Report in The Daily Star, Oct 29, 2017 A Dhaka court today sentenced 11 Freedom Party members to 20 years’ imprisonment for their attempt to kill present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 1989. The court also awarded life-term imprisonment to the accused for blasting bombs, on the same day, targeting Hasina’s Dhanmondi No 32 residence. Judge Md Zahidul Kabir of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka delivered the verdicts in presence…
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By Jackson Diehlin The Washington Post, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:04 PM The writer is deputy editorial page editor of The Post. While the Trump White House wallowed in its usual trifling controversies, China’s Communist leadership this month staged what will be remembered as the most important political event of the year, and maybe of the century so far. As the party Congress concluded last week, Xi Jinping was confirmed as most powerful leader in…
By Chun Han Wong and Eva Dou in The Wall St Journal, Oct 30, 2017 SHANGHAI—The 300 or so Communist Party members who work at Walt Disney Co.’s theme park in China don’t keep their politics to themselves. Many attend party lectures during business hours and display hammer-and-sickle insignia at their desks. Company newsletters and state media praise them as exemplary workers. Party officials help manage staff welfare and arrange activities such as political seminars…
Report in Prothom Alo, Oct 29, 2017 at 18:23 hrs Obaidul QuaderRuling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia staged the attack in her own area and is laying the blame on the government. Replying to questions of newsmen at his secretariat office Sunday, Obaidul Quader, who is also the road transport and bridges minister, said, “BNP is fighting among themselves and blaming the government. The attack on Khaleda…