Bring changes to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) convention on preventing and combating trafficking in women and children for prostitution to expand the convention’s scope and definition.

Speakers yesterday recommended rectifying the definition of “trafficking” in the Saarc Convention on Preventing and Combating Human Trafficking to make it more effective in preventing the social menace in the region.

Over 300 students of Dhaka Commerce College went on a rampage at Dr Azmal Hospital in the city’s Mirpur yesterday after a teacher of the college died allegedly due to negligence of a doctor and the hospital authorities.

Mystery shrouds the death of a housewife of the city’s Mirpur at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.

A young housewife allegedly hanged herself after she was harassed in village arbitration at Boteshwar village under Belabo upazila of the district Thursday night.

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

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

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.

A young woman who went missing after Eid-ul-Azha last year was rescued by the police from a brothel at Daulatdia upazila in Rajbari on Thursday.

Victim of brutal torture allegedly by dowry-hungry husband and in-laws, a woman at Bangalkandi village in Gafargaon upazila under Mymensingh district is crying for justice.

An elderly woman was beaten to death at Fariapara of Mithapukur upazila on Thursday night.

The body of a stabbed woman was found in front of a children’s park in the city’s Mirpur section 1 early yesterday.

A schoolgirl, who was abducted by criminals from Jessore on August 14, was rescued by police from a house at Deara village in Kalaroa upazila early yesterday.

Police arrested a person on Tuesday evening for allegedly violating a schoolgirl in Khagrachhari district town, almost two months after the incident.

A mother and her two children died as she jumped under a train with her four kids in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj yesterday morning. The two others sustained severe injuries.