Bangladesh Swatantra Ebtedayee Madrasha Shikshak Samity staged a sit in for the eighth consecutive day in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Monday demanding nationalization of all Ebtedayee madrashas.

9 Jan 2018, 12:00 am0

Report on bill seeking death sentence for rape submitted to JS

UNB, Dhaka :The report on the ‘Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020’, seeking death penalty for rape, was submitted to Parliament on Monday.Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Women and Children Affairs Ministry Meher Afroze submitted the report.The bill proposes amendments to the previous law to incorporate the death penalty as the maximum punishment for rape.In the proposed law, the punishment for rape is death penalty or life imprisonment. According to Article 9 (1) of the existing...

17 Nov 2020, 12:00 am