This is pretty much what Shahin Alam heard, when he arrived at Karwan Bazar in search of work.

The man who was arrested for raping a Dhaka University (DU) student claimed to be a serial rapist, Rapid Action Battalion says.

Various human rights and socio-cultural organisations believe it is a culture of impunity that has lead to a recurrence in violent incidents including sexual harassment and rape in the country.

Teachers and students of Dhaka University have demanded speedy trial and capital punishment for the person who raped and tortured a second-year student of the university in Dhaka’s Kurmitola on Sunday night.

“Take our dead bodies, give us our money back”, “We want to eat, we want to live”, “Give us food or we shall eat the constitution” -- these are the slogans imprinted on banners hanging all over Khalishpur. This part of Khulna city is host to nine state-run jute mills.

Students of Dhaka University have been continuing their demonstration for the second consecutive day protesting the rape of one of their fellow students in Kurmitola on Airport Road Sunday night.

This is the story of a youth from Jhenidah district of Bangladesh who has achieved success by cultivating and selling oranges of Darjeeling variety.

Just a month ago, villagers in Tilokpur village in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna have been spending restless nights owing to the growing crime in their neighbourhood.

Plastic was invented to make daily life easy. But over the time it has become a big threat to human and environment. BD Clean, a youth organisation, is working on cleaning plastic wastes in different cities of the country and making people aware about it.

Pabna farmers are cultivating more land for the second season of onion eyeing the high price of the spice in the market, forgetting the loss they had suffered from their flood-hit crops in the September-October season.

Today is the last day for submission of nomination papers for Dhaka North and South City Corporations elections.

Established in August, 1979, Miles had become a household name within a few years, thanks to their out-of-the-box compositions, bringing about a new wave of pop-rock sound in Bangladesh.

Widowed 50-year-old tea worker Lakhpothy Bhor of Tilokpur tea garden in Kulaura upazila could not afford medical treatment on her meagre earnings. Her first child died after birth, more than 20 years ago. Her husband became sick and died not long after.

Bholaganj Sada Pathor, around 35 kilometres away from the Sylhet city, has turned into a new destination for the tourists. The beautiful place located at the end of Sylhet-Companiganj-Bholaganj highway attracts hundreds of tourists a day.

Mir Umaima Hoque, a seventh grader of Nalanda High School and Abrar Shahid, a sixth grader of Chattogram Cantonment Public College won gold medal at this year’s International Robot Olympiad in Thailand.

An unexploded crude bomb is found in front of Madhur Canteen on Dhaka University campus.

The water was once so clear that you could see to the bottom. Locals used to drink water from the canal and also bathed in it. Now what one would find there is black liquid flowing down the river. It smells so bad that it is hard to stand beside it, said Tara Mia, an elderly man from Barabari village.

Members of Christian faith are celebrating Christmas Day at home and abroad commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ.

The authorities yesterday launched a massive eviction drive against illegal occupiers of river lands in different districts across the country.

Satyabati Bakti, 95, a blind retired tea-worker of Chandpur tea estate, is ready to take a bullet to protect her farmland.