Report in The News, Apr 27, 2017 LAHORE: An article published in China.org.cn says the latest verdict by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case has created more confusion than resolving anything.(http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2017-04/25/content_40686473.htm) The judgment came at a crucial juncture when the country was slowly recovering from the senseless violence by militants and its economy was showing signs of health, it added. The article says Pakistan is just recovering from more than a decade of…
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by Minnie Chan & Choi Chi-yuk in South China Morning Post, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:36pm Xia Baolong, a well-known hardliner and close aide to Chinese President Xi Jinping, has been replaced as Zhejiang Communist Party chief ahead of a major power reshuffle due in autumn. Xia had stepped down from the province’s top job and was succeeded by Che Jun, a low-key political rising star, state-run Xinhua reported on Wednesday. A Zhejiang source told…
AFP report in South China Morning Post, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:09pm A Chinese court has sentenced an American woman to 3½ years in prison and deportation on espionage charges, a US-based rights group said Wednesday, although details about her fate remain unclear. Sandy Phan-Gillis was detained in March 2015 at the Macau border after visiting mainland China with a trade delegation from the Texas oil capital Houston. She was accused of espionage and stealing…
Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested an improvised explosive device (IED) expert of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the capital’s Uttara early yesterday. Mushfiqur Rahman Jeni, 28, belonged to JMB’s “Sarwar-Tamim Group” and was working on producing remote-controlled IEDs, said Jahangir Hossain Matubbar, commanding officer of Rab-10, at a press briefing at Rab media centre in Karwan Bazar. Son of a late civil engineer of Comilla’s Burichang, Mushfiqur got admitted to computer science and…
by Md Anwar Hossain Choudhury & Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune online, April 27, 2017 Law enforcers cordoned off a suspected militant hideout in Shibnagar village under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday 9:10am (Thursday): Fresh gunshots heard as Operation Eagle Hunt resumes, reports our correspondent Md Anwar Hossain Choudhury from the spot. Key points from the press briefing on Wednesday: April 26, 2017 -Deputy Commissioner Proloy Kumar Joarder says that Operation Eagle…
by Asif Showkat Kallol in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:43 PM The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase has approved the import of electricity from the 1600MW power plant being set up by Adani Group in Jharkhand, India, at prices higher than the norm. The proposal was approved at a meeting of the Cabinet committee on Wednesday, presided over by Alternative Chairman Tofail Ahmed at the Cabinet Division. After the meeting, Cabinet Division Additional…
AFP report DHAKA: Bangladesh has approved a project to build hundreds of mosques with almost $1 billion from Saudi Arabia, an official said on Wednesday, worrying minorities who fear they could be used to spread fundamentalist Islam. The government plans to construct 560 mosques — one in every town in Bangladesh — as the secular administration woos Islamist groups before elections. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sought the funds from Saudi Arabia, which will provide the…
report in Prothom Alo, Apr 26, 2017 at 17:06 hrs BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir suggested that the government approach the United Nations to realise Bangladesh’s share of river Teesta’s water from India. He raised the proposal at the launch of a book on Ziaur Rahman organised by the Ziaur Rahman Research Council at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity auditorium on Wednesday. Mirza Fakhrul said the government could not be thanks as it failed…