An inmate of Jashore Child Development Centre(CDC) has died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the district, said officials on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Siraj Islam, 16, son of Abdul Jalil of Nilphamari district. Siraj was sent to the Child Development Center on March 15 this year in a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, said Manjurul Hasan, assistant director of CDC. Also read: HC sought report on facilities for inmates in jail He was admitted to Jashore General Hospital on May 28  with fever and breathing problem after contacting his family. Siraj died at the hospital this morning, Manjurul said. Ahmed Tareq Shams, a physician of the hospital, said Siraj was suffering from fever, breathing problem, anemia and jaundice. Rubel Hawlader, social service officer at the hospital, said the body was handed over to his parents.

A man was arrested in Rajbari’s Goalanda on Wednesday night for allegedly trying to rape his step-daughter, an eighth grader at a local school.

The gruesome rape crime committed by a madrasah super against a 10-year-old student in Sharankhola upazila could have been settled through a rural arbitration like what is usually done in many other rape incidents in Bangladesh but this time the victim’s father dared to move the court to secure justice for her daughter.  

The accused, identified as Rabiul Islam (19), Abdul Jalil (32) and local arbitration leader Saiful Islam (55), were arrested on Tuesday night, a day after the crime.  Inspector SM Abul Kalam Azad of Sherpur Police Station said that Rabiul and Jalil had forcibly taken the woman to Rabiul’s house on Mon

A female student of Jagannath University (JnU) filed a case against two unidentified youths for allegedly harassing her sexually near her university on Friday.

A schoolgirl has allegedly been gang-raped in a remote char of the Madhumati River in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur district.