This week, a report issued by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad outlines the brutal reality: almost 300 women reported different types of abuse just in the last six months.

An international footballer who plays in the Premier League has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of rape.

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The autopsy found no sign of rape on the body of Stamford University student Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa, a doctor of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital says.

A young woman was allegedly set on fire by her neighbour after she resisted his attempt to rape her in Muzzaffarpur town in Bihar, an Indian police officer says.

An eight-year-old girl has been raped by a local shop employee in Baishari area under Naikhangchhari upazilla of Bandarban, family members claim.

Police claim to have arrested a youth for allegedly raping a female worker and capturing the rape scene through his mobile phone in Araihahazar upazila of Narayanganj.

A minor girl is raped by a man at Ektarpur village in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah, police say.

The officer-in-charge and a sub-inspector of Pabna Sadar Police Station were withdrawn and suspended over allegations of arranging a marriage between a gang-raped woman and one of the rapists.

Three accused in connection with two separate rape cases have been arrested in Barishal, police have said.

The 18-year-old girl, who was found dead at a toilet of an abandoned carriage at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday morning, was raped before murder, doctor says.

A nine-year-old physically challenged girl has been raped by a youth of the same village in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj.

An eighth-grader has been raped allegedly by a youth in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.

Grief and anger have gripped the family of Shahinoor Akter Tania, a nurse of Ibne Sina Hospital’s Kallyanpur branch who was raped and murdered allegedly on a bus on Monday night.

A young nurse died in mysterious circumstances in a passenger bus on her way home in Kishoreganj’s Katiadi upazila on Monday night.

Two cases were filed with Bandarban and Narayanganj police yesterday over rape of two schoolgirls in the districts.

A student of Chittagong University has been arrested on charge of raping a female student of the same university.

Two minor girls have allegedly been raped in Habiganj and Moulvibazar since Monday evening.

Two girls including a readymade garment worker are allegedly raped in Savar, on the outskirt of Dhaka, and Chuadanga

A five-year-old girl is raped allegedly by a local youth in Jashore, while at least four persons including madrasa and school teachers are arrested allegedly for raping and sexually harassing girls in different districts.