BNP yesterday alleged that the ruling Awami League was giving various conditions as it was not willing to forge a national unity to deal with the growing threats of militancy and terrorism.

His family affectionately called him Chhotu, which means the younger one. And it is never easy for a family to bury the young one.

Foreign countries and their envoys in Dhaka, international organisations, and cross section yesterday and on Sunday stoutly protested the barbaric militant attack on a café in the capital's Gulshan on Friday night.

Indeed, we need counter terrorism cells for surgical interventions. We also need a system of 'reverse brainwash.' The first step is to break the isolation trap; family and social network need to be the source of positive energy.

Condemning Friday's Gulshan attack as heinous, the Asian Human Rights Commission yesterday said the terrorist strike was a result of the failed institution.

Japan and Italy have agreed to coordinate diplomatic and intelligence activities in the aftermath of Friday's militant attack in Dhaka.

Following the Friday’s terrorist attack, different foreign diplomatic missions and UN organisations advises their diplomats, officials and nations living in Dhaka not go to public locations frequently.

As the nation is still in frenzy to identify all the killers of the Dhaka café attack, for Meer Saameh Mubashher’s family, the scenario is quite different. For his father, this is nothing but a nightmare.

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

The body of Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain, who was brutally killed along with 19 other hostages in a militant attack at a Dhaka café last Friday, was taken to his grandfather’s house at Gulshan this afternoon.

Japan to reinforce cooperation with the international community to ensure incidents such as Friday’s Dhaka cafe attack never occurs again.

In view of the Gulshan cafe attack, police now seeks help of citizens to report people with suspicious activity on the social networking platforms.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays homage to the victims of the Gulshan attack at the Army Stadium in Banani of Dhaka.

Five of the 27 people who were either rescued or detained from the Gulshan restaurant following Friday's attack were still in police custody last night. Law enforcers were verifying whether they had any links with the attackers.

Although some Bangladeshi politicians till the recent past – the home minister repeated his position on July 3 2016 that the Holey Artisan Bakery massacre has no ISIS link...

In the aftermath of Gulshan café siege, photos of suspected attackers surfaced in public domain, prompting social media users and journalists to search for their identities and look into family and educational backgrounds. There have been some findings but a lot more is yet to be unearthed.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday said the five militants whose identities were made public after the Gulshan attack, have links with the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Bangladesh needs to have a national unity shunning the blame game to fight back and combat violent extremism, said a renowned global analyst.

The police headquarters yesterday issued a statement, strongly reviling the heinous terrorist attack on the Holey Artisan Café in the capital's Gulshan area.

The pain is unbearable for Komakichi Okamura who lost his 32-year-old son Makoto Okamura to Friday's savage attacks on a restaurant in the capital.