Gulshan attack

Gulshan café attack: Then OC, 10 others testify

Prosecution witness Sirajul Islam, who was the officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station on July 1, 2016, gave a vivid description of the Holey Artisan cafe attack in the capital’s Gulshan before a Dhaka court yesterday.

Trial ‘to be completed’ by year end

The trial for the case filed over the terror attack on Holey Artisan Café in the capital’s Gulshan in 2016, the worst terrorist attack in the country, is expected to be completed by this year.

Tk 12.5 lakh spent on Holey Artisan attack

The militant group “Neo JMB” spent around Tk 12.5 lakh to carry out the Gulshan café attack and the money was collected by selling a private car of an operative of the militant group.

Gulshan Café Attack / Two years on, wounds still fresh

Wreaths of flowers in hand, she walked into the old premises of the Holey Artisan Bakery yesterday. Tears were streaming down her

2 yrs of Gulshan tragedy / All-out efforts in tough times only

Socio-political campaigns against militancy get momentum after a major terror attack but fizzle out when the situation comes under control. Then a laid-back attitude prevails until terrorists regroup and strike again.

Gulshan attack: Cops to press charges against 8 ‘militants’

Police are going to press charges against eight alleged militants in a case filed over the deadly terrorist attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan on July 1, 2016, a top counterterrorism official says.

Holey Artisan Attack: 'Neo JMB' man admits supplying arms

“Neo JMB” leader Hadisur Rahman Sagor yesterday confessed before a magistrate that he had supplied arms and explosives used in

Gulshan café attack ‘arms supplier’ Sagor gives confessional statement

“Neo JMB” member Hadisur Rahman Sagor, who was arrested allegedly for supplying arms in Holey Artisan Bakery attack in 2016, gives his confessional statement before a magistrate.

Gulshan Attack: 'Arms supplier' left den 2 days before raid

Hadisur Rahman Sagor, one of the most wanted suspects in last year's Gulshan café attack, left a militant den in Ghop Nawapara area of Jessore just two days before police busted it yesterday.

July 26, 2017
July 26, 2017

A 'turning point' in fight against terror

The operation “Storm 26” in the capital's Kalyanpur last year was a turning point for law enforcers as documents seized at a “Neo JMB” den there and information gathered subsequently helped law enforcers fight back against the country's rising terror network, counterterrorism officials said.

July 24, 2017
July 24, 2017

Gulshan Café Attack: Sohel ‘admits’ he supplied bombs

Sohel Mahfuz, a key “Neo JMB” leader, yesterday confessed before a magistrate that he had supplied all the bombs used in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in the capital's Gulshan on July 1 last year, court sources said.

July 16, 2017
July 16, 2017

Dhaka café attack: Cops asked to submit report by Aug 27

A Dhaka court asks the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to submit by August 27 the probe report of the case filed over Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Gulshan of Dhaka.

July 10, 2017
July 10, 2017

Sohel Mahfuz: A Valued hand for 'Neo JMB'

After the emergence of “Neo JMB” in 2014, its leaders chose Sohel Mahfuz for his expertise in bomb-making and knowledge about arms smuggling routes and smugglers in bordering areas.

July 9, 2017
July 9, 2017

Gulshan Café Attack: ‘Bomb supplier’ finally held

Sohel Mahfuz, known as an explosives expert and the bomb supplier for last year's Gulshan café attack, was arrested along with three accomplices in the bordering Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj early yesterday.

July 6, 2017
July 6, 2017

I am happy today

Your radiance remains undimmed despite your physical absence. It remains in everyone who had the opportunity to know you, to befriend you, to love you. I am happy today, Ishrat Akhond. Happy to have had you as a friend and learn that happiness is a choice.

July 6, 2017
July 6, 2017

Gulshan Attack: Families of 20 victims to get compensation

Each family of 20 foreign and Bangladeshi nationals who were killed in the Holey Artisan cafe terror attack in the capital's Gulshan on

July 3, 2017
July 3, 2017

Recounting 'Operation Thunderbolt'

When the terror attack was unfolding at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on the night of July 1 last year, Lt Col MM Imrul Hasan, a commando, was watching a movie with his family at a resort in Habiganj, some 180km from the capital.

July 2, 2017
July 2, 2017

Minister thanks foreign friends for support after café attack

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday expressed Bangladesh's gratitude towards individuals, foreign countries and governments for standing by Bangladesh during its "difficult one year" since the July 1 Gulshan café attack.

July 2, 2017
July 2, 2017

A mother's quest for justice, answers

As people were paying tributes to those killed in last year's terrorist attack at Holey Artisan Bakery yesterday, Masuda Begum kept crying outside where the posh restaurant used to be and where her son Shaon, 19, was working on that fateful night.

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