A house help has “committed” suicide after being tortured reportedly by the house owner in Dhanmondi area of Dhaka.

In November 2015, a 14-year-old girl in the Central African Republic (CAR) said that two peacekeepers attacked her in November as she was returning home near Bambari airport. Peacekeepers at the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) base were stationed there to guard the airport and allegedly committed numerous such acts of sexual abuse and exploitation.

A ward councilor of Mymensingh’s Phulpur municipality is stabbed to death by unidentified criminals.

Four slit-throat bodies are found at a paddy field in Shibganj upazila of Bogra. Locals saw the bodies on the paddy field at Atmul union in the morning and informed police.

Farah Sharmin, an HSC student at Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, escaped an attempted rape while on a journey with her mother from Abdullahpur to Rampura on a Shuprobh at Paribahan vehicle in the evening. As the bus neared Rampura and passengers thinned out, Sharmin and her mother were left alone with some boys sitting at the back.

An upazila parishad chairman is shot dead in Naniachar upazila of Rangamati.

An alleged drug dealer is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Munshiganj Sadar upazila.

Three transport workers are arrested in connection with sexually harassing a private university student in a running bus in Dhaka on Saturday.

An alleged mugger, a suspect in killing Daffodil University student Khandaker Abu Talha, is killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and police in Wari.

Thailand makes one of its largest crystal methamphetamine busts, seizing 700 million baht ($22.42 million) worth of the drug, police say, as the United Nations warns Southeast Asia is being flooded with illegal drugs from the "Golden Triangle" region.

Law enforcers arrest the main accused in the case filed over the rape and murder of Beauty Akter of Shayestaganj upazila in Habiganj.

Seven employees including two fake doctors of Crescent Hospital, a private hospital in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur, are sentenced to different jail terms on charge of providing wrong treatment.

The two Garo women who were stabbed and gagged to death in Dhaka’s Kalachandpur, were killed for money, lawmen say after arrest of the “murderers”.

A suspect in last year’s Banani manpower businessman murder is caught by locals and handed over to police while he was fleeing away after reportedly killing another man in Dhaka’s Badda area.

Customs officials have held an Indian citizen with two kg gold at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A woman is killed under the wheels of a private car as muggers from the vehicle pulled her vanity bag on Mirpur Road in Dhanmondi 7 of Dhaka.

A rickshaw puller has been “beaten dead” following a feud in Bhashantek area of Dhaka city.

In a victory for labour unions, a global clothing brand has agreed to pay $2.3 million to meet fire and building safety regulations in 150 garment factories across its supply chain in Bangladesh, unions say.

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have arrested five persons including the prime accused and alleged mastermind of the sensational Tongi double murder.

It was sometime in mid-August of 1971. The Pakistan occupation forces continued its atrocities in the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. In the Haor region, encompassing Sunamganj, Habiganj, Kishoreganj and Netrakona, the marauding army was using the Bheramohona River on Sherpur-Ajmiriganj route to supply arms and ammunition to different places.