrating against the VAT imposed on tuition fees of private universities.

The authorities of a garment factory in Gazipur's Konabari suspended its production yesterday after over a hundred of its workers fell sick allegedly after

Detained BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Minu was admitted to the intensive care unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital with "serious chest pain" yesterday, soon after he was administered "local anesthesia" for his root canal treatment.

More than 2,000 illegal easy bikes are operating in Chittagong city, violating a recent ban and adding to traffic congestion and the risk of accidents. Though the battery-run three-wheelers are seen in large numbers, police claimed that they were checking the vehicles' presence. Introduced in 2012, the three-wheelers do not have the fitness certificate and route permit and are unregistered. These are imported from China, and each costs Tk 1.5 lakh locally.

Workers of three readymade garment factories blocked Bayezid Bostami Road in Chittagong city for two hours yesterday demanding their annual earned leave allowance of 20 days.

No new commission would be formed for increasing salaries of government staff, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday.

A bank official, who had been abducted from DEPZ bus stand on Monday evening, was released yesterday in Baruipara of Ashulia in

Forty female students, of Boldighat JM High School in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur, became senseless during lightning yesterday.

Family members of Fauzia Rahman Chapa, who was brutally killed in Barisal 26 years ago, yesterday urged the prime minister not to

Protest against cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife Nrittya Shahadat spilled over onto the street yesterday from social media for torturing their domestic help.

The sharp division between teachers of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust), created around the protest demanding the vice chancellor's removal, is becoming more prominent day by day with one group accusing the other yesterday of pursuing personal interests.

Director General of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Robert S Zeigler visited Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) yesterday in Gazipur, said a press release.

At least three people are injured as a speedy CNG-run auto-rickshaw flips several times after hitting road divider at Hatirjheel in Dhaka.