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The Bangladesh Bank robbery, also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, [1] was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh ...
Avijit Roy ( Bengali: অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) [6] was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer, and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet blogging community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists, and humanists. [7]
Gallery: Picture, Sound, Video. v. t. e. The Padma Bridge graft scandal was a political scandal in Bangladesh in 2016 and 2017, involving the Bangladesh Awami League and the Padma Bridge, a 6.15-kilometer (3.82 mi) road—rail bridge across the Padma River and Bangladesh's largest bridge. The World Bank were to have financed the project with ...
David Bergman (born c. 1965) [1] [2] is a British investigative journalist. [3] Bergman has worked for Bangladeshi and British newspapers. He first became known in Bangladesh for his reporting on war crimes committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. An investigative documentary on the subject he worked as a reporter and researcher for ...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ) people in Bangladesh face widespread social and legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ people. [7] [8] Homosexuality is illegal under Bangladeshi law, which is inherited from the colonial British Indian government 's Section 377 of 1860. [9] [10] According to the law, the punishment ...
On 31 March 2018, he started studying in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). [citation needed]. Death. At the time of his death Fahad was a second-year (Term 1) student of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He was killed in room number 2011 in Sher-e Bangla Hall.
NTV ( Bengali: এনটিভি ), an acronym of less commonly used National Television, [2] is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel based in the BSEC Building in Karwan Bazar, Dhaka. It was launched on 2 July 2003, and is one of Bangladesh's most popular television channels. NTV is owned by International ...
e. On the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20 local time, [2] five militants took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery [3] in Gulshan Thana. [4] The assailants entered the bakery with crude bombs, machetes, pistols, and took several dozen hostages (foreigners and locals). In the immediate response, while Dhaka Metropolitan Police ...