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Bangladeshi man with 28 marriages held at 25th wife's complaint
World | Jan 27, 2017, 10:14 PM ISTA Bangladeshi man accused of having secretly marrying 28 women has been arrested after his 25th wife filed dowry harassment complaint against him, a media report said. Yasin Byapari was arrested by the police from
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Major mishap averted as tail of Jet Airways plane with 168 aboard hits runway on landing in Dhaka
India | Jan 24, 2017, 07:13 PM ISTIn a narrow escape for 168 people onboard a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai, the tail of the aircraft hit the runway on landing at the Dhaka International airport last week. Following the incident, the
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Dhaka cafe reopens six months after terror attack that claimed 22 lives
World | Jan 12, 2017, 02:10 PM ISTThe upscale cafe in Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka, where Islamist militants killed 22 hostages including an Indian girl in the country's worst terror attack last year has reopened.
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Female militant, teen blow themselves up during police raid in Dhaka
World | Dec 24, 2016, 06:22 PM ISTA female militant and a teenage boy were reportedly killed today as they blew themselves up in Dhaka when Bangladesh police’s elite counter-terrorism unit raided their three-storey building where heavily-armed militants, belonging to an Islamist
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Hindu temple vandalised, 7 idols smashed in Bangladesh
World | Dec 04, 2016, 09:03 PM ISTIn the latest attack on Hindu houses of worship in Bangladesh, a temple was today vandalised and seven symbols of goddess Kali were wrecked by a few miscreants in two separate incidents. The first incident
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Were the pictures of ‘blood-filled’ Dhaka streets on Eid al-Adha photoshopped?
World | Sep 16, 2016, 06:14 PM ISTA day after terrifying pictures of blood streams running across the streets in Dhaka on Eid al-Adha created a buzz on social media, some people in India have now started claiming the pictures to be forged and merely a Photoshop trick.
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This is how Dhaka streets turned into rivers of blood on Eid al-Adha
World | Sep 14, 2016, 04:17 PM ISTAmidst the celebration of Eid al-Adha, citizens of Dhaka witnessed a terrifying sight as blood streams ran across the streets in the city. Intermittent rains since early in the morning had led to water logging
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ISIS ‘celebrates Eid’ by hanging ‘US spies’ from meat hooks and ‘butchering them like sheep’
World | Sep 14, 2016, 01:15 PM ISTISIS released a new execution video in which they hung prisoners upside down from meat hooks and ‘butchered them like sheep’.
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Dhaka cafe attack mastermind's deputy shot dead in Bangladesh
World | Sep 03, 2016, 08:14 AM ISTBangladesh police on Friday raided a militant hideout here and killed a top Islamist extremist who helped plan the the Dhaka cafe siege and was the deputy of attack 'mastermind' Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury.
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Dhaka cafe attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury killed: Police
World | Aug 27, 2016, 01:03 PM ISTBangladesh police has claimed that four terrorists, including the mastermind of the infamous Dhaka cafe attack have been killed.
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Bangladesh police neutralise nine Islamist militants in Dhaka
World | Jul 26, 2016, 08:44 AM ISTBangladesh police said that they killed nine suspected Islamic militants in a raid on a building in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area.
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Professor among three arrested for sheltering Dhaka terror attackers
World | Jul 17, 2016, 12:07 PM ISTDhaka: A university professor, acting as deputy vice chancellor of a private university, is among three people arrested for sheltering terrorists who carried out terror attack at a cafe in Dhaka in which 22 people
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Homegrown Islamists may be trying to link up with ISIS: Bangladesh
World | Jul 10, 2016, 09:16 PM ISTBangladesh today said there was no direct involvement of the ISIS in the recent attacks, including on Hindus and others minorities, but acknowledged that homegrown Islamist outfits may be trying to establish links with the dreaded terror group throug
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Bangladesh bans broadcasting of Zakir Naik's Peace TV
World | Jul 10, 2016, 03:37 PM ISTThe Bangladesh government today banned the broadcasting of India-based controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's Peace TV, PTI reported.
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Dhaka cafe attackers used five pistols, two AK-22 rifles
World | Jul 07, 2016, 07:58 PM ISTTerrorists, who carried out attack in a Dhaka cafe on July 1 killing 22 people, were armed with five pistols and three AK-22 rifles.
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Terror strikes Bangladesh on Eid; four including two cops killed, one terrorist held
World | Jul 07, 2016, 05:42 PM ISTDhaka: Almost a week after the gruesome Dhaka attack, a bomb explosion rocked Bangladesh's Kishoreganj district today killing one policeman and leaving several injured. The blast took place near entrance of country's largest Eid congregation
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Appropriate action to be taken against Zakir Naik, says Kiren Rijiju
National | Jul 06, 2016, 08:43 PM ISTNew Delhi: The government today suggested it was planning an action against controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, who, in Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery, was followed by militants who killed 20 persons. It was a
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6th July News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day
India | Jul 06, 2016, 07:30 PM ISTImportant news stories
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Dhaka attack just a glimpse of what’s coming, says IS; warns of more brutal attacks
World | Jul 06, 2016, 07:28 PM ISTDhaka: Days after a terror attack in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, the Islamic State today sent out a video message warning of more terror attacks in the country, adding that last week's attack was
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We may have shot a hostage by mistake, confesses Bangladesh police
World | Jul 05, 2016, 08:49 PM ISTDhaka: Amidst the on-going mourning over the dreaded terror attack in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi police today confessed the security forces may have mistook a hostage as one of the attackers and shot him dead. In