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Woman gang-raped for 25 days in Mohammadpur

A 23-year-old woman had been shackled and gang-raped for 25 days in Mohammadpur.

Why Bilkis Bano’s rapists should be behind bars

Men who raped Bilkis Bano during 2002 Gujarat riots allowed to walk free on the same day that PM Modi promised to make the nation a better place for women.

Rape in bus: 5 suspects land in Gazipur jail

All five men, accused of gang-raping a woman in a moving bus in Gazipur on Friday night, were sent to jail by a court yesterday.

Robbery, rape on bus in Tangail: Mastermind among 10 arrested

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested 10 persons including the mastermind in the cases filed over the gang-rape of a woman and looting of valuables of passengers after hijacking a bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on August 3, 2022.

Robbery, rape on bus in Tangail: One arrested

Police arrested an alleged member of a robbery gang which raped a woman and took away passengers’ valuables after taking control of a bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on Wednesday.

Robbers gang-rape passenger after taking control of bus in Tangail

Robbers gang-raped a female passenger after taking control of a bus in Tangail early today (August 3, 2022).

9 Bangladeshis jailed for gang rape in India

A special court in India’s Bengaluru city has convicted nine Bangladeshis and punished them with sentences ranging from five years to life imprisonment in connection with the gang-rape of a Bangladeshi woman in May last year.

Bengaluru gang rape: India hands over Bangladeshi victim

India today (May 21, 2022) handed over the victim, who was gang-raped in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru in May last year, to Bangladesh.

April 2, 2016
April 2, 2016

Tangail rape: 2 key accused remanded

A Tangail court grants three-day remand against two of the three prime accused in connection with the rape of a female garment worker in a running bus in Madhupur upazila of the district.

December 20, 2015
December 20, 2015

Delhi juvenile gang rapist freed amid protests

The youngest convict in the notorious 2012 Delhi gang rape case has been released from a correctional centre.

October 29, 2015
October 29, 2015

Indian hanged girls: Court rejects probe ruling out rape

An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.

October 17, 2015
October 17, 2015

Indian girls aged two and five 'gang-raped' in New Delhi: Police

Two Indian girls aged two-and-a-half and five years old were raped in separate incidents in New Delhi overnight.

September 11, 2015
September 11, 2015

Can a piece of jewellery make you safe?

Paras Batra, the sales head at Leaf, creates a pendant having a small triangular chip embedded in the back which, if pressed twice, connects to an app that then sends out an alert to designated mobile phones of "guardians" who can then track the wearer's location and movement on Google Maps.

August 15, 2015
August 15, 2015

Varsity admission seeker ‘raped’ in Dhaka

Two youths allegedly rape a university admission seeker at a Moghbazar residential hotel in Dhaka.

July 31, 2015
July 31, 2015

Girl gang-raped in Dhaka

A female worker is gang-raped allegedly by one of her colleagues and his two cohorts in Uttara area of Dhaka.

June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015

South Sudan conflict: Army 'raped and torched girls'

South Sudan's army and allied militias "abducted, torched and gang-raped girls" during fighting against rebel forces, a UN report says.

June 20, 2015
June 20, 2015

College student 'raped' in Dhaka

A college student was allegedly raped in the city and police have arrested two men in this connection.

June 17, 2015
June 17, 2015

ASI arrested for gang-rape on policewoman

The policeman who allegedly accompanied his cohorts and gang-raped his divorced cop wife has been arrested from Cox’s Bazar’s this morning, law enforcers says.