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Women urged to fight against masculinity, money

Speakers, including a lawmaker and entrepreneurs, on Saturday said that women had to fight against masculinity and money to prove their...

Afghan women struggle under male guardian rules

Since the Taliban returned to power, Afghan women have been barred from going on long trips, travelling by plane or entering government buildings...

Bangladesh women suffer clean sweep

Bangladesh women’s national team produced their best batting performance of the five-match Twenty20 International series against India in the fifth and final game in Sylhet but it was not enough to avoid a clean sweep as they suffered a 21-run defeat on Thursday...

Concern expressed over girls harassment by youth gang, relatives

The Bangladesh Mahila Parishad on Wednesday expressed concerns over as incidents of violence against girls and women were rising in the streets, indoors and outdoors by the youth gang members and relatives as well...

Gaza aid worker reveals dire conditions for women

Gazans are feeling the toll of seven months of war, with women bearing the brunt as hospitals face overcrowding and shortages, says a doctor who just left the southern city of Rafah...

HC bans PP from courts for defaming magistrate

The High Court on Tuesday banned a government law officer from appearing in courts for 20 days for making contemptuous remarks on social media against a judicial officer following an altercation in courtroom...

Bangladesh women suffer another trashing

Bangladesh women’s national team went 4-0 behind in their five-match Twenty20 International series suffering another thumping defeat by...

Same prize money for men’s and women’s T20 WC winners

ICC Chief Executive Geoff Allardice reassured on Sunday that the prize money for the winning team in the forthcoming ICC T20 Women’s World Cup will be the same as the...

Bangladesh drawn with South Africa, West Indies, England in Women’s WC

Hosts Bangladesh were drawn in Group B alongside former champions South Africa as well as West Indies and England and a qualifier as the groupings and fixtures of the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup were revealed in Dhaka on Sunday.

193 women, girls face violence in April: report

At least 105 women and 88 girls were victims of violence across the country in April, according to a report, released by the Bangladesh Mahila Parishad on...

Bangladesh women concede T20 series to India

Bangladesh women’s national team conceded their five-match Twenty20 International series to India following a seven-wicket defeat – their third on the trot – in Sylhet on Thursday.

Bangladesh women lose to India in D/L method 

Bangladesh women’s national team conceded a second successive defeat to go 2-0 down in their five-match Twenty20 International series against India in...

Protesters condemn dismissal of case

The Hill Women’s Federation and Parbatya Chattogram Nari Sangha held a mass rally in Rangamati on Monday, protesting at the dismissal of the disappearance case of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based rights activist Kalpana Chakma by a Rangamati court on April 23...

Bangladesh women look to bounce back in 2nd T20I

Bangladesh women’s national cricket team will look to bounce back from their defeat in the first Twenty20 International of the five-match series against India in Sylhet in the...

Pope meets women prisoners in Venice

Pope Francis on Sunday visited a prison for women in Venice ahead of a mass in the watery city representing the 87-year-old pontiff’s first trip...

Joty fifty in vain as Bangladesh women lose to India

Skipper Nigar Sultana Joty’s fifty went in vain after her fellow teammates failed to support her as Bangladesh women’s national team suffered a 44-run defeat in the first of their five-match Twenty20 International series against India at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.

Bangladesh women seek redemption against India

Bangladesh women’s cricket team captain Nigar Sultana Joty vowed to make a good start when they take on their Indian counterparts in the...

Australians protest violence against women

Hundreds of people protested in Australian cities on Saturday, demanding more be done to stop violence against women.

UN denounces ‘more serious’ Iran crackdown on women without veils

The United Nations said on Friday that it was concerned by reports of new efforts to track and punish Iranian women, some as young as 15, who refuse to...

Women’s Football League begins today

ARB College Sporting Club will take on Bangladesh Army SC on the opening day of the nine-team Women’s Football League at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Sepahi...

Kalpana abduction case dismissal makes travesty of justice

THE dismissal of the case of abduction of Hill Women’s Federation leader Kalpana Chakma 28 years after the event is a travesty of justice. A Rangamati judicial magistrate’s court on April 23 accepted the final report which..

ICC observers head to Sylhet ahead of women’s T20 WC

‘Juju: Julekhar Juachakki’ depicts oppression of women

Theatre troupe Porisor Art Centre premiered its third theatre production titled ‘Juju: Julekhar Juachakki’ depicting the oppression of women in the patriarchal society at the TSC of Dhaka University on Sunday...

Month-long women’s SME expo begins in Ctg today

Month-long 14th International Women’s SME Expo-2024 will begin at the port city’s Railway Pologround today...

Bangladesh call up 15yo Pinky for India T20s

Bangladesh women’s national team have called up 15-year-old right-arm pacer Habiba Islam Pinky for their five-match Twenty20 Internationals series against...

Sexual harassment cases must be resolved early

SURVIVORS of sexual harassment on the University of Dhaka campus during Pahela Boishakh celebrations in 2016 still await justice as the case remains stuck in legal bureaucracy. On January 31, a Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Tribunal had to...

Foreign student killed in Ctg road accident

A foreign student was killed and two others were injured in a road accident on the Patenga outer link road in Chattogram on early Tuesday....

Sexual assault survivors see no end in 9 yrs’ wait for justice

The survivors of sexual assault during the Pahela Baishaikh celebration on the Dhaka University Campus nine years ago still wait for justice as the case against a lone accused over the sexual assault remains pending with...

Few opportunities, many barriers for women in Bangladesh: Rubana Huq

Amidst strides and burgeoning prospects, women continue to grapple with significant challenges in both the job market and entrepreneurial sphere, said Rubana Huq while talking to ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· Business magazine.

Women among 54 held in drive against KNF

Security forces in a joint operation against the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front and its sympathisers between Sunday night and Monday arrested 54 people, including 18 women in Bandarban...