Dr Ehsan Hoque, founder and executive director of Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI), was recently honoured with a Humanitarian Award by Rajshahi Government College in recognition of his outstanding contributions to humanity through his extraordinary dedication, leadership, and commitment to underprivileged people throughout the world.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said an ordinance will be promulgated tomorrow on the amendment of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, incorporating the provision of death penalty for rape so that the law can be applied quickly.

Bangladesh will raise the Rohingya issue during a visit by US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun and seek stronger global support, especially from the United States, for the quick repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

We have come across news in media about misappropriation of relief rice, corrugated iron sheets, other relief items and government financial support for the poor. There are many tricks to embezzle cash support and one of them is using ghost beneficiaries when they are distributed manually. As a result, these incidents are less visible. There has not been much media coverage about the misappropriation in the distribution of cash support.

The High Court today directed the authorities of electricity suppliers to cancel the inflated electricity bills from February to June and to prepare customised bills based on actual metre-reading for each consumer.

A case was filed today in connection with the death -- allegedly in police custody -- of Rayhan Ahmed at Bandarbazar Police Outpost in Sylhet city early Sunday.

Expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman have been sentenced to 27 years’ rigorous imprisonment in an arms case.

The cabinet today approved the draft of the Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, incorporating the provision of capital punishment for rape amid countrywide protests against violence against women.

The depression over the East central and adjoining West central Bay of Bengal has moved west-northwestwards and now lies over the same area, and there are chances it may turn into a deep depression.

The Supreme Court today barred Md Eunus Ali Akond from practicing law -- before both its Appellate and High Court divisions -- for three months over contempt of court by posting three derogatory comments about the judiciary on his Facebook.

The Managing Director of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital has got bail in a case filed over using unauthorised Covid-19 test kits and forging Covid-19 test reports at the hospital.

Dubai airport authorities have deported 104 Bangladeshi passengers -- mostly migrant workers -- on October 11 as Flydubai, a government-owned budget airline, carried them to UAE without following the country’s immigration policy.

A Teknaf court has sent a man to jail over a case filed against him for attempting to rape his 16-year-old daughter.

Police recovered the body of a trader from a graveyard near Boiragi Bazar area in Sadar upazila yesterday.

A woman was killed by her husband allegedly over a family feud in Dhunat upazila early yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with a case for gang-raping a NGO worker in Fakirhat upazila on Saturday night.

Scientists at Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI) in Dinajpur have not got any promotion in the last 17 years although they have been playing a significate role to take advance the wheat farming in the country since long.

A contractor abandoned construction of a road that was scheduled to be finished by May this year, under Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj.

A female NGO worker has allegedly been gang-raped at her Maitkumra house at Fakirhat of Bagerhat district.

Two more accused, including the prime accused, in the gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali gave confessional statements before a court today.