A woman sustained serious burn injuries as criminals threw acid on her at Alinagar in the town yesterday morning.

A 13-year-old indigenous girl was killed reportedly after being violated by a stalker at Zianagar in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari on Thursday night.

A court here on Monday sentenced a schoolteacher to 46 years rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a schoolgirl.

An elderly man was jailed for rape on Thursday while two youths were punished for stalking yesterday and the day before.

A court here yesterday sentenced 11 people to life-term imprisonment for violating schoolgirl Purnima Rani Shil in 2001.

Police yesterday arrested a madrasa student on charge of biting the face of a college girl and attempting to violate her.

THE media nowadays is carrying news of Eve teasing frequently. Typically, Eve teasing has come to mean suggestions made to young women by male oppressors to respond to amorous advances failing in which they are physically attacked causing serious injuries or even deaths. School girls and women going to work are followed by Eve teasers.

A teenage girl was allegedly raped and pushed from hilltop by a gang of youths in the port city late night Saturday. The victim, a 15-year-old garment worker, was under treatment in Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday.

A young woman in Rupganj has been raped, for allegedly refusing marriage proposal from a local youth. The victim has been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

New Year celebrations were hardly enough to keep stalkers away from harassing or in some cases violating them. In one instance, the police arrested three alleged rapists, in another a mobile court fined Tk 10,000 for stalking and a woman and another woman died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital 10 days after she attempted suicide.

Nearly two decades after a peasant woman’s suicide first raised national awareness about the danger of religious rulings, and one month after a high court outlawed deadly edicts, killings of women in the name of religion continue in Bangladesh, human rights groups say.

Frequent sexual harassment and fear of social ostracism has led to a dramatic rise in the number of suicides among women and young girls. Also, women are being driven out of places of education because of escalating instances of eve-teasing and harassment. Sexual harassment against girls and women in Bangladesh is turning deadly: 28 women [...]

Eve teasing has recently been growing like an epidemic throughout the country. The term is presently very common to the younger generations. It means “to excite girls with objectionable questions, annoyance, irritating, ambling limbs and by creating blockade on the way without showing any courtesy.” Eve-teasing actually means nonsensical gestures use of slang language in [...]

Dhaka, Apr 19 RAB helped organise a local arbitration as a way of entrapping four men, accused of raping a teenager.

Sherpur, April 19  The Sherpur police have brought out a procession against women’s harassment on Monday.