The founder of hot yoga has been ordered to pay more than $6m (£4.18m) to a lawyer who says he sexually harassed her and sacked her for investigating allegations against him.

Rapid Action Battalion members arrest a staff nurse of United Hospital in Dhaka, suspected of sexually harassing a female patient, from the capital's airport area.

High Court directs police to arrest Saiful Islam, a staff nurse of United Hospital in Dhaka, and produce him before it on December 7 allegedly for sexually harassing a female patient.

A study by The Daily Star has discovered that 82 percent of the rape victims are under the age of 20. Fifty two percent of girls or women are raped by an individual male,37 percent are gang-raped and 11 percent faced rape attempts.

We all say and know that sexual harassment has, unfortunately, become a part of our daily lives. Everyday, women out on the streets of Dhaka face harassment in some form or the other.

Jahangirnagar University authority sacks one of its teachers over charges of sexually assaulting a female student.

Members of Sri Lanka's women's cricket team were forced to perform sexual favours to keep their places in the team, the sports ministry has said.

On May 4, 2015, a student from the first grade of the Mohammadpur Preparatory School was sexually assaulted by a school employee.

Mohammadpur Preparatory Higher Secondary School decides to sack cleaner Gopal for trying to sexually harass a Class-1 student and to remove school rector Zeenatun Nesa for her indecent behaviour with guardians over the issue.

Mohammadpur Preparatory School closed till May 25 and its vice principal discharged in face of protests over sexual harassment of a minor student.

In a society where violence against women in private and public spaces goes unpunished, is it any wonder that sexual harassment in the cyber domain continues to be firewalled?

In the last few weeks, there seemed to form a large divide between people, both offline and online.

High Court asks government to explain why it should not direct to form a permanent task force to address the incident of violation of human rights by law enforcers.

We deplore in the strongest possible terms the police brutality on the activists, some of them women, who were demanding the arrest and trial of criminals who, as an orgainsed gang, sexually harassed a number of women during the Bengali New Year.

Writ petition moved with the High Court challenging legality of police brutality on women activists protesting the April 14 sexual assault.

When cops swooped on the protesters, it only reflected the government’s and the administration’s indifferent attitude towards the Pahela Baishakh sexual assault. We were shocked because we as civilized human beings expected rational reaction from the authorities. We should not have.

Sexual harassment, thankfully enough, has now become a topic of discussion amongst peers.

A 14-year-old Indian girl dies and her mother is seriously injured after miscreants throw them off a bus after trying to molest them.

"This is not a woman-friendly city, dear mayoral aspirants. That is perhaps the most glaring parameter of failure of our consecutive governments."

The High Court is stimulated for an order on the government to arrest assaulters on women at Dhaka University within 24 hours.