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report in Dhaka Tribune, April 07, 2018 at 07:20 PM Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Director Abdullah-Al-Harun has said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seems to be in good health but her condition can be better assessed upon receipt of her medical reports. “Khaleda Zia’s physical condition is apparently good, but a better assessment of her health can be made after her x-ray report is released,” he told a press briefing at the BSMMU on…

by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The daily star, Apr 7, 2018 The ruling Awami League is facing two crucial problems in picking mayoral candidates in Khulna and Gazipur city polls, slated for May 15. In Khulna, the party is struggling to find a “popular and acceptable” candidate for voters. But in Gazipur, the AL is finding it difficult to choose its nominee as both the nomination frontrunners are “popular and influential” leaders, party insiders said.…

AFP report in The Nation, April 07, 2018 DHAKA – Bangladesh has launched a billion-dollar campaign to build hundreds of “model mosques”, partly with Saudi funding, to try to counter radical Islam in the Muslim-majority country, officials said Friday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who inaugurated work on nine mosques through a video conference on Thursday, is also trying to bolster links with Muslim groups in an election year, according to analysts. A senior official said…

by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The daily star, Apr 7, 2018 The BNP is likely to give the party ticket to the two current mayors of the Gazipur and Khulna city corporations for contesting the upcoming polls, considering their proven loyalty to the party. The party, however, is also keeping other options open. Gazipur city Mayor MA Mannan will get the party blessings if he remains physically fit, while Khulna city Mayor Moniruzzaman Moni is…

by Senior Correspondent on bdnews24.com, Apr 6, 2018 Police have arrested a woman who they say is the chief of the women’s wing of Neo-JMB, the group blamed for the deadly Gulshan cafe attack. They say ‘Homaira’ alias ‘Nabila’ is known as the ‘Bat Woman’ in Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB’s revived chapter. The Counterterrorism and Transnational Crimes or CTTC unit of the police arrested her in the capital’s Siddeshwari on Wednesday night, Deputy Commissioner…

report in Dhaka Tribune, April 03, 2018 The number of medicines now incarcerated Khaleda Zia takes has been increased following her latest bout of illness, said the head of the medical team that examined her health condition. The BNP chairperson is currently serving a five-year sentence at the former Dhaka central jail after being convicted in a corruption case in February. After she fell sick last Thursday, the government had formed a four-member medical team…

by Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, April 02, 2018 Child abuse has increased alarmingly across the country, causing grave concern among rights activists. Last year, 22 children were murdered after rape. However, 25 such incidents were found in just the first quarter of this year, according to a latest report of Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), an organization working to protect and promote child rights. The report, unveiled on Sunday, was prepared based on…

report in Dhaka Tribune, March 31, 2018 at 10:45 PM Jatiya Party Presidium Member and State Minister for Rural Development and Cooperatives Md Mashiur Rahman Ranga said the party might leave the cabinet at any moment. The minister said this at a program celebrating the golden jubilee of Silonia Union High School in the Senbag upazila of Noakhali. “JaPa will run in the next elections as an unaffiliated party with candidates for 300 constituencies,” he…

report on bdnews24.com, Mar 31, 2018 at 23.49hrs A United States court has sentenced a man, who received money from a UK-Bangladeshi firm run by a planner of the Islamic State terror group, to 20 years in jail. Mohamed Elshinawy, 33, from Edgewood of Maryland, had pleaded guilty in August last year to receiving money from the terror group in the summer of 2015. Judge Ellen Hollander of the federal court said on Friday that…

report in The Dhaka Star, Apr 1, 2018 Nearly two lakh Rohingyas are facing a grave risk of landslide at their makeshift camps in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar. All those camps could also be ravaged if there is a nor’wester or cyclone. Initially when the Rohingyas crossed over into Bangladesh fleeing a brutal military operation in Rakhine State of Myanmar, the administration and the locals received them on humanitarian grounds. They have settled on forestland…