By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN in The NY Times online, Dec 18, 2017 DHAKA, Bangladesh — Before Akayed Ullah returned home to New York from his native Bangladesh, and tried to blow himself up with a pipe bomb in a crowded Manhattan subway station, he had one last thing to do — an all-night bus ride by himself to help Rohingya refugees. After visiting relatives here in the capital city, Dhaka, he traveled across the country, slept…
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Rajshahi: Two minor boys saved a train from an accident at Bagha upazila in Rajshahi district on Monday. They are Sihabur Rahman, 6, son of Sumon Ali, and Titon Ali, 7, son of Shahidul Islam. Nayan Ahmed, station master of Arani stattion at Bagha, said there was a bang when inter-city train the Silk City moved past Jhina Rail Gate. Sihabur and Titon, who were returning home from the field, rushed to the spot and…
by AKM Zamir Uddin & Sajjadur Rahman in The Daily Star, Dec 18, 2017 The AB Bank has allegedly laundered around Tk 165 crore to the United Arab Emirates through two shady organisations in the name of investment, according to a Bangladesh Bank probe report. The board of directors of the AB Bank in December 2013 approved investment of $20 million in Singapore-based fundraising and investment company Pinnacle Global Fund Pte Ltd (PGF) through the…
By Jessica Donati in The Wall St Journal, Dec 15, 2017 at 5:30 a.m. ET WASHINGTON—The botched terror attack in New York this week has created a fresh test for a new counterterrorism force tackling a growing U.S. concern: international extremism in Bangladesh, home of the suspect. The Bangladesh-based Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit spearheading a probe into the failed attack, set up with U.S. help last year, was expected to focus on crime. But…
by Tarek Mahmud in in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 14, 2017 at 09:51 AM The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit (CTTC) detained top New JMB leader Abdus Samad alias Arif Mamu alias Ashiq and two others on Wednesday night Three suspected members of the new faction of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) have been detained from Mohakhali area in Dhaka. The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit (CTTC) detained top New…
report in bdnews24.com, Dec 11, 2017 at 18.15 hrsBdst Brahmanbaria: Police have brought charges against 228 people in court over the arson, vandalism and looting of the temples, homes and businesses of Hindus at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria in October last year. The chargesheet has been submitted to a judicial magistrate’s court on Monday, said the court police’s Inspector Md Mahbubur Rahman. The law enforcers finalised the chargesheet in one of the eight cases over the…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 11, 2017 at 14:16 hrs Ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will investigate the “allegation of siphoning money by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia and her family members”. “Different media outlets have reported that Khaleda Zia has siphoned money to 12 countries,” claimed Quader while speaking at a discussion meeting in the capital. AL’s volunteers’ wing Swechchhasebak League…
by Khondaker Md Abdur Rouf in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 12, 2017 Naogaon: Two suspected members of the new faction of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) have been arrested from Atrai upazila of Naogaon district. Police arrested Md Robiul Ripon, 32, and Md Parvez Gaddafi, 20, around 9pm on Monday. Atrai police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mobarak Hossain said: “Acting on a tip-off, we conducted a drive in Kashiabari sluice gate area and…
Reuters report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 12, 2017 A Bangladeshi man with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour on Monday, wounding himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect in the incident at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, a block from Times Square, was identified as Akayed Ullah, the New…
by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Dec 11,2017 The BNP has presented its statistics of murders, abduction and ‘cooked-up’ charges against its leaders, and said that the Awami League government has made human rights disappear from Bangladesh. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the claim at a human chain in Dhaka on Sunday, marking the International Human Rights Day. A total of 78,323 fake cases have been opened against 783,238 leaders and activists of…
by Nazrul Islam in Prothom Alo, Dec 10, 2017 at 23:22 hrs He’s been staying abroad for 12 years, carrying out criminal acts of extortion and intimidating people back in the country over phone from abroad. He even managed to halt the trial process of 16 cases against him by intimidating the plaintiffs and witnesses of the cases from abroad. This is none other than the top terror Shahadat Hossain. The fugitive criminal was awarded…