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FBI to assist CID to identify hackers

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is to team up with Bangladesh police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate the cyber heist at Bangladesh Bank’s account with New York’s Federal Reserve Bank.
20 March 2016, 09:22 AM

Cyber heist: IGP dwells on int’l agencies’ help

Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque has said if needed, help would be sought from the international agencies dealing with money laundering, for unveiling the clue to the $101 million cyber heist at Bangladesh Bank.
19 March 2016, 07:28 AM

Heist: CID to hold meeting with FBI tomorrow

The Criminal Investigation Department of police will hold a meeting with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in the city tomorrow over the heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
17 March 2016, 16:00 PM

Apple boss hits back at FBI conduct

Apple boss Tim Cook has hit back at the FBI over the handling of a court order to help unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook.
25 February 2016, 06:41 AM

Avijit murder: FBI reports soon

Examination of the 11 evidence, which were collected from the crime scene of blogger Avijit murder and sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have been completed, Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said today.
15 February 2016, 09:00 AM

California shooter messaged Facebook friends about jihad support

One of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a small group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014, pledging her support for Islamic jihad and saying she hoped to join the fight one day.
15 December 2015, 05:58 AM

California shooters had target practice: FBI

Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week - a US-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalised "for quite some time," but no clues pointing to an international plot have yet emerged, the FBI said on Monday.
8 December 2015, 04:57 AM

FBI probes Blatter bribe scandal role

The FBI is investigating the role played by Fifa president Sepp Blatter in a $100m (£66.2m) bribes scandal, a BBC investigation has discovered.
7 December 2015, 04:43 AM

Wikileaks claims release of CIA boss’s emails

Wikileaks claims to have released some of the contents of CIA director John Brennan's personal email account.
22 October 2015, 07:52 AM

Priyanka plays FBI agent on ABC

Priyanka stars a rookie FBI agent Alex Parrish, who becomes a prime suspect in a terrorist attack. This is the first time the actress, singer and Miss World has acted as a lead in an American TV series, and the hopes to makes her name in Hollywood.
4 October 2015, 06:45 AM

Priyanka Chopra to appear on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'

Actress Priyanka Chopra, who plays an FBI agent in her international debut TV show "Quantico", will now be seen on popular American late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
29 September 2015, 06:26 AM

FBI offers to help Niloy murder probe

The FBI has shown its interest to help the Dhaka Metropolitan Police investigate the murder of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy, according to police.
8 August 2015, 13:36 PM

Priyanka Chopra shares leaked image of Quantico (video)

Priyanka Chopra shares a video where she is wrapped in nothing but a flag bearing the emblem of the FBI to promote her latest American TV series Quantico.
9 June 2015, 15:11 PM

Fifa 'took bribes for 2010 World Cup' - Loretta Lynch

Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said.
27 May 2015, 06:15 AM

Police did not act, says Avijit’s wife

Rafida Ahmed Bonya, wife of murdered blogger-writer Avijit Roy, says she did not get proper cooperation from law enforcers when they came under attack on February 26.
10 March 2015, 14:18 PM

Get DNA test done by FBI, court tells Avijit murder investigators

A Dhaka court today ordered the Detective Branch (DB) of police to get a DNA test of the Avijit Roy murder evidence done by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
10 March 2015, 11:19 AM

I would have shot Barack Obama: Ohio man

An Ohio man claiming sympathy with Islamic State militants and charged with plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol says he would have shot President Barack Obama in the head
7 March 2015, 05:30 AM

FBI team visits Avijit murder scene at DU

A four-member team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and detectives are inspecting the crime scene at Dhaka University where writer-blogger Avijit Roy was killed on February 26.
6 March 2015, 09:08 AM

Sleepwalking to cliff edge?

THE US government has taken two exemplary steps in the wake of the brutal killing of Avijit Roy of Mokto Mona fame when he was returning with his spouse from Ekushey Boi Mela on Thursday last. First, it has flown out of a Dhaka hospital his critically injured wife Bonya Ahmad, taking her under the wings of a US hospital. Secondly, the US authorities are sending an FBI team to investigate Avijit's murder.
5 March 2015, 18:00 PM

FBI team in Dhaka

A four-member team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrived in Dhaka to help in investigation into the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy.
5 March 2015, 11:01 AM