Cesare Tavella
Tavella murder trial to proceed
The High Court clears the way for the lower court concerned to continue the trial proceedings of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder case.
Attacks on 3 Foreigners / Charge sheets this week
Police are set to submit within a week charge sheets in last year's murders of two foreigners -- Italian national Cesare Tavella and
Tavella killing: Matin on 5-day remand
A Dhaka court places MA Matin on a five-day remand in connection with the killing of the Italian national Cesare Tavella.
Couple injured in Uttara ‘robbery’
A Taiwan couple is injured by suspected robbers at their Uttara residence in Dhaka.
Tavella killing: Matin on 8-day remand
A Dhaka court places MA Matin on an eight-day remand in connection with the killing of Italian national Cesare Tavella. Matin is younger brother of MA Quayum, Dhaka city BNP joint convener and a former BNP-backed ward commissioner.
KNOT SO TRUE / An Uncomfortable Centre Stage
We cannot and will not shy away just because some boro bhai (elder borther) somewhere thought killing an innocent Italian national would set Bangladesh off its course.
Editorial / Headway in the Tavella case
After weeks of little visible progress in the investigation of the murder of Cesare Tavella, an Italian national, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has caught four suspects involved in the killing and recovered a motorcycle that was apparently used by the murderers to escape.
Tavella killing: 'Target was any white man'
Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder suspects confess to being hired for killing “a white man” to create anarchy in the country, according to chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Foreign missions’ red alerts excesses: Muhith
Finance Minister AMA Muhith describes the alerts issued by different diplomatic missions in Dhaka after the murder of the two foreign nationals as excesses.
‘Highest alert’ on Benapole border
The authorities issue what they term ‘highest alert’ on the Benapole border to stop killers of two foreigners from escaping the country.
US working with Bangladesh to verify ‘IS claims’: Envoy
US Ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says her country is working with the Bangladesh government to verify the alleged IS claims of killing two foreign nationals in Bangladesh last week.
BNP blames lack of good governance for foreigner murders
The governments’ lack of good governance is to be blamed for the recent murders of the two foreign nationalities, a BNP spokesperson says.
Probe to find link between foreigners’ murder: Kamal
Law enforcers work to find whether there is any link between the killings of two foreigners in the span of five days, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says.
Japanese citizen shot dead in Rangpur days into Italian killing
Five days into the killing of an Italian citizen in Dhaka, a Japanese national is gunned down in northern district of Rangpur. Five persons detained for interrogation.
New kind of violence undid BCB plans
Ultimately it was the killing of an Italian national in Dhaka by unknown perpetrators that is believed, within the BCB, to have led to Australia calling off their tour of Bangladesh.
DMP forms team to assist Tavella murder probe
Dhaka Metropolitan Police forms an 11-memebr police team to assist the investigation officer of Italian national killing case.
Italian killing not IS job: Kamal
Ruling out the existence of militant outfit Islamic State in the country, Home Minister Kamal says both Bangladesh and Italy primarily agree that the militant outfit was not involved with killing of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella.
Govt trying to shift blame of foreign national murder: Fakhrul
BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims the government is trying to shift the blame for the murder of Italian national Cesare Tavella in Dhaka to others.
Foreign missions’ alert surprises PM
There is no justification of alert, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says expressing her surprise as some diplomatic missions in Dhaka issued the alert for their nationals following the murder of an Italian citizen in Dhaka.