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EC-JournalistSenior journalists on Wednesday asked the election commission to ensure participation of all political parties in the next 11th parliamentary elections to make it a credible one. Joining a dialogue organised by the commission at its secretariat in the capital, as part of its series of talks with different stakeholders ahead of the next general elections, the journalists also asked the commission to deploy military troops and introduce ‘no-vote’ provision. EC’s acting secretary Helaluddin Ahmad…

by Fazlur Rahman Raju in Dhaka Tribune, August 17, 2017 The Awami League is set to hand tickets to compete in the next parliamentary election to a number of businessmen and former bureaucrats and military officers, party sources have revealed. Many of the aspiring candidates are so confident of receiving the ruling party’s nod, they have already started unofficial campaigning around the country. Several sources of the Awami League have confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune…

Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh militant Tariqul Islam Tareq was arrested in Chittagong in connection with a 2005 countrywide series bomb blast case. A Chittagong court later sentenced him to five years in prison for the bomb attack. He served the time and was released in 2013. On October 5, 2015, he stormed a Maddhya Badda house and hacked a spiritual leader (pir) dead. He was arrested nine days later. The murder was carried out at a…

By Manik Miazee and Tarek Mahmud Leaders and activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir are allegedly using a “get expelled strategy” to join the New JMB, a new faction of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, to carry out terror attacks across Bangladesh. With very little scope to play a role in the country’s political arena nowadays, Jamaat and Shibir over the years had secretly expelled over various unclear reasons…

by Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, August 17, 2017 Police on Wednesday said they suspect the Mourning Day bomber, Saiful Islam, 21, had other co-conspirators who had planned to bomb the procession leading up to the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on National Mourning Day. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said: “We strongly suspect that the co-conspirators are hiding somewhere in Dhaka and we are doing everything to find them.” Police also said militant…

by Bilkis Irani in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 17, 2017 at 5.41pm Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Thursday said the Election Commission will neither bow down nor mediate any election-related issue among political parties. “It’s not the Election Commission’s (EC’s) duty to mediate among political parties. We don’t need to go to anyone as the EC is an independent body,” KM Nurul Huda told a dialogue with electronic media persons and senior journalists at…

Report in The Daily Star, Aug 15, 2017 Kushtia: Police recovered 16 petrol and crude bombs and some bomb-making materials from Saddam Hossain Hall at Islamic University in Kushtia on Sunday night and arrested two Shibir activists in this connection. The arrestees are Hasnat Hossain, a master’s student of computer science and engineering, and Golam Azam, a third-year student of Al Hadith and Islamic studies. On information, law enforcers raided different rooms of the dormitory…

Report in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 16, 2017 by Md Hedait Hossain Molla Khulna, & Arifur Rahman Rabbi Saiful Islam, the militant who was killed, possibly by his own bombs, during a raid on Hotel Olio International in Panthapath, Dhaka on Tuesday morning, came to Dhaka only a week ago, telling his family that he was coming to the capital city to look for employment. The 21-year-old was a native of Noakati village in Shahosh union…

by Kamal Talukder in bdnews24.com, Aug 15, 2017 at 23:53:50.0 BdST  Detectives have been raiding hotels and lodgings in Bangladesh’s capital after learning of plans for ‘large-scale violence” two months before the mourning month, said Monirul Islam, head of police’s counterterror unit. A madrasa student from Khulna, identified as Saiful Islam, he blew himself up on the fourth floor of Panthapath’s Hotel Olio International while it was surrounded by police on Tuesday morning. The hotel…

Report in The daily star, aug 16, 2017 A suspected suicide bomber of “Neo JMB” was killed during an anti-militancy operation at a city hotel yesterday as counterterrorism officials claim he had planned to carry out an attack on the crowd paying homage to Bangabandhu on National Mourning Day at Dhanmondi 32. The hotel is around half a kilometre off Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, the historic house in Dhanmondi where the Father of the Nation was…