Posts published in “Day: July 3, 2017”

Arising in extreme brutality, neo JMB still poses as a threat to public safety. While several of its top leaders have been killed in operations of the law enforcement agencies, the organisation is trying to get back on its feet with new leadership. Its present leader is Kamrul alias Asad, who may have other aliases too. Neo JMB reportedly had even been planning a large scale attack this Ramadan. Certain officials of the law enforcement…

Report in The Daily Star, July 3, 2017 Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque believes militants will not be able to carry out attacks as their strength has been reduced through continued police operations since the Holey Artisan attack. He admitted that militancy wasn’t uprooted altogether, and stressed that its network was destroyed. Most of the senior militant leaders were either killed or captured in police raids, he said talking to reporters at…

Report in The Daily Star, July 03, 2017 Green activists yesterday reiterated that the government should backtrack on the proposed Rampal power plant to be built in the vicinity of the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, with a session of Unesco World Heritage Committee ongoing over the listing of “heritage sites in danger”. The United Nations and the International Union for Conservation of Nature have already warned the government not to build the plant,…