Cesare Tavella

Tavella murder trial to proceed

The High Court clears the way for the lower court concerned to continue the trial proceedings of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder case.
Charge sheets this week

Police are set to submit within a week charge sheets in last year's murders of two foreigners -- Italian national Cesare Tavella and
Tavella killing: Matin on 5-day remand

A Dhaka court places MA Matin on a five-day remand in connection with the killing of the Italian national Cesare Tavella.
Couple injured in Uttara ‘robbery’

A Taiwan couple is injured by suspected robbers at their Uttara residence in Dhaka.
Tavella killing: Matin on 8-day remand

A Dhaka court places MA Matin on an eight-day remand in connection with the killing of Italian national Cesare Tavella. Matin is younger brother of MA Quayum, Dhaka city BNP joint convener and a former BNP-backed ward commissioner.
An Uncomfortable Centre Stage

We cannot and will not shy away just because some boro bhai (elder borther) somewhere thought killing an innocent Italian national would set Bangladesh off its course.
Headway in the Tavella case

After weeks of little visible progress in the investigation of the murder of Cesare Tavella, an Italian national, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has caught four suspects involved in the killing and recovered a motorcycle that was apparently used by the murderers to escape.
Tavella killing: 'Target was any white man'

Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder suspects confess to being hired for killing “a white man” to create anarchy in the country, according to chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Foreign missions’ red alerts excesses: Muhith

Finance Minister AMA Muhith describes the alerts issued by different diplomatic missions in Dhaka after the murder of the two foreign nationals as excesses.
Don’t blame BNP for foreigner killings: Fakhrul

BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urges the government not to put the blame on BNP for the killings of two foreigners in Bangladesh.
US travel alert won’t hamper Bangladesh’s economy: Muhith

Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the US travel alert for its citizens in Bangladesh will not hamper the country’s economy.
Tavella murder blueprint unearthed: DMP chief

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said they have unearthed the conspiracy and blueprint behind the killing of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella.
Tavella murder: DMP rules out militant link

Dhaka Metropolitan Police find no militant link to the murder of Italian national Cesare Tavella blaming local and foreign conspiracy.
Tavella’s body handed over

Body of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella, who was killed in Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic zone, has been handed over to the country’s local mission.
Tavella’s body may be sent to Italy tomorrow

The body of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella, who was shot dead in Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic zone, might to be sent back to his country tomorrow.
Police maintain strict vigilance in diplomatic zone

Police and other law enforcing agencies continue frequent patrols in Dhaka’s Gulshan-Baridhara diplomatic zone as part of stepped up vigilance measures.
Minister hopes to unfold foreigner killings’ mystery soon

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says the mystery behind killing of two foreign nationals will be cracked soon and the perpetrators identified.
BNP being falsely blamed for foreigner killings: Fakhrul

BNP alleges that the government is blaming the party for the murder of two foreigners without any proof in a bid to hide its failure.
Cops claim 15 IS suspects' arrest

Since September last year, police claim to have arrested about 20 suspected Islamic State members, militants having contacts or trying to establish link with the terrorist outfit.
2 remanded over Japanese citizen murder

A Rangpur court today placed Rashed-un-Nabi Khan Biplob,a local BNP activist, and Humayun Kabir Hira on a 10-day remand in Japanese national Hoshi Kunio murder case.
‘Highest alert’ on Benapole border

The authorities issue what they term ‘highest alert’ on the Benapole border to stop killers of two foreigners from escaping the country.
US working with Bangladesh to verify ‘IS claims’: Envoy

US Ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says her country is working with the Bangladesh government to verify the alleged IS claims of killing two foreign nationals in Bangladesh last week.
Foreigner murders: BNP blames lack of good governance

The governments’ lack of good governance is to be blamed for the recent murders of the two foreign nationalities, a BNP spokesperson says.
Probe to find link between foreigners’ murder: Kamal

Law enforcers work to find whether there is any link between the killings of two foreigners in the span of five days, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says.
Japanese national gunned down in Rangpur

Five days into the killing of an Italian citizen in Dhaka, a Japanese national is gunned down in northern district of Rangpur. Five persons detained for interrogation.
New kind of violence undid BCB plans

Ultimately it was the killing of an Italian national in Dhaka by unknown perpetrators that is believed, within the BCB, to have led to Australia calling off their tour of Bangladesh.
DMP forms team to assist Tavella murder probe

Dhaka Metropolitan Police forms an 11-memebr police team to assist the investigation officer of Italian national killing case.
Italian killing not IS job: Kamal

Ruling out the existence of militant outfit Islamic State in the country, Home Minister Kamal says both Bangladesh and Italy primarily agree that the militant outfit was not involved with killing of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella.
Govt trying to shift blame of foreign national murder: Fakhrul

BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims the government is trying to shift the blame for the murder of Italian national Cesare Tavella in Dhaka to others.
Foreign missions’ alert surprises PM

There is no justification of alert, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says expressing her surprise as some diplomatic missions in Dhaka issued the alert for their nationals following the murder of an Italian citizen in Dhaka.