Expressing serious concern over the systematic attacks and gradual escalation of terrorism and violent extremism, foreign diplomats in Dhaka stress the need for more effective security steps.

Expressing his shock at Friday's militant attack at a Gulshan cafe, Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus condoles family members of the 22 people brutally killed by the militants.

Police detain the father and a brother of Shafiqul Islam Uzzal, one of the five militants who took part in the Gulshan restaurant attack on Friday, from their house in Dhunat upazila of Bogra.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says the Gulshan cafe attackers were members of different banned and local militant outfits.

Emory University says they will hold a vigil to remember two students killed when a group of armed extremists stormed a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

"Don't call her a martyr, she wanted to live," said Tulika Jain, mother of Tarishi who was killed in the Dhaka terror attack.

Pakistan's Foreign Office on Monday denied that Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) was behind the Dhaka carnage and described the allegations as “baseless and unfounded”.

The unprecedented Gulshan café attack that claimed lives of 20 hostages, most of them foreigners, seems to have compelled Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to refrain from accusing each other of patronising terrorists and carrying out attacks by their party men.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam will brief journalists at 5:00pm.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Italy Mario Giro has returned to his country with the bodies of nine Italians killed in The Holey Artisan attack on Friday

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali expresses his hope that the international community will support Bangladesh in fighting common challenges of terrorism and violent extremism.

Bodies of the seven Japanese nationals who were killed in a militant attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Bangladesh capital Dhaka return to home soil Tuesday morning.

We are celebrating Eid this year in the backdrop of a tragedy that has shaken the nation, a time our most happy festival comes on the

A cross-section of people yesterday paid tributes at a makeshift memorial near the Holey Artisan Bakery at Gulshan, mourning the victims of Friday's hostage crisis.

Faraaz refused to leave his friends to die and by doing so showed us that there is still hope left in this country.

One of the five Gulshan attackers whose identity had remained unknown was identified by Dhunat police in Bogra yesterday.

The morning sky was cloudy after the overnight downpour as if to tell humanity to cry for the souls of those killed in the unprecedented terror attack that has numbed the nation.

Acongregation of mourners at Army Stadium in Dhaka yesterday, with victim families receiving bodies, foreign diplomats paying tributes

Japan and Italy have assured Bangladesh that they would continue providing all sorts of cooperation to the South Asian country, regardless of any potential threat of terror attack on foreigners.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, yesterday said resisting brainwashing of youths through false misinterpretation of religion is important than any other tasks now in the country.