ATTACK ON DOE DIRECTOR: Punishment for attackers demanded
Eminent environment and human rights activists in a statement on Wednesday demanded punishment for attackers who injured Department of Environment director Md Sawqat Ali....
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Environment drives should be adequately supported
THE violent attack on a Department of Environment director during a drive against illegal polythene production at Chawkbazar in Dhaka is worrying as it indicates a weak enforcement mechanism. The director was assaulted on January 26 and had a fractured nose after he had sealed off a factory illegally producing polythene bags. A similar violent attack took...
27 Nigerian soldiers killed in suicide attack
At least 27 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a jihadist suicide attack in the northeast, two army sources said on Sunday....
Elephant attack kills worker in Bandarban
A worker was killed as a wild elephant attack him in Lama upazila of Bandarban district early Saturday...
Attack on police station warrants tough action
THE attack on the New Market police station by activists of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, to snatch a detained leader is alarming and deplorable. About 50鈥�100 people attacked the station house about 4:10 am with brick chips, iron rods and hockey sticks after the police had brought...
30 killed in drone attack on hospital in Sudan鈥檚 Darfur
A drone attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in El-Fasher in Sudan鈥檚 Darfur region killed 30 people and injured dozens, a medical source said Saturday....
Global Sufi Organisation presents 4-point demand
Global Sufi Organisation on Thursday made a four-point charter of demands including security for Sufi institutions and a judicial investigation into recent attacks on shrines...
Five DB officers injured in attack during raid in Faridpur
Five officers have been injured- three of them seriously-in an attack on a team of Detective Branch of Faridpur district police during a raid on a drug and gambling den in Madhukhali in Faridpur....
Two killed in Germany knife attack
A 41-year-old man and a two-year-old boy were killed and two other people severely wounded in a knife attack in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday...
Punishment for those involved in Santal land grabbing demanded
Seventeen land and human rights organisations on Tuesday demanded punishment for those involved in land grabbing from the Santal community and the arson attack on a Santal house in Gobindganj of Gaibandha...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests on as advisers say meeting all demands impossible
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
CPB observes anniv of bomb attack on its Paltan rally
Leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh on Monday demanded punishment for killers involved in killing party鈥檚 leaders and activists in a bomb attack on party鈥檚 January 20, 2001 rally at Paltan Maidan...
Attacks on national minority student protests outrageous
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
2 killed in knife attack at Slovak school
A student killed at least two people and seriously wounded another in a knife attack Thursday at a secondary school in northeastern Slovakia, the TASR news agency reported...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests spreading
Amid the growing condemnation triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration, pressing for the re-inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks, at least seven individuals were injured again on Thursday when the police swooped on a protest rally tied to the issue in the capital...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Govt slams attack, starts probe
The interim government on Thursday strongly condemned Wednesday鈥檚 attack on ethnic minority students鈥� peaceful gathering in front of the NTCB in Dhaka...
Protesting ethnic minority students attacked
More than a dozen, mostly students belonging to different national minority communities, were injured in an attack by another group of students in front of the NCTB Bhaban in the capital on Wednesday over claim and counterclaim on the inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks...
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE CLAIMS: Most incidents political in nature: govt
Police have found that 1,234 incidents on the religious minorities were political in nature against a Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council claim that there were 2,010 incidents on the lives, properties and...
Santals鈥� security and rights to land must be protected
YET another attack on a Santal family shows that the authorities have failed to protect and ensure the rights of the community. A union council chair and his associates reportedly attacked members of a Santal family, including a woman, over a land dispute at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha on January 3. The Rajahar union council chair and his associates...
BCL leader arrested over attack on July protests
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested Sajibur Rahman Sajib, a leader of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, in a case filed over an attack on students during the quota reform movement on the Dhaka University campus in July 2024...
Russian attack on central Kyiv kills one
Russia launched an aerial attack on the centre of Kyiv in the first hours of 2025, killing one person, Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday...
Driver who killed 35 in China sentenced to death
A man who killed 35 people in a car attack in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai last month was sentenced to death on Friday, state media reported.
Four arrested over arson attack on Tripura Christian community houses at Lama
At least four people were arrested on Thursday in a case filed over an arson attack on the homes of Tripura Christian families at Lama upazila in Bandarban early Wednesday, on the eve of Christmas.
Interim govt condemns arson attack on homes of Tripura community in Lama
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government has strongly condemned the arson attack on the homes of the Tripura community in Lama upazila in Bandarban.
Christmas market attack suspect rails against Islam, Germany
The Saudi suspect in Germany鈥檚 deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market held strongly anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany's migrant and asylum policy...
Car attack on German Christmas market kills 2, Saudi man arrested
Saudi Arabia expressed 鈥榮olidarity鈥� with Germany on Friday after one of its nationals was arrested following a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market killing two people鈥�
Aug 21 Grenade Attack: HC for fresh probe
The High Court has called for a fresh, independent investigation into the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital that killed 24 people and injured hundreds...
Israel hits key Yemen sites
Yemen鈥檚 Huthi rebels on Thursday claimed a missile attack against Israel that was intercepted and prompted Israeli strikes on key infrastructure in Yemen including ports and energy facilities...
Russian army鈥檚 chemical weapons chief killed
The head of the Russian army鈥檚 chemical weapons division was killed on Tuesday in a brazen attack in Moscow claimed by Kyiv 鈥� the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin鈥檚 campaign in Ukraine drags on...
Israeli strikes kill 40 Palestinians
Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera said its cameraman Ahmed al-Louh was killed 鈥榠n an Israeli bombardment鈥� that targeted Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza...