The World Bank will provide $ 359 million loan for implementing the Health Sector Development Programme (HSDP).

Two women lost their lives in separate incidents at Kamalapur and Gandaria railway stations in the city in the last two days.

Australia’s Sam Stosur won her first Grand Slam title with a stunning victory over favourite Serena Williams in a controversial US Open final.

A schoolgirl was rescued from Natore municipality area early yesterday after 10 days of abduction.

A housewife was severely injured in acid attack at village Baliadah in Tala upazila Friday night. Victim Saleha Begum, 50, is wife of late Arshad Ali.

A madrasa teacher was arrested for allegedly attempting to violate a minor girl at his mess at Sabujbagh in the city on Saturday.

A schoolgirl and a university student allegedly committed suicide in different incidents at Uttara and Mirpur in the city on Saturday.

Women labourers in the district are facing wage discrimination despite daylong hard toil, even sometimes the wage is only one-third than their male fellow workers.

It is a fact that in spite of the commitments made by the government, NGOs and social workers for gender equality and ensuring the rights of the weaker section of the society, women continue to be discriminated against, and in various ways too.

The members of Rapid Action Battalion-11 on Monday night rescued a five-year-old female infant from Chandpur district five days after she was kidnapped from Savar.

The government will establish a diabetic hospital for women at Uttara Model Town in the city to cope with increasing number of diabetic patients in the country.

World number one Caroline Wozniacki came back from a set and 4-1 down to defeat Svetlana Kuznetsova and reach the US Open last eight on Monday just as her lofty status again looked too heavy a burden to bear.

Police arrested the owner of a private clinic in Chatmohor upazila of Pabna Wednesday morning in connection with the death of a pregnant woman.

Hundreds of ethnic people from different upazilas agitated in the town yesterday demanding punishment to rapists and killers of santal woman Moriam Murmu about two months ago.

Pro-Awami League lawyers on Wednesday warned of legal action if BNP Chief Khaleda Zia does not withdraw her statement about former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in 15 days.