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118 children 'raped', 17 'killed' in five months: ASK reveals shocking toll amid Pallabi outrage

Dhaka, May 21 -- Amid mounting public outrage over the brutal "rape and murder" of 7-year-old Ramisa Akter in the capital's Pallabi, rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) has released a grim a... Read More


No metro rail in Dhaka on Eid day as DMTCL announces special holiday schedule

Dhaka, May 21 -- The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) has announced that metro rail services will remain suspended on Eid day, alongside a special operating schedule for the holidays. On Th... Read More


Stakeholders urge BERC to reform power sector instead of raising tariffs

Dhaka, May 21 -- Stakeholders at a public hearing have opposed proposals to increase retail electricity prices, urging the state regulator to focus on trimming institutional costs and rooting out corr... Read More


Anger spills into the streets over Mirpur child's 'rape, murder' as citizens blame 'social degradation'

Dhaka, May 21 -- Outrage and protests have kept pouring in following the brutal "rape and murder" of a 7-year-old child in Dhaka's Pallabi, with citizens coming down to the streets to form human chain... Read More


Jamaat decries dissolution of Bangladesh Supreme Court Secretariat

Dhaka, May 21 -- The abolition of the Supreme Court Secretariat amounts to a "slap" to the judiciary, Jamaat-e-Islami has said while criticising the government's decision. Lawyer Shishir Manir, a mem... Read More


SB Headquarters 'unaware' of field agents seeking journalists' political identities, personal data

Dhaka, May 21 -- The headquarters of the police's Special Branch (SB) has been left "completely in the dark" about field-level operatives knocking on journalists' doors or phoning them to demand exten... Read More


HC asks why failure to appoint ombudsman should not be declared unconstitutional

Dhaka, May 21 -- The High Court has questioned why successive governments have failed for decades to appoint an ombudsman to tackle administrative abuse and public harassment, asking why the prolonged... Read More


Jatiya Party leader Ruhul Amin hospitalised with heart complications

Dhaka, May 21 -- ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader, secretary general of a faction of the Jatiya Party, has been admitted to a Dhaka hospital with cardiac complications. The former minister is being treated at... Read More


Dhaka court grants police 5 days to quiz madrasa student over boy's 'rape', 'suicide'

Dhaka, May 21 -- A Dhaka court has granted police five days to interrogate 20-year-old madrasa student over the "rape" and abetment to "suicide" of a 10-year-old boy in Dhaka's Rampura. Dhaka Metropo... Read More


Measles: 7 more children die, 208 new confirmed cases

Dhaka, May 21 -- Seven more children have died of measles and measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh in a 24-hour count. Of them, three have died of confirmed measles cases and four have died with relat... Read More