A Comilla court yesterday ordered the exhumation of the body of college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu for a fresh autopsy.

With no visible progress in the investigation, protests continued across the country yesterday, demanding justice for Sohagi Jahan Tonu who was killed inside Comilla Cantonment area on March 20.

Detective Branch (DB) of police investigates Comilla Victoria college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder case.

Supreme Court upholds death for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali in a war crimes case. Five-member bench of Appellate Division acquits the war criminal of a death penalty and two other jail terms.

Locals and family members of a deceased teen house help yesterday laid siege to Kafrul Police Station and NAM Garden Officers' Quarters at Mirpur demanding arrest of the people who “raped and killed the girl”.

Some 24 people were killed, 25 raped and 1,562 families were affected in 262 incidents of minority persecution in the country last year, said a report of Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad.

At least 262 incidents of repression on minorities take place across the country last year affecting 1,562 families, according to a report of Bangladesh Hindu- Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad.

Miscreants kill a teenage girl apparently after raping her at Khetachira village in Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur.

Twenty-seven Chinese officials have been penalised for the wrongful execution of a teenager, state news agency Xinhua says.

A man is held for allegedly trying to rape an indigenous woman at her residence in Dewan Bari area of Dhaka.

A housewife of a Hindu family has allegedly been raped twice by the same man in the span of just three days in Baniarchang upazila of Habiganj.

An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men has said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delhi.

The head of Cologne's police force is leaving his post "to restore public trust in the police" following scores of attacks on women in the city on New Year's Eve, German media report.

A number of 752 women were raped and 94 others became victims of rape attempts in 2015, according to a report of Ain o Salish Kendra.

Govt is assessing Bangladesh-Pakistan ties, considering measures need to be taken over Pak reaction after execution of 2 war criminals, says foreign minister.

The court’s verdict on Parimal Chandra Joydhar in the rape case filed over violating a Viqarunnisa Noon School student is set to be delivered on November 25.

Amnesty International has caused fury and rage in the minds of Bangladeshis with its latest statement in support of two war criminals awaiting death – SQ Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.

Rape and repression on women in Bangladesh have increased in the last year compared to the previous year, report says.

An Indian court is found an Uber taxi driver guilty of raping a female passenger last year in Delhi.