BNP, Yunus administration equally responsible: Dhaka students protest over trader's brutal murder

IANS | July 13, 2025 2:33 PM

Dhaka, July 13 (IANS) Students in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, held a torch procession and rally on the campus of Jahangirnagar University (JU) to demand justice for a trader who was brutally murdered recently. The students expressed their frustration, stating that last year's protest in July was ineffective, as criminal activities have continued to rise even after a change in power, according to local media reports on Sunday.

Kolkata Police forms nine-member SIT to probe IIM-Calcutta rape case

IANS | July 13, 2025 12:53 PM

Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Police have formed a nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged rape of an outsider woman by a second-year student of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) inside the campus hostel at Joka in Kolkata.

Why no RG Kar-like mass outcry on Kasba law college rape case?

Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri | July 13, 2025 11:55 AM

Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Almost three weeks have passed since the incident of rape of a law college student took place within her college premises at Kasba in South Kolkata, however, no public outcry has been witnessed like the one seen over the rape and murder of a woman doctor at state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Another gruesome murder in Dhaka exposes clueless Yunus govt's massive failure

IANS | July 12, 2025 8:26 PM

Dhaka, July 12 (IANS) The brutal murder of 43-year-old scrap trader Lal Chand Sohag in Dhaka has not only shocked Bangladeshis but several people around the world, who have slammed the Mohammad Yunus-led interim government for the sheer lawlessness that currently prevails in the South Asian country.

Tennis player's killing: Radhika dreamt of working abroad; father sent to 14-days’ judicial custody

IANS | July 12, 2025 1:31 PM

Gurugram, July 12 (IANS) Just days before her murder, tennis player Radhika Yadav was in discussions with her Dubai-based coach to work abroad despite her killer father’s objection. The ambitious young girl wanted to work in Australia, Dubai or China and wanted to leave home latest by October-November, one of her chats shared by investigators revealed on Saturday.

Bangladesh erupts in protest after trader lynched in Dhaka

IANS | July 12, 2025 9:28 AM

Dhaka, July 12 (IANS) Protests have erupted across multiple college campuses and streets of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, following the brutal killing of a scrap metal trader, Lal Chand alias Sohag, in broad daylight near the Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital on July 9.