Report in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 22,2017 Bangladesh and Myanmar has began their long-sought two-day talks with high hopes that it will yield outcomes to sign an MoU enabling both the countries to start the repatriation process of all the Rohingyas from Bangladesh to their homeland Myanmar. The international community is also watching the talks and its subsequent outcome as they want to see the safe and dignified return of the Rohingyas as quickly as possible.…
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Report in Prothom ALo, update: 23:33, Nov 20, 2017 Aniruddha Roy“I just stepped out of the Union Bank office [Gulshan 1] after a meeting there, a man approached, said salam and asked, ‘Are you Aniruddha? Are you the honorary consul of Belarus?’ “And I was walking along and talking to him when suddenly another person whisked me off in a microbus. They threatened me to keep looking down on the floor, and not to look…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 21, 2017 The book importer, who was picked up by plainclothes men on November 8, is now claimed to have been arrested on Sunday night in a terror case. His family, however, says he is innocent. Police claimed Tanvir Yasin Karim, owner of Karim International and Darus Salam Publications, was held in Azad Masque area in the capital’s Gulshan. Until the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 21, 2017 A Dhaka court yesterday framed sedition charges against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and three others in a case filed over broadcasting a “provocative speech” of Tarique. Former chairman of Ekushey TV Abdus Salam and former journalists of the TV channel Mahathir Farooki Khan and Kanak Sarwar are the other accused. Salam, now on bail, pleaded innocence and demanded justice after Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of the…
By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla & Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee With the next national polls a year away, the ruling Awami League is scaling up its organisational activities while the BNP is focused on drumming up support for a non-partisan election-time government. Though the two major political camps remain rigid on their stances over the contentious issue of polls-time administration, they have started making preparations for the 11th parliamentary election, say leaders of both the parties. The…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 20, 2017 A suspect in blogger Avijit Roy murder case yesterday confessed before a Dhaka court that he was among four Ansar Al Islam operatives who did a recce of the killing spot near TSC of Dhaka University five to six days before the murder. Mozammel Hossain alias Saimon, in his confessional statement, said four more operatives of the banned militant outfit took part in the killing mission, a…
by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Nov 16, 2017 at 20:49:07.0 BdST The Azimpur neighbourhood in Old Dhaka turned into a battleground on Thursday morning as violent clashes broke out there between followers of two Awami League leaders. The clashes characterised by vandalism and arsons forced motorists to a halt in the area for almost two hours until 1pm. Shah-e-Alam Murad, General Secretary of Dhaka (south) unit of the ruling Awami League, was set to collect…
report on bdnews24.com, Nov 17,2017 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Myanmar and Bangladesh this weekend, his ministry said on Thursday, amid a crisis over Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a military counter-insurgency clearance operation in Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s Rakhine State. A top UN official has described the military’s actions as a textbook case of “ethnic cleansing”. Myanmar rejects accusations of…
by Khondaker Md Abdur Rouf in Dhaka tribune, Nov 16, 2017 Naogaon: Detectives have detained five suspected member of the new faction of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) from Naoduli village in Naogaon district. The suspected militants were detained with firearms and ammunition early Thursday. Atrai police station Office-in-Charge (OC) Akram Hossain said: “Acting on a tip-off, Detective Branch of Police conducted a drive in the area with the help of…
by Chowdhury Akbor Hossain in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 15, 2017 Tabligh Jamaat, an Islamic non-political organisation based in Bangladesh, is being ripped apart by a long standing internal dispute among its top leaders. The dispute over establishing dominance reached a new height after two factions of the organization engaged in a violent clash on the premises of Kakrail Mosque in Dhaka on Tuesday. According to sources from the Tabligh, scuffle between the two factions is…
by Ashif Islam Shaon in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 15,2017 There have been several major attacks on the religious minorities across Bangladesh in the last five years over Facebook posts defaming Islam and Prophet Muhammad. In all cases, the attackers ransacked and burned houses belonging to the minority communities. Places of worships were also not spared. But lengthy investigation and trial proceedings meant that none of those responsible for the attacks had been punished. Residents of…