A total of 1,035 women and girl children have been victims of abuse across the country in the first five months (January-May) of this year. Among them, 250 were raped, 65 were gang-raped, 18 were murdered after rape, and 53 faced attempted rape.
Metro rail services in the capital were temporarily suspended on Saturday (June 13) after a cat entered the main track area, prompting authorities to halt operations as a precautionary safety measure.
The Directorate General of Health Services has issued special instructions to six hospitals in the capital to ensure proper treatment of patients referred from Ad-Din Women's Medical College Hospital after the license of the hospital was cancelled following the unnatural deaths of six newborns.
Biman's Dhaka-Sylhet-London flight was delayed by nearly four hours due to a technical glitch. The flight was scheduled to take off at 10am but left Dhaka at 1:50 pm.
Facebook and its messaging service Messenger are gradually returning to normal operation following a service disruption that affected users in Bangladesh and several other parts of the world on Friday evening, June 12 .
An estimated 5,000 Bangladeshi nationals are living in a state of siege in their homes in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, following days of violent anti-immigrant protests sparked by a stabbing incident .