A teenager has been detained under Bangladesh’s harsh internet laws for making a music video mocking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, according to local Bangladeshi…
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A Dhaka court has again rejected bail petitions of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed in a case filed under the Digital Security Act. Mr. Kishore was arrested…
– A young man was hacked to death in broad day light in front of a crowd in Bangladesh. The video of the victims wife trying to save him (while…
Nusrat Rafi, 18, who studied at the Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrassa in the Chittagong division of southeastern Bangladesh, was attacked and beaten by a group of male students clad…
Bangladesh Police is searching for a serial killer who calls himself ‘Hercules’ and has murdered three gang-rapists so far. The latest dead body recovered by the local police had a…
IT’S now a national crisis. The influx of deadly yaba appears to have gone beyond control despite efforts by law enforcement agencies to contain it. In 2006, only the rich…
Bangladesh’s telecoms regulator located in Dhaka has ‘shut down’ 58 online news portals, citing security reasons, as officials scrutinise hundreds of sites before a parliamentary election this month. The move…
The much-debated Bangladesh Digital Security Bill (2018) was passed in the parliament last night with a harsh provision allowing police officials to search or arrest anyone without any warrant. Section 43…
A female journalist of a private television channel was gang raped in front of her 9 year old daughter by a dozen men then hacked to death at her home…
Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed is a TV and film actress and voice artiste. Ahmed was arrested was on 4 August 2018 from Uttara Dhaka Bangladesh by the local law enforcers named…
The Bangladesh Liberation War (Bengali: মুক্তিযুদ্ধ Muktijuddho), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in what…
Bangladesh: A picture shared by Bangladeshi Photographer Jibon Ahmed on his social media handle hasn’t gone viral but also made him pay the price. What’s there in that sensational/controversial pic?…
Mahmudur Rahman (Bengali: মাহমুদুর রহমান; born 6 July 1953) is the one of the owners and the editor of one of Bangladesh’s Bengali daily newspapers, Amar Desh. He is also an engineer and businessman. Amar Desh…
– In Bangladesh headlines are dominated by violence: Secular bloggers murdered by islamic extremists, government opponents disappear, the Hindu minority is under attack. The country that wants to reconcile democracy…
A Bangladeshi man has been detained for stripping naked & attacking a female flight attendant while masturbating on her uniform skirt during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Dhaka. The…
A top secular / science fiction novel writer named Zafar Iqbal has been attacked at a local Bangladeshi university. Writer Zafar Iqbal was reportedly stabbed in public in front of…
A 13 year old Bangladeshi school girl named Aziza Khatun was burnt alive after allegations of stealing her Aunty’s mobile phone were found out to be true. Beauty Begum, the…
Bangladesh scored 8th position in the list of high suicide-prone countries, as it witnessed nearly ten incidents of suicides among every 100,000 people, an official report of the World Health…
Bangladeshi Police Force demands a bribe of TK2,000 (USD $25) leading to Self-Immolation of Rickshaw puller named Shamin Sikder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KODLqi5IqXU – Shamim Sikder is a 35 year old rickshaw puller…
Since its independence in 1971 from the then West Pakistan, Bangladesh – a Muslim majority country – has had its fair share of Multiple Personality Disorder when it comes to…