Bangladesh Criminals

The BSF personnel were forced to open fire in self-defence after being attacked by two groups of criminals, the force said.

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday cautioned that their stance against Bangladesh criminals should not be mistaken as a weakness and that intrusion from Bangladesh will be dealt with a firm hand.

Five hardline Islamists were sentenced to death today by a special Bangladeshi tribunal for committing crimes against humanity and siding with the Pakistani troops in carrying out the genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.

India turned back British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile from the Delhi airport soon after the top British lawyer's flight landed from London on Wednesday.

The unabated smuggling of fake Indian currency notes and attacks on BSF personnel by cross-border criminals are some of the issues that will be discussed at a high-level meeting of the chiefs of India and Bangladesh's frontier forces in Dhaka next week.

Bangladesh minister Obaidul Quader today accused Pakistan of hatching a conspiracy with Rohingya terror groups and criticised it for supporting the war criminals of his country's Liberation War.

The Bangladeshi ISIS sympathiser who detonated a homemade pipe bomb in New York City's subway had no criminal record back home, a police official said today, even as Dhaka vowed "zero tolerance" against terrorism.

The Bangladesh High Court today upheld the death sentence of 139 and the life imprisonment of 146 convicted soldiers involved in a 2009 mutiny and their role in the massacre of 74 people, including 57 Army officers, in the country's biggest-ever criminal case.

A seven-member team of the US security agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI, is set to interrogate ISIS and JMB terrorist Mohammed Musiruddin alias Musa, NIA officials said today.

The recent heists were run from central, remote command centres, enabling criminals to target large numbers of machines in "smash and grab" operations.

Police in Bangladesh said today that they have arrested more than 5,000 criminal suspects in the past few days as they continue a nationwide crackdown to try and stop a growing wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.

Authorities have rounded up about 1,600 suspected petty criminals, including some believed to be ISIS radicals, in a nationwide crackdown aimed at halting a wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists in Bangladesh.

International financial messaging service SWIFT told clients on Friday to share information on attacks on the system to help prevent hackings, after criminals used SWIFT messages to steal $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank.

The unprecedented heist of $81 million from the U.S. account of Bangladesh's central bank is the latest among increasingly large thefts by criminals who have leveraged the speed and anonymity of hacking to revolutionise burgling banks.

An FBI official in Dhaka met with representatives from Bangladesh's Criminal Investigation Department and offered to assist with the investigation into the spectacular cross-country theft.

The BSF personnel were forced to open fire in self-defence after being attacked by two groups of criminals, the force said.

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday cautioned that their stance against Bangladesh criminals should not be mistaken as a weakness and that intrusion from Bangladesh will be dealt with a firm hand.

Five hardline Islamists were sentenced to death today by a special Bangladeshi tribunal for committing crimes against humanity and siding with the Pakistani troops in carrying out the genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.

India turned back British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile from the Delhi airport soon after the top British lawyer's flight landed from London on Wednesday.

The unabated smuggling of fake Indian currency notes and attacks on BSF personnel by cross-border criminals are some of the issues that will be discussed at a high-level meeting of the chiefs of India and Bangladesh's frontier forces in Dhaka next week.

Bangladesh minister Obaidul Quader today accused Pakistan of hatching a conspiracy with Rohingya terror groups and criticised it for supporting the war criminals of his country's Liberation War.

The Bangladeshi ISIS sympathiser who detonated a homemade pipe bomb in New York City's subway had no criminal record back home, a police official said today, even as Dhaka vowed "zero tolerance" against terrorism.

The Bangladesh High Court today upheld the death sentence of 139 and the life imprisonment of 146 convicted soldiers involved in a 2009 mutiny and their role in the massacre of 74 people, including 57 Army officers, in the country's biggest-ever criminal case.

A seven-member team of the US security agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI, is set to interrogate ISIS and JMB terrorist Mohammed Musiruddin alias Musa, NIA officials said today.

The recent heists were run from central, remote command centres, enabling criminals to target large numbers of machines in "smash and grab" operations.

Police in Bangladesh said today that they have arrested more than 5,000 criminal suspects in the past few days as they continue a nationwide crackdown to try and stop a growing wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.

Authorities have rounded up about 1,600 suspected petty criminals, including some believed to be ISIS radicals, in a nationwide crackdown aimed at halting a wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists in Bangladesh.

International financial messaging service SWIFT told clients on Friday to share information on attacks on the system to help prevent hackings, after criminals used SWIFT messages to steal $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank.

The unprecedented heist of $81 million from the U.S. account of Bangladesh's central bank is the latest among increasingly large thefts by criminals who have leveraged the speed and anonymity of hacking to revolutionise burgling banks.

An FBI official in Dhaka met with representatives from Bangladesh's Criminal Investigation Department and offered to assist with the investigation into the spectacular cross-country theft.