by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 8, 2017 Sacked major Syed Ziaul Haq was present at the spot when writer and blogger Avijit Roy was attacked and killed in February 2015, his accomplice has told the court. Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) member Md Abu Siddiq Sohel, alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab, was arrested on Sunday night in the Mohammadpur area, Dhaka. In his appearance before the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Monday,…
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Report in The Daily Star, Nov 7, 2017 Dhaka: The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of a joint venture agreement between Bangladesh’s Rural Power Company Ltd and Norinco International of China to build two power plants to produce 1,320 MW electricity. The approval was given at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. “The power plants will be set up in Paira Port area of…
By Shakhawat Liton in The Daily Star, Nov 5, 2017 The Chinese recipe for resolving the Rohingya crisis is not working. Yet, Beijing is insisting on it. Over the last 10 months, China has been speaking for resolution of the crisis through bilateral efforts between Bangladesh and Myanmar. After last year’s brutal crackdown on Rohingyas by the Myanmar military, Beijing had also offered mediation between the two countries to resolve the crisis. But, the continuous…
Report in The daily star, Nov 4, 2017 The BNP will participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections despite “all obstacles”, party’s Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed said yesterday. The party must contest the polls even if it faces obstacle and repression, he said while addressing a discussion organised by Swadhinata Forum, a pro-BNP organisation, at the Jatiya Press Club. Issuing a note of “caution” that no national election would he held in the country without…
report in The daily star, Nov 4, 2017 Benapole: Jessore police recovered 100 crude bombs from a three-storied building in Kharki of Jessore district town on Thursday night. Some seven unidentified men with five plastic shopping bags entered the house around 9:00pm and directly went into an under-construction store room on the ground floor of the building, said the building owner, Mahbubur Rahman. Tenants of the girls’ hostel, housed on the same floor, informed the…
report in bdnews24.com, Nov 2, 2017 ar 18:20:42.0 BdST BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has defended herself in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case and said the government is trying to portray her as ineligible for contesting the national polls. “Their ministers are saying that I will be convicted and kept at Kashimpur jail. I fear that I may not get justice,” she said at Dhaka’s fifth special judge’s court at Bakshibazar on Thursday. The court…
report in Prothom Alo, Nov 1,2017 at 16.11hrs Dhaka: Khaleda ZiaThe head of a pro-Awami League organisation has lodged a complaint of sedition charge against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia with a Dhaka court on Wednesday. Bangabandhu Foundation executive chairman Mashiur Rahman allegedly that Khaleda had held a secret meeting with an official of Pakistani intelligence agency ISI in the United Kingdom. The court of chief metropolitan magistrate Abdullah Al Masud that received the complant in…
By Sumon Mahmud, from the BNP motorcade in bdnews24.com, Oct 31, 2017 at 21.53hrs Two buses have been firebombed and explosives detonated in Feni as the BNP motorcade carrying Chairperson Khaleda Zia passed through the area on its way back to Dhaka from the Rohingya refugee camps. The incident occurred around 4:30pm on Tuesday as the motorcade drove past Feni’s Mahipal area. Violence erupted in the area, causing disruptions. On Saturday, when the BNP motorcade…
by Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:18 PM Khaleda at present faces 36 cases and police have submitted charges in a total of 17 cases. With the 11th national general elections only a year away, whether Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) – which boycotted the last national elections – will participate in the elections is on everyone’s minds. That participation hinges heavily on whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will eventually be allowed…
Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested a suspected “Neo JMB” militant, who was charge-sheeted in a case filed over the 2015 attacks on two mosques inside Bangladesh Navy’s Issa Khan Base in Chittagong. Bablu Rahman, 23, was taken to the port city hours after his arrest in Arappur Bus Stand area of Jhenidah town. Later, the investigation officer of the case appealed to a Chittagong court to show the accused arrested in the case over the…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 29, 2017 A Dhaka court today sentenced 11 Freedom Party members to 20 years’ imprisonment for their attempt to kill present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 1989. The court also awarded life-term imprisonment to the accused for blasting bombs, on the same day, targeting Hasina’s Dhanmondi No 32 residence. Judge Md Zahidul Kabir of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka delivered the verdicts in presence…