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by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, January 09, 2018 Some of the Rohingyas who were given shelter in Cox’s Bazar have left the camps, evading checkposts, and have started working illegally in different places across Bangladesh. According to the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, as of January 1, some 672,700 Rohingyas entered Bangladesh fleeing the violence which erupted in Myanmar on August 25 last year. The government of Bangladesh gave shelter to the members of…

report in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 8, 2018 The High Court has granted anticipatory bail to Daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman in 10 separate cases – all of them filed on sedition and defamation charges. The bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman on Sunday issued the orders of bail in presence of Mahmudur. Afterwards, his lawyer barrister Tanvir Ahmed Al Amin told reporters that the cases…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to sit in a meeting with top leaders of her party-led 20-party alliance on Monday night to discuss Bangladesh’s latest political situation and work out its next course of action. “The meeting of the 20-party alliance will be held at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office around 8:30pm,” Khaleda’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB on Sunday. Wishing anonymity, a BNP leader close to Khaleda said the 20-party leaders…

Textbooks this year have undergone eye-catching changes. However, the reasons for the changes have not been made clear by the textbook board or the academics who revised the books. The major overhaul was the result of pressure from Islamist groups – this was the general view of participants at the Boithoki roundtable held at its office in Dhaka on January 4. The roundtable, titled “Amader Patthoboi” and moderated by journalist Munni Saha, was telecast live…

report in Prothom Alo, Jan 05, 2018 Fifteen people, including four members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and two policemen, were injured in a clash between locals and law enforcers over the arrest of a local UP member in Ramgati upazila of Lakshmipur on Thursday afternoon, reports UNB. Officer-in-charge of Ramgati police station M Iqbal Hossain said four plainclothes RAB men went to the house of Farid Uddin, a member of Boyarchar union parishad, around…

by Md Sanaul Islam Tipu in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:57 PM The Zia Orphanage Trust graft case was brought against Khaleda Zia using fake documents prepared by a corrupt investigation officer (IO), a lawyer for the BNP chairperson claimed on Wednesday. During the sixth day of defence arguments on Wednesday, Advocate AJ Mohammad Ali alleged that the IO of the case, Harun-Ur-Rashid, prepared forged documents to sway the case in the prosecution’s…

report in Prothom Alo, Jan 2, 2018 at 21:48 hrs BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia speaks at a discussion meeting organised by JCD marking its 39th founding anniversary, at capital’s Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh on Tuesday. Photo: Collected/Prothom AloThe Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday said her party would join the next election if it is held under a party-neutral government after dissolution of parliament. “The BNP is an election-oriented political party. We’ll…

report in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 2, 2018 Two suspected militants of the banned militant outfit Jama’at ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) have been arrested from East Madarbari area in Chittagong. Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) arrested them with 10 grenades on Monday night. The arrestees are Asfaqur Rahman alias Rasel, 22, of Mymensingh, and Rakibul Hasan Jony alias Salahuddin, 19, of Comilla. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Detective Branch (DB) of Police A…

by Rabiul Islam in Prothom Alo, Jan 01, 2018 As much as 75 people – from researcher to businessman, from diplomat to poet, from banker to physician, from politician to journalist and from service holder to motor mechanic – were made to disappear in 11 months of 2017. Many such incidents, if not all, grabbed headlines throughout the year at home and abroad, making it a year of disappearance. Almost all the victims and their…

By Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 31, 2017 at 11:52 PM The eleventh parliamentary election is just around the corner and BNP has taken several initiatives to keep the party men motivated and active. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has already launched political activities targeting the polls, beginning with a Cox’s Bazar tour in October to help the Rohingya refugee. BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed had stated previously that all party programmes now aim…