Bangladesh

Long march against rape heads towards Noakhali from Dhaka

Around 400 demonstrators have started their long-march programme from Dhaka to Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila protesting the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women across the country in

5 to die in Tangail gang-rape case

A Tangail court on Thursday sentenced five people to death for gang-raping a female student of a madrasa in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail. Judge Khaleda Yasmin of Women and Children

A couple and their two children were hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Khalsi village in Helatala union under Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Shahinur Rahman, 40, his wife Sabina Khatun, 35, and their son Siam Hossain, 10, and daughter Taslima, 8, all of them hailing from the area. Raihanul Islam, Shahinur’s younger brother, who was sleeping in a nearby house, said he heard groaning from his brother’s house in the morning. When he went there, he found the door closed from the outside, he said, adding that he saw the shocking incident when he entered the house. Mafijul, sub-inspector (SI) of Kalaroa Police Station, said that the reason behind the incident could not be known immediately but the matter is being investigated. The SI also said motive behind the murders can be ascertained after investigation.

Body of Rayhan, who died after allegedly being tortured inside Bandarbazar Police Outpost in Sylhet on Sunday, was exhumed on Thursday morning for fresh autopsy. The body was dug out