Blogger Death
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University professor hacked to death in Bangladesh, IS militants claim responsibility
World | Apr 24, 2016, 08:47 AM ISTIn an incident reminiscent of the spate of similar killings of secular bloggers and atheist activists, a university professor was on Saturday hacked to death by unidentified assailants less than 50 metres from his residence in the northern Rajshahi c
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US offers Bangladesh FBI help to probe murders of bloggers
World | Apr 12, 2016, 06:54 AM ISTWashington: The US has offered FBI's assistance to Bangladesh to collaborate in its investigations into a spate of murders involving secular bloggers, including the recent killing of a law student who posted comments against radical
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Two suspects arrested in Bangladesh blogger murder case
World | Aug 14, 2015, 12:53 PM ISTDhaka: Police in Bangladesh's capital on Friday arrested two suspected Muslim militants in the killing of a secular blogger last week in the fourth such deadly attack this year.Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Muntasirul Islam identified
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Bangladesh scholars suspect Pakistan's hand behind attack on bloggers
World | Jun 23, 2015, 11:38 PM ISTDhaka: With the recent killings of three secular bloggers in Bangladesh by fundamentalists, the country's intellectuals here are suspecting Pakistan's hand behind the brutal attacks and feel that an international intervention is required to ensure
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Bangladesh on high alert after bloggers' killing: Minister
World | Jun 08, 2015, 05:32 PM ISTDhaka: Bangladesh is on high alert following the hacking to death of three secular bloggers in recent months, a senior minister said as he blamed home-grown elements like fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for the brutal killings that
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