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California grape farmers abandon fields as local wine struggles

For more than a century, Lodi’s grape growers have supplied the old wineries that make this Californian city famous. But rocketing costs, falling demand and competition from imports mean some are now abandoning their vineyards...

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Madrassah teacher arrested over rape allegations

The police arrested a madrassa teacher at Darul Hikma Hafizia Madrassa in the Mawna Crossing area of Sreepur Municipality on Friday allegedly for raping a 12-year-old boy student...

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Prime suspect arrested, put on remand

The police have arrested the main suspect in the rape of a Bangladesh University of Professionals student, who was attacked while returning home in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on October 14...

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Students of BUP, JU hold demos for justice

Students of Bangladesh University of Professionals, Jahangirnagar University and Bangladesh Maritime University in Gazipur staged demonstrations on Sunday, demanding exemplary punishment of the perpetrators of the gang rape of a BUP student...

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Two dimensions of the word ‘rape’

A SINGLE line on social media — ‘she should be gang-raped’ — rattled the halls of Dhaka University last month. It was not muttered in private, nor scribbled in secret. It was posted publicly about a young woman running for student union elections. The punishment?...

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Blockade suspended, section 144 remains

Doctors found ‘no signs of rape’ following the examination of a Marma schoolgirl, who was allegedly raped in Khagrachari, according to a report of the government medical board...

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Protests at Khagrachari rape, attack continue

Socio-political organisations and citizens on Tuesday continued to protest against the rape of a Marma girl in Khagrachari and subsequent eruption of violence killing at least three national minority people there...

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41 citizens condemn rape of Marma girl, violence in Khagrachari

A group of 41 citizens, including rights activists, journalists, university professors, lawyers, and cultural activists, issued a joint press statement on Tuesday, condemning the rape of a Marma girl in Khagrachari and the subsequent violence that resulted in the deaths of at least three national minority community members.

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Nat’l minorities still in fear

The families of national minorities in Guimara upazila of Khagrachari said that they were passing days in fear after Sunday’s clashes that left three of the community dead and about 100 shops and houses, mostly belonging to them, burnt...

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Protests against Khagrachari violence spread

Different socio-political organisations on Monday continued to protest against the rape of a Marma girl in Khagrachari and violence that killed at least three national minority people there.

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Dozens hurt in clashes during road blockade in Khagrachari

Dozens of people were injured in clashes between national minorities and Bengali people at places in Khagrachari on Saturday when the former had been enforcing a dawn-to-dusk road blockade in the hill district protesting against the rape of a...

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CU women students issue open letter to CA over rape threats

A Chittagong University women students’ platform on Wednesday issued an open letter to the chief adviser, protesting at ‘moral policing, rape threats, cyber bullying and administrative negligence’ amid the continued unrest at Chittagong University...