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report in Prothom Alo, Dec 22, 2017 University teacher Mubashar Hasan Caesar, who went ‘missing’ one and half months ago, returned home in Dakkhin Banasree area of the capital city in the early hours of Friday. Mubashar’s sister Tamanna confirmed this to Prothom Alo on Friday morning. Mubashar, an assistant professor of North South University’s political science and sociology department, went missing on 7 November this year after he attended a meeting of the government’s…

Report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 21, 2017 at 05:14 PM Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Thursday said BNP’s allegation over the Rangpur City Corporation election is baseless. BNP at a press briefing on Thursday morning alleged that administration obstructed voters from going to the polling stations in Rangpur and polling agents also were forced out of some polling stations. “We have gleaned information from local level. Voters did not come up with…

report in bdnews24.com, Dec 20, 2017 at 13.06BdSt Narayanganj : Utpal, 29, is a senior correspondent for online news website purbapashchimbd.news. He went missing on Oct 10, soon after leaving his office in Motijheel that afternoon. Around 11:45pm on Tuesday, a microbus dropped him off at a CNG filling station in Narayanganj’s Rupganj Upazila. Police then took him to Bhulta Outpost. His family came to him and took him to Narsingdi’s Raipura around 2:30am on…

by Fazlur Rahman Raju in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 21, 2017 BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will face legal action if she does not withdraw a legal notice sent to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Awami League stalwarts said on Wednesday. The ruling party’s presidium member Matia Chowdhury and its publicity and publication secretary Hasan Mahmud issued the warning during a press conference at the party president’s office in Dhanmondi on Wednesday afternoon. It came a day after…

by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Dep 20, 2017 at 12:53:51.0 BdST Khaleda Zia has sent a legal notice to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demanding an apology for her remarks on the BNP chairperson’s alleged assets in foreign countries. The notice demands an unconditional apology that can be issued to the media within 30 days. Compensation will be sought through legal means if no apology is issued, according to the notice. The legal notice was sent…

by Sheikh Shahariar Zaman in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 19, 2017 at 01:36 PM Bangladesh and Myanmar formed a joint working group (JWG) on Tuesday to start repatriating Rohingya refugees by January 23 next year. The UN migration agency estimated on Sunday that 655,000 Rohingyas had fled persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine State since August 25, raising the total Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar to 867,000. The JWG for their repatriation comprises 15 members from each country…

Utpal DasUtpal Das, a journalist who remained missing over two months, has been found in Naraynaganj’s Bhulta. Utpal’s friend Razib, also a journalist of Bangla daily Samakal, confirmed this to Prothom Alo early Wednesday. The missing journalist was dropped at Bhulta around 12:00am Wednesday by some people, Razib told Prothom Alo. Razib, who had talks with Utpal over phone said, ”Utpal is now on the way to his home in Raipur upazila of Narsingdi.” Utpal,…

Report in The Daily Star, Dec 20, 2017 The prosecution yesterday sought life imprisonment for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and five other accused in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Public Prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kajol of the Anti-Corruption Commission made the appeal after placing his closing argument in the case. Under the law, the highest punishment for the offence is life imprisonment. During yesterday’s argument, Kajol said the charges brought against Khaleda, her elder son…

report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 20, 217 BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has briefed Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim about her party’s stance regarding the upcoming election and Bangladesh’s political scenario. The party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir briefed journalists about the 45-minute meeting held at Dhaka’s Hotel Sonargaon following the meeting on Tuesday evening. “We had a discussion with the Turkish prime minister about Bangladesh’s current political situation, possible scenarios in the national elections…

by Eresh Omar Jamal in The Daily Star, Dec 19, 2017 The writer is a member of the editorial team of the daily In a study conducted by three eminent Dhaka University professors, frustration, loneliness, drug addiction, lack of proper vision and guidance, and at times affluence were identified as major drivers of violent extremism among university students. The study—Bangladesh: Facing Challenges of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism—also identified mal-governance, corruption, absence of rule of law,…