report in Global Times Published: 2017/5/7 15:03:39 The Chinese military is developing smartphone surveillance software that automatically alerts authorities if a soldier leaks sensitive information or uses their handset devices during blackout times. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily reported on Sunday that the PLA Rocket Force introduced the mobile phone security platform to better regulate smart phone use in the military. The newspaper said the software can be installed or uninstalled remotely, ban access…
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By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in Daily Star, May 8, 2017 The BNP could curtail the power of the prime minister and strengthen the roles of lawmakers in parliament if voted to power in the next general election, party insiders claimed. The party thinks that the prime minister’s executive authority has given rise to a “form of autocratic practices within the democratic system”, and, hence, the premier’s power should be curtailed. If the BNP wins, it…
report in Daily Star, May 8, 2017 Dhaka: Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad yesterday came up with the country’s biggest-ever electoral alliance, comprised of 58 political parties, counting mainly on name-only Islamist parties. Titled United National Alliance, the coalition has only two parties registered with the Election Commission — Jatiya Party and Bangladesh Islami Front. While announcing the formation of the alliance through a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club, Ershad said their goal…
A police officer “narrowly escaped” from a suicide attacker at a “Neo JMB” hideout in Jhenidah’s Maheshpur upazila, as two suspected militants were killed and two policemen wounded during an operation there yesterday. “As I entered a room of the one-storey house where militants were holed up, one of them grabbed me. Soon I realised that a bomb was attached to his body,” Ahmed Kabir, officer-in-charge of Maheshpur Police Station, told The Daily Star. The…
report in Dhaka Tribune, May 08, 2017 A suspected militant and his associate, who supplied Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) to Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), have been detained from Ashulia, on the outskirt of Dhaka, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) says. The detainees are Imran and Rafiq. “They were detained during a drive in Ashulia on Sunday night,” RAB spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan told the Dhaka Tribune Monday morning. “A huge stockpile of IEDs and explosives…