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Posts published in “Day: March 29, 2017

Xinjiang bares 11 cases of extremist, separatist content

Report in Global Times, Mar 28, 2017 at 15:03 Public security officials in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region released information on 11 new cases involving suspects who spread extremist, separatist and other illegal content online, as efforts to clean up cyberspace in the region continue. The regional public security bureau arrested 12 people between January and March, Xinjiang’s cyberspace administration office announced via its WeChat account on Monday. The suspects allegedly spread information on…

Militants in Sylhet hideout ‘highly equipped, trained’: The daily Star, Mar 29, 2017

By Shaheen Mollah and Mohammad Jamil Khan The militants at Atia Mahal were expert bomb makers and the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) found in the Sylhet den were all homemade, investigators have said. The detonators of the IEDs were assembled in various militant hideouts in Sitakunda of Chittagong and then brought to the Sylhet den. And the nitrate gel used as explosive was smuggled into the country through Chapainawabganj border from a neighbouring country where…

Musa likely among dead militants : report in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 29, 2017

By Kamrul Hasan & Tarek Mahmud The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of police suspects that one of the four militants killed during the joint operation of security forces in Sylhet’s Shibbari could be Mainul Islam Musa, the alleged chief coordinator of New JMB. CTTC investigators told reporters on Tuesday that a photo of one of the dead militants bore strong resemblance to Musa. On Monday, Bangladesh Army recovered two of the four bodies from…

Idols desecrated at two temples in Sirajganj

By Aminul Islam Khan Rana in Dhaka tribune, March 28, 2017 at 9.28pm Sirajganj: Vandals desecrated three idols of Hindu goddesses at two temples in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj overnight on Monday. The unidentified miscreants decapitated the idol at Baroari Kali Temple and vandalised a Kali idol and a Sarashwati idol at the Kalipada Sarker family temple in Khidra Joknala village of Bhangabari union of the upazila. A team of police have already visited the…