by Stephen Chen in South China Morning Post, Oct 31, 2017 High-altitude spy drones could help China dominate “near space” – a region of the Earth’s atmosphere that is at the heart of a modern-day space race. Near space, which begins at about 20km above sea level, has until now been regarded a “death zone” for drones – thin air at this altitude makes it hard to generate lift, while extremely low temperatures mean electronic…
Posts published in October 2017
by Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:18 PM Khaleda at present faces 36 cases and police have submitted charges in a total of 17 cases. With the 11th national general elections only a year away, whether Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) – which boycotted the last national elections – will participate in the elections is on everyone’s minds. That participation hinges heavily on whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will eventually be allowed…
Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested a suspected “Neo JMB” militant, who was charge-sheeted in a case filed over the 2015 attacks on two mosques inside Bangladesh Navy’s Issa Khan Base in Chittagong. Bablu Rahman, 23, was taken to the port city hours after his arrest in Arappur Bus Stand area of Jhenidah town. Later, the investigation officer of the case appealed to a Chittagong court to show the accused arrested in the case over the…
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…
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…
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,…
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…