Case filed over attack, molestation on ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· female journalist
A case was filed on early Thursday against three people over an attack and molestation on ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· journalist Rafia Tamanna...
A case was filed on early Thursday against three people over an attack and molestation on ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· journalist Rafia Tamanna...
¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· journalist Rafia Tamanna and her brother were attacked after they protested against some youths who were stalking her near their house in the capital’s Rampura area on Wednesday...
A group led by a local leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party reportedly attacked the police in Kachua upazila’s Gajalia Bridge area Tuesday night in an attempt to snatch an arrested crime suspect, leaving four police officers injured....
Azizur Rahman Bachchu Mollah, the father of information adviser Mahfuj Alam, has been injured in an attack allegedly carried out by Jubo Dal men in Lakshmipur....
Several hundred villagers in Karnaphuli upazila of Chattogram blocked roads, protesting the authorities’ ‘failure’ to curb recurring elephant attacks, on Thursday...
Different political parties and student organisations on Saturday continued holding rallies in Dhaka protesting against Israeli attacks on Palestine, especially on Gaza...
Local people blocked the PAB road near Korean Export Processing Zone at Karnaphuli in Chattogram on Saturday, protesting at the death of a toddler in elephant attack...
Attacks on journalists increased sharply beginning in February. International rights groups on March 21 urged the government to protect the freedom of expression and opinion.
Protests against Israeli attacks on Palestine continued across the country on Friday as political parties and student groups demanded action against the violence.
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed at least 50 people in Khartoum during the past week, rescuers said Wednesday, as fighting with the army for control of the capital intensifies...
Suspended superintendent of police SM Fazlul Haque assaulted several video journalists on the premises of a Natore court on Tuesday...
Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam on Sunday said that the interim government had decided that from now on it would get tough with all kinds of mob attacks in the country.
Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender discrimination remains deeply embedded in economies and societies...
A case was filed with the Vatara police station on Wednesday following a mob attack on two Iranians in the Basundhara residential area in the capital Dhaka in the previous day...
THE March 3 protest at Lalmatia that Bangladesh Against Rape and Harassment held was not just a response to a single event but the culmination of growing disappointment with the government’s failure to protect women from escalating violence. The demonstrators, predominantly woman activists and concerned citizens, burnt an effigy of the home affairs adviser...
The advisory council on Tuesday discussed the recent incidents of mob attacks and harassments, especially a mob attack at Mohammadpur in the capital Dhaka.
Two men were beaten to death and four others were injured in a mob attack over alleged robbery suspicion at Satkania in Chattogram Monday evening.
Two Iranian nationals came under a mob attack in the Basundhara residential area in the capital Dhaka Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of being members of a dope gang.
Two women were attacked by a mob allegedly over smoking in public place near NHA tower at Lalmatia in the capital on Saturday.
The principal of Cumilla Victoria Government College, Professor Mohammad Abul Bashar Bhuiyan, along with several other teachers, was injured during an incident between two groups over the firing of an imam at the mosque of college on Friday...
A robbery gang blocked the Santhia-Bera road with logs and looted at least eight vehicles near the Chechania Bridge under Santhia upazila in Pabna early Saturday and three suspected robbers were beaten to death after a robbery attempt...
A farmer was killed in an attack by a wild elephant at Kaitakpara village under Rajasthali upazila of Rangamati district Thursday morning...
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion on Thursday arrested two youths allegedly engaged in drug dealing for attack on police in Karwan Bazar area of Dhaka city on Thursday...
The interim committee of the Bangladesh Economic Association expressed concern over a wave of attacks on its office...
A group of students from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday offered a memorandum to chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus demanding the arrest of attackers on KUET students on its campus on February 18 and the resignation of the university’s vice-chancellor...
A SERIES of attacks on and harassment of women and the government’s failure to attend to the issues are a worrying sign. A significant number of women, especially players, athletes, celebrities and sex workers, have been attacked by people and groups with Islamist bent, weaving a pattern of the right wing rearing its head in the absence of deterrent government action...
IN 2009-2010, I was on research leave from the University of Dhaka to do a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I was going to work on a project titled ‘From Rokeya to Taslima: Trends in Muslim Feminism in South Asia’ — a topic related to my doctoral research completed at the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2007 under the supervision of...
The entire gang involved in the machete attack on a couple in Uttara has been arrested, according to the deputy police commissioner of the Uttara Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Rownak Jahan...
Bangladesh Bank officials on Thursday strongly condemned attack on Muhammad Badiuzzaman Didar, administrator of Nagad...
Police filed a case against 2,500 unidentified people on charges of arson, vandalism, looting of government weapons and ammunition and attacking policemen of Bishwanathpur police station in Sylhet on August 5 after the fall of the fascist amid the student-led mass uprising...