A court in Bogura has sentenced a fifty-one-year-old man to death for raping his teenage daughter, delivering a stern verdict in a case that highlights severe domestic abuse. The judgment also includes a financial penalty of two hundred thousand taka. Judge Maruf Hossain of the Bogura Child Repression Suppression Tribunal and District and Sessions Judge […]

A comprehensive new study has revealed that sixty-five per cent of children hospitalised with measles suffer from moderate to severe malnutrition. Conducted jointly by the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), the research highlights a compounding public health crisis among young patients. The findings were unveiled […]

The Forest Department has filed two separate legal cases against sixty-two individuals, including prominent political activists and local leaders, for the illegal felling, theft, and commercial trade of timber from protected forest zones. The targeted areas include the Satchari National Park and the Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary. The initial case focuses on Satchari National Park, where […]

Former minister and Awami League leader Dipu Moni was released on a 12-hour parole on Thursday to attend the funeral prayer of her husband, Supreme Court lawyer Toufiq Nawaz. She was brought from Munshiganj Jail to Dhaka under tight police security, with arrangements made to allow her to spend a limited period with family before […]