Robert J. Burrowes A recent report from Equality Now titled ‘The World’s Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic’ offered a series of recommendations for strengthened laws to deter and punish sexual violence against women and girls. However, there is substantial evidence…
Dhaka – Detectives arrested a couple along with two kilograms hemp of from Derua village in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.The arrestees were identified as Bulbul Ahmmed, 40, and his wife China, 25, a resident of the same village.UNB agency
Dhaka – A woman and her younger daughter were injured in an attack allegedly by a stalker and his accomplices at Kandarpara village in Sadar upazila on Monday night.Nurunnhar Begum, mother of the two girls, said she filed a complaint…
Dhaka, Mar 14 – A miscreants stormed into the classroom and beat a female schoolteacher at Dengapara in Patiya upazila of on Tuesday following refusal of his love affair, breaking her two hands and the left leg.
Dhaka – A court here on Tuesday placed 17 suspected members of banned militant outfits Hizb ut-Tahrir, Hizb ut-Tawhid and Ahle Hadith, arrested from different parts of the port city, on a two-day remand.Metropolitan Magistrate Harunur Rahid passed the order…
Dhaka– A miscreants stormed into the classroom and beat a female schoolteacher at Dengapara in Patiya upazila in Chittagong on Tuesday following refusal of his love affair, breaking her two hands and the left leg.The victim is Misfa Sultana, 25,…
Dhaka – Four suspected criminals were killed in a reported gunfight with police at Nurpur intersection in Sadar upazila in Meherpur early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Saddam Hossain, 25, Ramesh, 24, Sohag, 27, and Kanon, 25, residents of…
Dhaka – Police arrested a suspected member of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Gopalpur area in Sadar upazila headquarters in Pabna early Tuesday.UNB agency
Dhaka – Police in a special drive arrested 27 people from different areas of the district on various charges.Acting police super of the district Belayet Hossain said they carried out the drive from Monday night to Tuesday morning in different…
Dhaka- A young man was beaten to death allegedly by a stalker at Paschim Sonabaji in Nawabganj upazila in Keraniganj on Monday night as he reportedly protested the harassment of his niece.The deceased was identified as Bhakta Chandra Sarker, 22.UNB…
Dhaka, Mar 14 – A young man was beaten to death allegedly by a stalker at Paschim Sonabaji in Nawabganj upazila Dhaka on Monday night as he reportedly protested the harassment of his niece.
Dhaka – A youth allegedly stabbed his mother and neighbour to death at Holudia village in Madhupur upazila in Tangail on Monday morning over family feud.The deceased were identified as Minara Begum, 55, wife of Mohammad Ali and their neighbour…
Dhaka – A young man was hacked to death allegedly by his roommate in a mess in Halisahar area of city in Chittagong early Monday.Mahfuzur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Halisahar Police Station, said Masud, 30, hailing from Sandwip upazila of the…
Dhaka – A suspected criminal was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Jahajghat in the city in Rajshahi early Monday.UNB agency
Dhaka – Police arrested 51 people, including an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami, during their overnight drives at different upazilas here in Jhenidah on Sunday night.UNB agency
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four suspected forest robbers of ‘Zia Bahini’ after a gunfight at Katheshwar Khal in the Sundarbans under Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira early Monday.A team of the elite force conducted a drive…
Benapole – Police arrested an alleged terrorist along with 25 hand bombs, arms and bullets from a student mess house adjacent to MM College here on Sunday night.
Benapole – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 1,256 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Putkhali border point here on Monday morning.
Dhaka – Two minor siblings died and four people fell sick after taking tea mistakenly made with pesticide instead of tea leaves at Harinda village in Sadar upazila on Sunday.The deceased were identified as Sohan, 7, and his sister Sohana,…
Dhaka – Police arrested a young man along with three hand bombs from Kalidaspur village in Alamdanga upazila early Sunday. Tipped off, a team of police raided the house of Tutul Hossain, 30, son of Shahidul Islam, and arrested him…
Dhaka– Police in a drive arrested 17 suspected members of Jamaat-e-Islami, banned militant outfits Hizb ut-Tahrir and Ahle Hadith from Jhornapar in the city on Saturday afternoon.UNB agency
Dhaka – Police in separate drives arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Hizb-ut-Tahrir from Baghmara and Poba upazilas here early Sunday.Officer-in-charge (OC) of Bagmara Police Station Nasim Ahmed said a team of police…
Dhaka – Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested four suspected drug traders, including two women, along with one kilogram heroin from different places in the city on Friday.The arrestees were Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman alias Bakul, Mahammad Jahurul Islam, Mita…
Dhaka – An unidentified teenage girl was killed falling into a manhole at bypass intersection in the city on Saturday morning.Md Jakir Hossain, sub-inspector of Joydebpur Police Station, said the girl was waiting for a bus standing on the slab…
Dhaka –Police arrested seven suspected activists of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Rajshahi and Natore districts on Saturday.In Rajshahi, police arrested five suspected activists of the JMB from different areas of Bagmara upazila early in the…
Dhaka – She was supposed to be there in her mother’s lap either at home or hospital, but the ill-fated one-day old baby girl was found in a city dustbin on Saturday.Police rescued the baby from the dustbin at Shah…
Dhaka – Naval police arrested eight fishermen and seized 45,000 meters of current net along with five kg Jatka (hilsa fry) and three boats in a drive on the Meghna River in Sadar upazila in Chandpur on Friday.UNB agency
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled Indian medicines worth Tk 24 lakh from Amrakhali at Benapole here in Jessore on Friday.
Dhaka – Ten people were injured in an attack on a ‘Gaye Holud’ ceremony of a girl at Chingari village in Chitalmari upazila in Bagerhat on Thursday.UNB agency
Dhaka– A court here on Thursday convicted three people and sentenced them to life term rigorous imprisonment for killing a teenage boy in Sadar upazila in Sherpur in 2011.The lifers are—Nur Hossain, 16, son of Abbas Ali of Gilagaccha village…