A Cumilla court on Thursday granted a three-day remand for four individuals arrested in a case filed under the Pornography Control Act over the filming and circulating video footage of a rape victim at Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla...
Sylhet District Stone Traders and Workers Unity Council on Wednesday threatened to go for a indefinite transport strike from Saturday if their five-point demand, including opening stone quarries for extracting stones in manual process and withdrawal of the deputy commissioner, were not met by Friday...
INSENSITIVE and irresponsible reporting on sexual harassment and rape increasingly puts survivor鈥檚 privacy, safety and mental well-being at serious risk. While established media outlets generally try to follow basic ethical standards in reporting sexual violence such as respecting victims and safeguarding the identity, online platforms, social media-based pages and informal...
The woman, who was raped, tortured and videoed in a village under Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla, has left her father鈥檚 home due to 鈥榠nterview pressure鈥� and crowds flocking around her house every day...
Nine years have passed since the harrowing extremist attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka鈥檚 Gulshan on July 1, 2016, that left 22 people鈥�17 of them foreign nationals鈥攄ead, but no appeal has yet been filed, challenging the High Court verdict that commuted the death sentences of seven convicts to imprisonment until death...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal聽1 on Sunday urged the tribunal to frame charges of crimes against humanity against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven other police personnel...
The Supreme Court has set Sunday for delivering order on the review petition filed against the much-discussed gazette of the service disciplinary rules for lower court judges...
Different rights bodies and the families of the victims of enforced disappearance on Wednesday demanded justice for the victims of disappearance and torture as the country march with the world in observing International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday set July 1 for hearing charges against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her associates in a crimes against humanity case over the 2024 July鈥揂ugust mass uprising.
Academics, diplomats and journalists on Thursday at a seminar in Dhaka opined that the interim government should not get involved in any regional conflict over resolving the Rohingya issue...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday showed retired Rear Admiral Muhammad Sohail, former Rapid Action Battalion media wing director, arrested in a case over crimes against humanity...
A powerful American bunker-busting bomb is the only weapon capable of destroying Iran鈥檚 deeply buried nuclear facilities, making it president Donald Trump鈥檚 weapon of choice if he chooses to militarily back Israel...
The concerns among businesses in Bangladesh are growing due to the conflict between Iran and Israel, which broke out on Friday, after a surprise attack by Israel on Iran...
Oil prices rose and stock markets diverged Wednesday as investors tracked the Israel-Iran conflict and a looming US interest rate decision...
With no sign of de-escalation of the tensions in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz under Iran鈥檚 consideration, Bangladesh appears to face a wave of fresh economic crises due to a surge in energy prices and a potential supply shortage...
Stocks rose and oil prices pulled back on Monday as fears of a wider Middle East conflict eased even as Israel and Iran pounded each other with missiles for a fourth day...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday granted more time to the Investigation Agency to complete its probe into the killing of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur student Abu Sayeed and two other murder cases related to the 2024 mass uprising.
The human rights organisation Odhikar on Tuesday demanded diplomatic negotiations between the Bangladesh government and Indian authorities to investigate whether additional victims of enforced disappearance remained in India as some of previously disappeared individuals were later found there...
Questions swirled over Cristiano Ronaldo's future in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, hours after the superstar indicated he might be leaving Al Nassr in a social media post, just hours following the end of the Saudi Pro League season.
WHEN the government forcefully evicted sex workers from the brothels of Tanbazar, Narayanganj, in 1999, they did so under the guise of 鈥榬ehabilitation鈥�, claiming it was to rescue women from violence and exploitation. But for those of us who stood witness, it felt like a cruel betrayal masked as benevolence. I was an undergraduate student of anthropology then 鈥� young..
Russia fired its biggest ever drone barrage on Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said Monday, just hours after Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin 鈥楥RAZY鈥� and warned Moscow risked new sanctions if it kept up its deadly bombardment.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday ordered the publication of a notice in two national newspapers summoning deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to appear before it within seven days to face contempt of court proceedings.
Failing to satisfy citizens鈥� expectations of democracy leads to serious societal problems, including the intensification of conflict. This is a finding from research (a collaborative research with SOAS, University of London, exploring parliament and public engagement) that my colleagues and I conducted in Bangladesh from 2014 to 2017. In Bangladesh, the 2018 quota...
Crude prices rallied Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears...
Morshed Ononto Islam, one of the 20 death-row convicts in the case of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad murder, on Monday appealed seeking his acquittal of the murder charges...
Pope Leo XIV received US vice president JD Vance and US secretary of state Marco Rubio at the Vatican Monday, a day after the new US pontiff鈥檚 inauguration mass.
Pakistan鈥檚 foreign minister will make a three-day official visit to China, his office said on Sunday, a little over a week after Islamabad reached a ceasefire with India to end their most serious conflict in decades...
Bangladeshi exporters and an economist expressed worries over the imposition of import restrictions by India on a number of Bangladeshi goods, including readymade garments, fruit and fruit-flavoured carbonated drinks, processed food items, cotton and cotton yarn waste, some plastic and PVC finished goods, and wooden furniture, through land ports...
Chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Muhammad Tajul Islam on Tuesday said mass murder had taken place, not genocide, during the July uprising, calling for not spreading confusions over this.
