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by Sumon Mahmud in bdnews24.com, Oct 28, 2017 at 20.12hrs BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade has been attacked in Feni. The former prime minister left Dhaka Saturday morning for Cox’s Bazar to visit the Rohingyas, who faced persecution in their homeland in Rakhine and fled to Bangladesh in the past one month. She is scheduled to stay overnight in Chittagong and start for the coastal district in the morning. Several cars of the motorcade came…

report in bdnews24.com, Oct 29, 2017 at 10.38am RAB has arrested three suspected militants in a raid in Chapainawabganj. The three were taken into custody early on Sunday in the Sadar Upazila’s Bablabona area, said Chapainawabganj RAB-5 Commander Squadron Leader Sayeed Abdullah Al Murad. “The detainees are members of the JMB Sarwar-Tamim group.” Weapons and explosives were seized from the suspects during the raid, he said. More details on the suspects will be available later,…

report in the Daily Star, Oct 29, 2018 Dinajpur: “Neo-JMB” operative Mohaddes Ali alias Dorji Bijoy, who was arrested on October 19 in Bogra, was involved in the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi. He was also involved in the killings of Khadem Rahmat Ali of Kaunia upazila in Rangpur, and Dr Deepti of Gaibandha district. Khandakar Golam Faruk, deputy inspector general (DIG) of police of Rangpur Range, told a press conference at his office…

by Rajeev Ahmed in Daily Tribune, Oct 28, 2017 The writer is a geo-political analyst and strategic thinker. China is the major development partner of Bangladesh. It is frequently touted by the leaders of both countries that Bangladesh and China need to maintain a strategic partnership. Although China recognised Bangladesh four years after its independence, it is also a well-known fact that Chinese-supported pro-Beijing communist party elements in Bangladesh, opposed the Awami League-led, India-backed, and…

The writer is a commentator on current affairs and former Associate Editor, The Daily Star. One can draw two significant messages from Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s just-concluded visit to Bangladesh: First, she has basically reiterated India’s position that an incumbent government is obligated to hold the general election, if and when it falls due in a democratic country. She, however, added, that how an election will be held would be determined by the…

Report in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 26, 2017 at 11.05pm The Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) has denied news reports that some army officers recently held a secret meeting in Dhaka to discuss a sensitive matter. Indian daily The Telegraph on last Wednesday published a report claiming that 20 retired and serving officers met at the residence of a retired lieutenant general on October 21. The report mentioned multiple sources in Dhaka and New Delhi. The…

report in bdnews24.com, Oct 27, 2017 Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has said the Election Commission has nothing to do with the polls-time government.It is none of commission’s business whether the current parliament will continue to function during the next general elections, he added. “There is no scope to go beyond the Constitution and the law. The election will have to be held in the existing constitutional system,” CEC Nurul Huda said at a…

After decades of successful collaboration with the government, non-government organisations (NGOs) are currently experiencing an existential crisis in Bangladesh. Asian Development Bank in its profile of Bangladesh states that from relief and rehabilitation, microcredit loan programs, and education to strategies for water treatment and agriculture, NGOs have found a niche for themselves in the gap between society and state, seeking to promote the people’s welfare through grassroots initiatives and development programs. But between the new…

Report in BDNews24,com, Oct 25, 2017 at 23:35 hrs India supports the “government incumbency” during the general elections, and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has conveyed the message to the BNP chairperson during their meeting in Dhaka. Khaleda Zia met Sushma Swaraj at Hotel Sonargoan during her visit on Oct 22 and 23. “We cannot recommend a system which is contrary to us,” a diplomatic source in New Delhi who was present during the meeting…

Report on bdnews24.com, Oct 25, 2017 The Rapid Action Batallion or RAB arrested three people and seized the drug and drug-making materials during a raid at Dhaka’s Pallabi on Monday. The ring is associated with a Bangladeshi expatriate in Spain, RAB said. The detainees are Mir Manjur Morshed Sunny and two of his accomplices – Mahmudul Hasan Chayan and Habibullah Khan. Sunny’s elder brother Mahadi Manjur Manna has been living in Spain for the last…