An elderly woman was murdered by a gang of unidentified assailants in her three-storey building at Shahjadpur in the city’s Gulshan area last night.

Following a Caesarean operation conducted allegedly by a clinic owner, who is a non-medical person, mother of a newborn baby is fighting for life at Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital.

Body of a teenage schoolgirl was recovered from a drain at Gagon Goli of Datarkhana area in the city yesterday morning.

A man allegedly strangled her wife to death and left the body in his slum house in the city’s Pallabi Tuesday night.

An Iranian man convicted of throwing acid in the face of a female student who was to have been blinded himself yesterday in retribution was pardoned by his victim, the state-run television website said.

An Iranian woman blinded with acid by her suitor for turning down his marriage proposal spared him at the last minute from being blinded too as punishment for his crime, Iranian media reported on Sunday.

Two youths identified as outsiders threw “unknown chemical” to a girl student inside her school compound in Rajshahi city yesterday, inflicting injuries on both of her eyes.

A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband and in-laws for dowry at Charpora Gachha village in Ramgoti upazila Friday morning.

Unidentified criminals attacked and injured a female BNP leader in front of her Dhanmondi residence in the city yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the police to file a criminal case against the persons involved in torturing a housewife during a village arbitration at Sharankhola in Bagerhat.

The headmistress of Udoypur Registered Primary School in Sujanagar upazila under Pabna district yesterday filed a case with Sujanagar police station against the three men on charge of assaulting her on Saturday.

A housewife was electrocuted and three linemen of Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) were injured at Paschim Bahali Para village in Sadar upazila on Friday night.

Shahadat heard the scream and when he looked around he saw somebody pulling his mother out the door of the moving train and in a fraction of a second she was gone.

Police on Wednesday evening arrested two directors and two staff of Bangabandhu Memorial Hospital at Mahiganj in Rangpur town on charge of confining a woman to a hospital room for one and a half months for failure to make full payment of her treatment bill.

The body of a Japanese woman was found hanging in a flat in Sector 11 of Uttara in the city yesterday.