blogger murder
Tk 5 lakh bounty announced again for Selim
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) again announces a bounty of Tk 5 lakh for Selim, a top leader of Ansarullah Bangla Team, seeking information for his arrest in connection with the killings of several bloggers including Avijit Roy.
17 August 2016, 11:14 AM
Counter-terrorism cell soon: Home minister
In an effort to curb terrorism, the Home Ministry today decides to set up a 24/7 anti-terrorism cell to monitor all the information related to terrorism and pass that on to relevant law enforcement agencies.
27 April 2016, 12:59 PM
Killing aimed at putting govt in trouble: Ashraf
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam says incidents like recent frequent killings are being carried out to put the government in a difficult situation.
26 April 2016, 14:17 PM
Nazim killed to divert attention from Tonu murder: Imran
Imran H Sarker, spokesperson of a faction of Ganajagaran Mancha, says that Jagannath University student Nazimuddin Samad was killed in a bid to shift people’s attention from Tonu murder.
7 April 2016, 15:55 PM
Avijit murder: Light was inadequate, cops say
Police say the road in front of Bangla Academy where blogger Avijit Roy was killed last year was not adequately lit.
30 January 2016, 07:52 AM
3 held over blogger Niloy murder
Detectives yesterday arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in killing blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.
18 November 2015, 09:35 AM
Blogger Ananta murder: Accused admits involvement
Mannan Rahi, an accused of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder, gives a confessional statement before a Sylhet court.
2 September 2015, 13:14 PM
2 Ansarullah Bangla Team men on 5-day remand
A Dhaka court places two members of banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team on a five-day remand each in connection with the blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy murder case.
28 August 2015, 10:07 AM
2 suspects held over Niloy murder
Detectives arrested two alleged members of Ansarullah Bangla Team today in connection with their involvement in blogger Niloy murder.
13 August 2015, 16:06 PM
THE SOVEREIGN TERROR
Political events often fade away without leaving immediately palpable effects. Loud as their arrivals are, most political events tend to disappear much like a whimper.
10 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Serial killing of bloggers
It is disquieting to note that the law enforcing agencies have not yet been able to make any tangible progress in connection with the murder of the four bloggers who were killed in the last seven months.
10 August 2015, 18:00 PM
DB takes over Niloy murder probe
DB takes over charge of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy’s murder probe from police, three days after the killing.
10 August 2015, 08:43 AM
Online writers and activists must be protected
THE serial killing of bloggers in Bangladesh, with little development as far as catching and punishing the assassins are concerned, has compelled the Human Rights Forum (Bangladesh) to call upon the government to provide protection to online writers/activists, many of them still on the hit-list of religious extremists.
21 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Has the country turned into a killing ground for free thinkers?
If one analyses why criminality and corruption are so pervasive in the society, the first and foremost answer would be the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Fatima Bhutto slams killing of Bangladeshi bloggers
Fatima Bhutto, grand-daughter of former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto criticizes the murder of Bangladeshi bloggers in her article.
16 May 2015, 06:11 AM
Brutal crimes shake society again
The country had become a “soft” state revealing itself to be completely incapable of fighting the forces of violence and terror. True, the patronage of criminals by politicians in the past and a demoralised police force pushed up the crime graph in the country.
15 May 2015, 18:00 PM
“TARGETING FREE THINKERS”
In just over two years, Bangladesh has lost five dynamic, assertive, free thinkers to gruesome acts of deliberate violence.
14 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Case filed over Ananta murder
Case filed accusing four anonymous assailants over brutal killing of writer and blogger Ananta Bijoy. No one arrested until now.
13 May 2015, 05:20 AM
UK, EU condemn blogger Ananta murder
United Kingdom and European Union have strongly condemned the brutal murder of Ananta Bijoy Das, blogger and organiser of local Gonojagoron Mancha in Sylhet.
12 May 2015, 13:03 PM
BANGLADESH
ANOTHER blogger" is the phrase most English news media worldwide used in their headlines of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu's
13 April 2015, 18:00 PM