Posts published in “Bangladesh”

by Md Tauhid-Uz-Zaman & Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 10, 2017 Police have recovered three suicide vests and a number of maps from a militant hideout in Jessore, after a female militant who had been holed up in the building overnight surrendered on Monday. Police sources said the four-storey building, located near Jame Mosque on Ghop Noapara Road, was cordoned off around 10pm on Sunday. Five families were rescued from the building around…

by Manik Miazee & Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 10, 2017 Detectives on Monday evening arrested nine Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, including its top echelon- Ameer Maqbul Ahmad, Nayeb-e-ameer Mia Ghulam Parwar, Secretary General Dr Shafiqur Rahman and Chittagong Metropolitan Ameer Mawlana Shahjahan- from a house in Dhaka’s Uttara. Member of Jamaat central executive committee Dr Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune. Detective Branch Deputy Commissioner (North) Sheikh Nazmul Alam…

The Jatiya Party (JaPa) is set to place a 10-point proposal before the Election Commission including the proposal of deploying armed forces during the upcoming parliamentary election. As part of the Election Commission’s ongoing dialogues with registered political parties, JaPa has been asked to send its representatives to sit with the commission on Monday. According to party presidium member Sunil Shuvo Roy, the 10-point proposal will comprise the enactment of an independent Election Commission Act,…

Jessore: Police cordoned off a house in Ghop Central Road area of the district town early today suspecting it a militant hideout. ATM Ajmal Huda, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station, said tipped off that the militants are staying in the house, a team of police cordoned off a house in the area around 2:00am. Once the team of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) reached the spot from Dhaka, the…

By Rejaul Karim Byron in The Daily Star, Oct 5, 2017 Dhaka and New Delhi have signed a $4.5 billion credit agreement with a provision for spending nearly one fourth of the amount on Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant at Rooppur. Through this deal, India becomes a party to the civil nuclear programme to be implemented by Russia. At the signing ceremony of the third Line of Credit (LoC) at the finance ministry yesterday, visiting…

Report in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 4, 2017 at 6.06pm Bangladesh’s military procurement agency, the Directorate General Defence Purchases (DGPD), has issued a notice to foreign vendors to submit bids, in support of a programme to procure howitzers for the Bangladesh Army, reports IHS Jane. The notice was issued in late September, which outlines a requirement to obtain 155mm light-weight towed howitzers. One of the requirements includes transporting the howitzers via fixed-wing aircraft. In order to…

Report in The daily star, Oct 4, 2017 The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday alleged that Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was forced to take a month’s leave, a claim both the law minister and the attorney general termed baseless. They said the CJ took the leave due to illness. Mahbubey Alam, the AG, also dismissed as “not true” journalists’ suggestions that Justice Sinha was put under house arrest. According to him, the SCBA…

by Ibrahim Hossain Ovi in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 3, 2017 at 11.55pm Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has urged the Indian government to remove non-tariff barriers including countervailing duty – a type of import tax – to boost the bilateral trade between Bangladesh and India. Speaking at a bilateral meeting held by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) in Dhaka on Tuesday, the minister said: “India has given us duty-free and quota-free…

Report in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 3, 2017 Bangladesh has sought details from India regarding British Bangladesh national Samiun Rahman, who was arrested in Delhi last month. Bangladesh wrote a letter to National Investigation Agency (NIA) seeking Saimun’s details. On September 17, Samiun was arrested from Vikas Marg in east Delhi for allegedly trying to recruit Rohingya on behalf of the terrorist outfit Al-Qaeda. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and NIA regularly exchange inputs on cases of…

By Rejaul Karim Byron in The daily star, Oct 1, 2017 Bangladesh’s utilisation of Indian lines of credit has been nothing more than a sorry state of affairs in the past seven years. Over the period, Dhaka has witnessed renewed vigour in New Delhi’s commitments to financing projects with credits doubling and redoubling. On top of two LoCs involving $3.06 billion that India already committed, a third one amounting to $4.5 billion is now in…