Bangladesh safer than Syria for jihadis: Taslima NasreenJihadists have been silencing or threatening voices of sanity because democracy and pluralism are anathema to them. All they want is to est...
16 May, 2016, 01.20 PM IST
Professor hacked to death near his home in BangladeshRajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, 58, was murdered within 50 metres of his residence in the country's northwestern ...
23 Apr, 2016, 10.36 AM IST
John Kerry asked to give humanitarian parole Bangladeshi bloggersSuzanne Nosse said US should take the lead to save these bloggers who face the risk of being murdered for the crime of expressing their vie...
22 Dec, 2015, 01.22 PM IST
Now Bangladeshi publisher Farid Ahmed gets death threatsA secular publisher in Bangladesh said he received death threats, a day after a publisher was killed while two bloggers were injured.
01 Nov, 2015, 04.02 PM IST
Remand extended for Bangladesh blogger's murder suspectsThe case's investigating officer, Detective Branch Inspector Mahmudur Rahman, had sought custody of the duo for another seven days.
04 Sep, 2015, 04.27 PM IST
Suspect confesses to murdering Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy DasMannan Rahi, a student of English department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), gave a confessional statement before...
03 Sep, 2015, 04.57 PM IST
Bangladesh charges 5 militants over blogger Washiqur Rahman's killingFive militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death an atheist blogger.
01 Sep, 2015, 07.02 PM IST
Bangladesh police get custody of 3 suspects in bloggers' murdersThe three, arrested in connection with the murders of Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das, are linked to the Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla T...
19 Aug, 2015, 10.38 PM IST
- Bangladesh blogger murder probe makes headway; 2 arrested
Two members of a banned al Qaeda- affiliated Bangladeshi militant group including nephew of a minister were today arrested in connection wi...
14 Aug, 2015, 09.09 PM IST
Six Bangladeshi activists threatened by Qaeda-linked IslamistsSix Bangladeshi activist have been allegedly threatened by Al Qaeda-linked extremists on Facebook, days after a fourth secular blogger was ...
11 Aug, 2015, 10.35 PM IST
Bangladesh police asks bloggers not to 'cross limit' while writing on religious issuesThe "freethinkers" should keep in mind that hurting someone's religious sentiment is a criminal offence, Bdnews quoted Hoque as saying.
10 Aug, 2015, 04.23 PM IST
Bangladesh welcome's FBI assistance in blogger's murder probeIt will welcome the FBI's assistance in investigating the murder of secular blogger Niloy Chakrabarty Neel who was brutally hacked to death.
09 Aug, 2015, 01.06 PM IST
Bangladesh scholars suspect Pakistan's hand behind attack on bloggersThe country's intellectuals here are suspecting Pakistan's hand behind the brutal attacks and feel that an international intervention is re...
23 Jun, 2015, 11.17 PM IST
Bangladesh is a secular country: Sheikh HasinaBangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised that Bangladesh is a secular country where people are free to practice their religio...
16 Jun, 2015, 01.49 PM IST
- Bangladesh bans Islamist group linked to blogger killings
Bangladesh today banned an Islamist militant outfit that is believed to be behind the gruesome hacking deaths of three secular bloggers in ...
25 May, 2015, 11.10 PM IST
Journalists' Forum Assam urges Sheikh Hasina government to probe bloggers' killingsThe CPJ urged the Hasina government to curb this violent trend by immediately finding Das's killers and bringing them to justice.
20 May, 2015, 03.18 PM IST
Bangladesh probing Al-Qaeda links in bloggers' murder: MinisterBangladesh said it has launched investigations into the involvement of Al-Qaeda's Indian Subcontinent unit in the killing of American athei...
04 May, 2015, 07.58 PM IST