In the 1970s, the idea of ‘violence against women is a violation of human rights’ did not exist. The issue gained importance through the women’s movement in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and Ayesha Khanum made a significant contribution to the movement.

A rapist was served life-term imprisonment in Rangpur yesterday, 11 years after committing the crime.

BNP leaders in the port city are chalking out campaign strategies to take on the Awami League-backed candidate in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls scheduled to be held on January 27.

No one will be allowed to carry out any kind of violence and spoil the atmosphere ahead of the January 27 city corporation election, warned Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Saleh Mohammed Tanvir yesterday.

Before the January 16 municipal polls, he was blamed for inciting violence. Even his own party -- Awami League -- decided not to nominate him.

Local government minister Md Tazul Islam yesterday said he would propose for dissolving the municipal councils if any municipality fails to pay salaries to its employees for 12 months.

Bula Ahmed, a freedom fighter and wife of Science and Technology Minister Architect Yeafesh Osman, passed away yesterday, aged 70.

Kashinath Roy, former professor at DU’s English Department has passed away at a private hospital in the capital yesterday. He was suffering of old age

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze 18 bank accounts and seize documents of 40 scheduled immovable properties of former Pirojpur lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in two graft cases.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks the January 11 High Court order that directed United Hospital authorities to pay Tk 30 lakh as initial payment to each of the families of four victims, who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27 last year, in 15 days.

Roads and Highways Department yesterday started an eviction drive against illegal structures on Sher-e-Bangla Road in Khulna city to upgrade the two-lane road into a four-lane one.

A woman yesterday filed a case stating that her husband’s friends gang-raped her in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area five days ago.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed yesterday expressed his conviction to uproot militancy from the country.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced three people to death for killing Shamsun Nahar and her 17-year-old son Sajjadul Karim Shaon in Dhaka’s Kakrail area in 2017.

A housewife today filed a case saying that she was gang-raped by five of her husband’s friends in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area five days ago.

A tribunal in Sylhet today framed charges against all eight accused of a case filed over the gang-rape of a woman at Murari Chand (MC) College hostel in Sylhet on September 25 last year.

A teenager was killed and two others were injured in a clash between two groups in Dhaka’s Keraniganj area following a brawl over playing badminton last night.

A man was killed after being hit by a pick-up van in Dhaka’s Shahjadpur area this morning.

A three-day art exhibition titled “Bangabandhu: Statesman of the Era” began in Khulna on Friday.

With Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election day coming closer, candidates are leaving no stone unturned to win over voters. Although Awami