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…
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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…
Report in The News, Apr 26, 2017 MUZAFFARABAD: Pandemonium was witnessed between the treasury and opposition members of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly when the opposition members tore up copies of agenda carrying a resolution in favour of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and walked out shouting ‘go Nawaz go’. Treasury members equated with blasphemy the tearing up of agenda, saying that it carried a resolution for finality of the Holy Prophet (SAW).…
Report in The Express Tribune, April 25, 2017 News Desk: China has released a list of banned Islamic names in the western region of Xinjiang as part of the ongoing crackdown against religion, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. The Muslim couples in the country will now have to choose names for their children wisely or else they won’t get registered as a household in China. The list includes names such as Islam, Quran, Saddam, Makkah,…
By Keith Bradsher in The NY Times, Apr 25, 2017 SHANGHAI — In China, it’s all about whom you owe. That precise question — who owes what to whom? — shook the Chinese industrial town of Zouping in recent weeks. Some businesses closed. City officials engineered a desperate corporate takeover. An executive was detained by the police. The problem: Local companies had agreed to guarantee hundreds of millions of dollars of one another’s loans. When…
A large number of senior people who gathered outside the National Stadium in Beijing have fallen prey to scammers who had promised them a chance of “receiving 50,000 yuan ($7,260) after paying 10 yuan,” with some victims claiming they had lost 6,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan in such scams. More police and patrol cars have been dispatched to the spot, also known as the Bird’s Nest. Meanwhile, police could be seen everywhere near the stadium,…
by Kamrul Hasan in Dhaka Tribune, April 26, 2017 Bangladeshi citizens living or working abroad are actively involved in a number of abduction rackets that target other Bangladeshi migrants, according to police. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has received several abduction and ransom complaints from the families of the victims in the past few months, said Molla Nazrul Islam, special superintendent (organised crime) at the CID. “In the last five or six months,…
Report in The daily star, Apr 26, 2017 Rajshahi: A large team of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police conducted a block raid on some 350 houses in the city’s Haragram Purbopara yesterday on suspicion of militant activities. The raid ended around 7:00pm without any arrests being made and explosives seized. Ifte Khayer Alam, assistant commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP), said the raid was part of their regular anti-militancy drives in the city. Law enforcers looked through…
Reuters report in Prothom Alo, Apr 26, 2017 Dhaka : China offered on Tuesday to help tackle a diplomatic row between Bangladesh and Myanmar over the flight of minority Rohingyas, two Bangladesh foreign ministry officials said. Around 69,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar since October, straining relations between the two neighbours who each see the stateless Muslim minority as the other nation’s problem. Chinese special envoy Sun Guoxiang, beginning…