Dhaka Attack

Gulshan attack: Court seeks probe report by Aug 24

A Dhaka court orders Gulshan police to submit by August 24 the probe report in connection with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack that left 22 innocent people including several foreigners dead.
6 July 2016, 09:47 AM

Nibras used to be just like you and me

In the wake of the Dhaka attack that left 22 people killed, the nation is trying to come to terms with the identity of the killers who, it looks like, came from affluent families and even shared similar backgrounds as some of their victims in the attack.
6 July 2016, 09:24 AM

Attacker Nibras' family apologises to all

Attacker Nibras Islam's parents apologise to the nation, the countrymen and the victim's families for his involvement in terror attack at a restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone last Friday.
6 July 2016, 09:03 AM

Japanese killed in Dhaka café attack put up little resistance, autopsies indicate

The bodies of seven Japanese killed in a terrorist attack in Bangladesh had few scars, suggesting the victims had little time to resist before being fatally wounded, according to police autopsies conducted on the victims’ bodies.
6 July 2016, 07:49 AM

India 'to examine' request to ban Islamic preacher

If Bangladesh requests to ban, India will examine a controversial Indian Islamic preacher who was followed by one of the five Bangladeshi youths involved in the Gulshan terrorist attack that left 22 dead.
6 July 2016, 07:39 AM

Dhaka attack: Searching for the 'affluent jihadists'

"These are not men who did this in any random manner. These were people who were trained and knew exactly how to instil fear."
6 July 2016, 05:46 AM

Dhaka attack: Police say may have shot hostage

Police shot dead the pizza chef of a Dhaka restaurant, mistakenly thinking he was one of the militants who killed 20 people, and misread online warnings of an impending assault, police and government officials says.
6 July 2016, 04:44 AM

UC Berkeley vigil honors student Tarishi killed in Dhaka café attack

Students of UC Berkeley gathered Tuesday to remember one of their own with a vigil for Tarishi Jain, a victim of the Bangladesh terror attacks, who attended the university.
6 July 2016, 04:43 AM

Autopsy of Gulshan attackers done at CMH

The Autopsies of the six alleged terrorists who were killed during Bangladesh Army’s Operation Thunderbolt are completed at the Combined Military Hospital this evening.
5 July 2016, 19:33 PM

Diplomats dismayed by security lapses

Expressing serious concern over the systematic attacks and gradual escalation of terrorism and violent extremism, foreign diplomats in Dhaka stress the need for more effective security steps.
5 July 2016, 17:54 PM

Yunus calls for soul searching after Gulshan cafe attack

Expressing his shock at Friday's militant attack at a Gulshan cafe, Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus condoles family members of the 22 people brutally killed by the militants.
5 July 2016, 14:43 PM

Gulshan attacker Uzzal’s father, brother held in Bogra

Police detain the father and a brother of Shafiqul Islam Uzzal, one of the five militants who took part in the Gulshan restaurant attack on Friday, from their house in Dhunat upazila of Bogra.
5 July 2016, 13:39 PM

Gulshan attackers members of local militant outfits: home minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says the Gulshan cafe attackers were members of different banned and local militant outfits.
5 July 2016, 12:44 PM

Emory plans vigil for Faraaz and Abinta

Emory University says they will hold a vigil to remember two students killed when a group of armed extremists stormed a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
5 July 2016, 12:34 PM

“Tarishi wanted to live”

"Don't call her a martyr, she wanted to live," said Tulika Jain, mother of Tarishi who was killed in the Dhaka terror attack.
5 July 2016, 11:40 AM

Pakistan denies intel agency's role in Dhaka carnage

Pakistan's Foreign Office on Monday denied that Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) was behind the Dhaka carnage and described the allegations as “baseless and unfounded”.
5 July 2016, 10:09 AM

We have a new hero

The unprecedented Gulshan café attack that claimed lives of 20 hostages, most of them foreigners, seems to have compelled Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to refrain from accusing each other of patronising terrorists and carrying out attacks by their party men.
5 July 2016, 09:35 AM

Italian minister returns with victims’ bodies

Deputy Foreign Minister of Italy Mario Giro has returned to his country with the bodies of nine Italians killed in The Holey Artisan attack on Friday
5 July 2016, 05:53 AM

Dhaka siege: Bodies of 7 Japanese victims reach Tokyo

Bodies of the seven Japanese nationals who were killed in a militant attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Bangladesh capital Dhaka return to home soil Tuesday morning.
5 July 2016, 03:50 AM

Eid under painful circumstances

We are celebrating Eid this year in the backdrop of a tragedy that has shaken the nation, a time our most happy festival comes on the
4 July 2016, 18:00 PM