2 get life term for raping mother, daughter

A court in here on Tuesday sentenced two people to life term imprisonment over gang rape of a mother and her daughter in Chunarughat upazila of the district in 2020. Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Mohammad Jahidul Haque pronounced the verdict this afternoon. The court also fined them

HC recognizes mothers as legal guardians of children

In a historic judgment on Tuesday, the High Court said that from now mothers too will be recognised as the legal guardians of children in different official documents.The High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil pronounced the judgment. After hearing on January 16, the court fixed January

Graft Case: Court frames charges against GK Shamim, mother

A Dhaka court on Wednesday framed charges against "influential" contractor GK Shamim and his mother Ayesha Akter in a disproportionate assets case. Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam of the Dhaka Special Judge Court-4, framed the charges against the mother-son duo for corruption and fixed November 7 as the next date for hearing

‘Pray for me,’ fireman Shakil’s last words to mother

"Pray for me," were the final words fireman Shakil Tarafdar uttered to his mother over phone before joining the operation to douse the deadly fire at the BM container depot in Sitakunda of Chattogram Saturday night. Shakil, son of Sattar Tarafdar and Jasmine Begum of Sukhdara village in Batiaghata upazila of

Mother, daughter among 4 killed in Rajshahi road crash

A day after a horrific road accident in Goplaganj that left nine people including three couples dead, four people including a woman and her daughter, were killed in another road crash on Rajshahi-Naogaon highway in Paba upazila on Sunday. One of the deceased was identified as Abdul Mannan, 48 of Manda