By Kerry Brown in South China Morning Post, Oct 29, 2017 The writer is director of the Lau China Institute, King’s College, London Perhaps it was deliberately to reassure the outside world. In the elite enclave of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 18, while Xi Jinping as General Secretary was giving his epic report, his predecessor but one Jiang Zemin was gazing at his wrist watch, slumbering, sporadically yawning, and,…
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by Sumon Mahmud in bdnews24.com, Oct 28, 2017 at 20.12hrs BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade has been attacked in Feni. The former prime minister left Dhaka Saturday morning for Cox’s Bazar to visit the Rohingyas, who faced persecution in their homeland in Rakhine and fled to Bangladesh in the past one month. She is scheduled to stay overnight in Chittagong and start for the coastal district in the morning. Several cars of the motorcade came…
report in bdnews24.com, Oct 29, 2017 at 10.38am RAB has arrested three suspected militants in a raid in Chapainawabganj. The three were taken into custody early on Sunday in the Sadar Upazila’s Bablabona area, said Chapainawabganj RAB-5 Commander Squadron Leader Sayeed Abdullah Al Murad. “The detainees are members of the JMB Sarwar-Tamim group.” Weapons and explosives were seized from the suspects during the raid, he said. More details on the suspects will be available later,…
report in the Daily Star, Oct 29, 2018 Dinajpur: “Neo-JMB” operative Mohaddes Ali alias Dorji Bijoy, who was arrested on October 19 in Bogra, was involved in the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi. He was also involved in the killings of Khadem Rahmat Ali of Kaunia upazila in Rangpur, and Dr Deepti of Gaibandha district. Khandakar Golam Faruk, deputy inspector general (DIG) of police of Rangpur Range, told a press conference at his office…