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report in The Daily Star, Aug 12,2017 New Delhi: Another Bangladeshi, believed to be a member of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), has been arrested in a joint drive in New Delhi of India. The 25-year-old, Raja-ul-Ahmed, was detained by Delhi and West Bengal police on August 1. He was also wanted for his alleged involvement in the circulation of fake Indian currency. Delhi police did not share details of the issue with…

In Bangladesh, a Bachelor or Master’s degree certificate is usually the result of 16 to 18 years of education. Then again, as the old saying goes, in Dhaka city you can get tiger’s milk if you have the money. Certificates that are as good as the original may not even cost as much, as this correspondent has found. For as little as Tk2,000, one can skip the hard work of attending schools, thanks to a…

by Sheikh Shahariar Zaman in Dhaka Tribune, August 10, 2017, at 11PM Canada’s Immigration Court and Supreme Court had initially rejected Bangabandhu’s murderer Noor Chowdhury’s application for political asylum and wanted to send him back, but the then BNP government let the opportunity go by. Canada even sent a letter in this regard to the Bangladesh government in 2006. But because of the BNP government’s lack of interest in the matter, Noor Chowdhury was able…

by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, August 11, 2017 Ahmed Azwad Imtiaz Talukdar aka Omi, an A Levels student at Sunbeams School in Dhaka, spent 372 days at various militant hideouts, waiting for his call to “hizrat.” He wrote a letter to his parents and broke his mobile phone before leaving. He was finally arrested by police on March 7. Omi left his house on the instructions of an unknown contact. He went to Mohammadpur,…

Report in the Daily Star, Aug 10, 2017 The Awami League yesterday alleged that the BNP with ill intentions was trying to make it an opponent of the judiciary. “None should do politics over the Supreme Court verdict. The judiciary should be kept above party and opinion. The judiciary is the last resort of people. So there should not be any politics or difference over it, but they [BNP] are doing it,” AL Presidium Member…

By Manik Miazee & Fazlur Rahman Raju in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 9, 2017 at 07:16 PM BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is currently in London, is likely to have a meeting with leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to strengthen relations between the two parties, sources say. The BNP has been trying to improve its relations with the BJP ever since Narendra Modi’s party came to power since 2014, sources in the party…

by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Aug 9, 2017 at 20:37:57.0 BdST Little-known and completely unheard-of print publications sell tens of thousands of copies in Bangladesh, if the Department of Film and Publication, the agency that distributes government advertisements, were to be believed. The latest circulation figures for print newspapers and magazines released by the DFP has raised eyebrows and triggered ripples of laughter among the people involved with the media industry. This is because the…

Report in The Daily Star, Aug 8, 2017 at 2.07pm Bangladesh’s law enforcers claim to have destroyed the operational capacity of militants leading to hopes that there will be no more militant attacks at the moment. “We have destroyed the operational capacity of militants,” said Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, at a programme today. “The operational capacity of the militants that grew last year is no more. We have destroyed…

report in The Daily Star, Aug 9, 2017 The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday claimed to have arrested a “terror financier” at Habiganj. Mostaq Ahmed Khan, 27, once a Bangladeshi expatriate in Turkey, used to collect money from different organisations and individuals in Turkey and spend it for terror and militancy financing in Bangladesh, Molla Nazrul Islam, CID special superintendent, told reporters at his office in the capital. “Several crore of taka was deposited in Mostaq’s…

Reuters report in Dhaka Tribune, August 09, 2017 Bangladeshi-American indicted for attempted murder of FBI agent, IS support A federal grand jury has indicted a Maryland man on charges of attempting to murder an FBI agent and trying to provide support to Islamic State militants, US prosecutors said on Tuesday. Nelash Das, 25, of Landover Hills, was arrested by federal agents in September 2016 as he was preparing to attack a US military service member.…