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Posts published in “Day: November 9, 2017

China’s New Effort to Tame Its Financial System May Disappoint

By KEITH BRADSHER in The NY Times online, Nov 8, 2017 BEIJING — China on Wednesday released fresh details about a new financial regulatory body intended to calm a financial system that in recent years has endured a stock market crash, a huge exodus of money outside the country and the rapid accumulation of debt. But the details may raise more questions than they answer, and could disappoint those looking for a strong hand to…

B’desh: Now university teacher ‘missing’: Report in The Daily Star, Nov 9, 2017

A North South University teacher has gone missing from the capital on Tuesday afternoon. Mubashar Hasan, assistant professor at the political science department, came out of the university around 4:30pm. Police said he last talked to someone on his mobile phone at 6:41pm when he had been near Lions Eye Hospital at Agargaon. His disappearance, the latest in a series of such incidents in the country, has alarmed many people while his family members, colleagues…

Biman co-pilot confesses to 9/11 style plot to attack PM Hasina’s residence

by Md Sanaul Islam Tipu in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 9, 2017 Suspended Biman Bangladesh Airlines Co-pilot Sabbir Ahmed, alias Amam Sabbir, has confessed to his involvement in a plot to attack the residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with an aeroplane. Sabbir gave his confessional statement to Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sarafuzzaman Ansari in the latter’s chambers, after the accused was produced before him by Sub-inspector Md Amirul Islam of Rapid Action Battalion 4, also…