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BNP leader-led attack in Bagerhat injures four policemen

A group led by a local leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party reportedly attacked the police in Kachua upazila’s Gajalia Bridge area Tuesday night in an attempt to snatch an arrested crime suspect, leaving four police officers injured....

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Attack on journalists surges

Attacks on journalists increased sharply beginning in February. International rights groups on March 21 urged the government to protect the freedom of expression and opinion.

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RSF attacks kill 50 in Khartoum in one week

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed at least 50 people in Khartoum during the past week, rescuers said Wednesday, as fighting with the army for control of the capital intensifies...

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Govt to get tough with mob attacks: Mahfuj Alam

Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam on Sunday said that the interim government had decided that from now on it would get tough with all kinds of mob attacks in the country.

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Women’s rights under attack: UN

Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender discrimination remains deeply embedded in economies and societies...

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Blaming victims, shielding mob

THE March 3 protest at Lalmatia that Bangladesh Against Rape and Harassment held was not just a response to a single event but the culmination of growing disappointment with the government’s failure to protect women from escalating violence. The demonstrators, predominantly woman activists and concerned citizens, burnt an effigy of the home affairs adviser...

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Cabinet discusses mob attacks, harassments

The advisory council on Tuesday discussed the recent incidents of mob attacks and harassments, especially a mob attack at Mohammadpur in the capital Dhaka.

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2 killed, 4 hurt in Ctg mob beating

Two men were beaten to death and four others were injured in a mob attack over alleged robbery suspicion at Satkania in Chattogram Monday evening.

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Cumilla Victoria College principal attacked

The principal of Cumilla Victoria Government College, Professor Mohammad Abul Bashar Bhuiyan, along with several other teachers, was injured during an incident between two groups over the firing of an imam at the mosque of college on Friday...

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Vehicles looted blocking Pabna highway

A robbery gang blocked the Santhia-Bera road with logs and looted at least eight vehicles near the Chechania Bridge under Santhia upazila in Pabna early Saturday and three suspected robbers were beaten to death after a robbery attempt...

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2 arrested for attack on police

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion on Thursday arrested two youths allegedly engaged in drug dealing for attack on police in Karwan Bazar area of Dhaka city on Thursday...

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KUET ATTACK: Students give memo to CA

A group of students from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday offered a memorandum to chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus demanding the arrest of attackers on KUET students on its campus on February 18 and the resignation of the university’s vice-chancellor...

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Firm govt action needed against attacks on women

A SERIES of attacks on and harassment of women and the government’s failure to attend to the issues are a worrying sign. A significant number of women, especially players, athletes, celebrities and sex workers, have been attacked by people and groups with Islamist bent, weaving a pattern of the right wing rearing its head in the absence of deterrent government action...

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Attack on bookstall: Revisiting the Taslima Nasrin affair

IN 2009-2010, I was on research leave from the University of Dhaka to do a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I was going to work on a project titled ‘From Rokeya to Taslima: Trends in Muslim Feminism in South Asia’ — a topic related to my doctoral research completed at the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2007 under the supervision of...

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BISWANATHPUR POLICE STATION ATTACK: 2,500 unnamed people sued

Police filed a case against 2,500 unidentified people on charges of arson, vandalism, looting of government weapons and ammunition and attacking policemen of Bishwanathpur police station in Sylhet on August 5 after the fall of the fascist amid the student-led mass uprising...