The Bangladesh Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday approved a legal amendment to elevate the maximum punishment in rape cases to death from life imprisonment

This year's edition of the Bangladesh Premier League will not be held due to COVID-19 pandemic, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan has confirmed

Pornography is one of the key reasons behind a rise in the number of rape incidents in Bangladesh, according to Hasan Mahmud

Dubai airport authorities have deported 104 Bangladeshi passengers -- mostly migrant workers -- on October 11 as Flydubai, a government-owned budget airline, carried them to UAE without following the country's immigration policy

Police have arrested four young men on charges of raping a girl in Dhaka’s Pallabi amid public outrage over escalating number of cases of sexual violence against women across Bangladesh

A protest march against the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women in Bangladesh, will take place on October 16 from Dhaka to Noakhali

Anti-rape protests continued across the country for the sixth consecutive day yesterday as different socio-cultural and rights organisations took to the streets to condemn the growing incidents of rape, sexual harassment and violence against women

Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki on Saturday said Tokyo will continue to support Bangladesh’s development as it directly leads to the overall stability of the Bay of Bengal and Indo-Pacific region

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) will have to be more relevant and effective in order to face contemporary global challenges, including the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said

The World Bank has warned that one in every 10 people in Dhaka might have already been infected with Covid-19, adding that the coronavirus pandemic is not likely to pass anytime soon

The Bangladesh government has planned to introduce capital punishment in rape cases as protests have erupted across the country over the recent incidents of sexual violence against women

The Bangladesh government has issued a new set of guidelines for teachers on the use of social media platforms, the media reported on Friday

Bangladesh should take meaningful action to combat sexual violence against women and to support the survivors, said the Human Rights Watch

The latest estimate of roughly 850,000 Rohingya refugees living currently in Bangladesh is ‘accurate’, not the initial calculation released two years ago that put the figure at nearly 950,000, says Mohammad Shamsu Douza, the government’s additional commissioner of refugee, relief and repatriation

Thailand hopes to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Bangladesh soon, outgoing Thai Ambassador to Bangladesh Arunrung Phothong Humphreys has said