Marma Students Council formed a human chain in Khagrachhari town yesterday demanding exemplary punishment to those who killed Naubai Marma after rape in Mahamuni area under Manikchhari upazila of Khagrachhari district on the night of March 25.

A woman committed suicide after killing her baby girl in the capital’s Nadda yesterday, failing to withstand the humiliation by people her husband had “cheated.”

Criminals kidnapped a 12-year-old girl and killed her after rape at Dharmondal village in Nasirnagar upazila early yesterday.

Two women, tortured on June 26 following an arbitration at Kashiganj village in Modhupur union of Baderganj upazila, mysteriously went missing after the upazila office of Women and Children Affairs Department lodged a case against local influential people.

A female student of Rajshahi University committed suicide jumping into a pond after taking sedatives Friday night.

Women and children trafficking is a perennial problem, not only in Bangladesh but also in the world. Poverty, over-population, gender-based discrimination, lack of consciousness are some of the reasons behind women and children trafficking in Bangladesh.

Police have failed to rescue a 13-year old school student even 21 days after her abduction.

Neighbours cut the hair of a widow after torturing her physically over cutting bamboo at Chilmari in Kurigram on Thursday.

Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country for women, with Congo a close second due to horrific levels of rape, a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll said on Wednesday.

The police recovered the decomposed body of a housewife from her house at village Laharkandi in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila on Monday.

A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband at Munijitpur in the town for dowry early Monday.

Rangamati Hill Women’s Federation (HWF) president and 10 other members have allegedly been abducted in the town.

A gang of robbers injured a journalist and his wife and looted a licensed arm, gold ornaments and cash from his house at village Genda under Savar municipality early on Sunday.

A female BRAC employee was killed in a road accident in Rupdia bazaar area here on Jessore-Khulna highway Sunday morning.

Two women allegedly committed suicide by hanging in seperate incidents yesterday in the city’s Hazaribagh and Adabor.