by Tasneem Khalil in Dhaka Tribune, July 26, 2017 Sajit Debnath aka Muhammad Saifullah Ozaki, the Japanese-Bangladeshi jihadi and former associate professor of Ritsumeikan University, is most likely the elusive ameer of ISIS in Bangladesh, responsible for a series of jihadi attacks in the country including the July 2016 massacre at the Holey Artisan Bakery. Information gathered during months of investigation suggest that Ozaki is the individual whose interview was featured in the 14th issue…
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Report in bdnews24.com, July 25, 2017 at 21:19:08.0 BdST The BNP has threatened to launch a movement if the government does not start a dialogue to make sure the next election is “participatory”. “We prefer to sit for talks over any movement,” said BNP vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu addressing a human chain demonstration in Dhaka on Tuesday. “We will be forced to start a movement if the government, instead of starting talks, continues to suppress leaders…
by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, July 26, 2017 Empty bullet shells lying around after the raid in Kallyanpur “Operation Storm 26” was conducted on July 27 last year. The was the first known operation to hunt down Islamic militants across the country after the Holey Artisan attack which claimed 23 lives Courtesy of DMP Bangladeshi law enforcement has been insistent that there is no link at all. Their view is that home-grown terrorists are…
by Tahseen Ali in bdnews24.com, July 24, 2017 The western media and several otherwise well-intentioned nongovernmental organizations routinely criticize Bangladesh for taking actions against leaders of the country’s main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP. They assume that accusing opposition party members with crimes is automatically undemocratic and undermines the rule of law. In fact, the opposite is the case, and a top court in Canada recently provided proof. Earlier this year, Judge…
report in Dhaka Tribune,July 24, 2017 Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) has urged the government to remove the Section 57 from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act and withdraw all cases filed under the law against journalists. The call was made in a meeting of the newspaper owners’ platform at the office of Bangla daily Prothom Alo in Karwan Bazar, Dhaka on Saturday, says a press release. Terming the Section 57 an attack…
Report in The daily Star, July 24, 2017 Dhaka: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said the country is heading towards danger due to a conflicting behaviour of Awami League and BNP. He said this while talking to reporters at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. After a five-day personal visit to India, Ershad, also a special envoy to the prime minister, returned home yesterday. He claimed that the Indian political leaders would stand beside Jatiya Party…
by Rozina Islam in Prothom Alo, July 21, 2017 at 23:44 hrs Awami LeagueExtremists are infiltrating Khulna Awami League and some of them have even managed posts in the committees and have contested in elections on the ruling Bangladesh Awami League’s (AL) ticket. Rumours have it that deputy ministers, members of parliament and local influential leaders are patronising such moves, much to the discomfit of the grassroots AL leaders and activists. To make things worse,…
Report in bdnews24.com, July 22, 2017 Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru has been made a member of the Awami League Presidium, its highest policymaking forum. The newest Presidium member, Khasru, had been serving as legal affairs secretary in the Central Working Committee for the past six years. He served as law minister in Sheikh Hasina’s 1996 cabinet. Supreme Court lawyer SM Rezaul Karim will replace the four-time Comilla-5 MP as new legal affairs secretary.…
Report in The Daily Star, July 22, 2017 Two women surrendered to police, who cordoned off a suspected militant hideout in Gangni upazila of Meherpur since this morning. Meanwhile, a man was also arrested during the raid at Bamondi village in the upazila, Akram Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC), of Gangni Police Station, told The Daily Star this morning. Law enforcers cordoned off a single-storey house around 11:00am, the OC said adding that the raid is taking…
by Mahadi Al Hasnat in Dhaka tribune, July 21, 2017 The National Curriculum and Textbook Board’s (NCTB) much-hyped attempt at fixing the school textbooks criticised for their content may end in nothing, as board officials say they are not bringing any major changes to the books. Faced with protests from cultural activists and secular groups, who deemed several changes brought to texts this year as a compromise to placate religious pressure groups, the government announced…
by Md Asiuzzaman in bdnews24.com, July 18, 2017 Toronto: Some Bangladeshi expatriates in Canada believe that the post-Hasina government will be a ‘communal one’ since both the major parties in Bangladesh are pampering the ‘fundamentalist forces’ to stay in power. They also believe the country’s politics is now in a quagmire that will suck society and like landslides, the people will see ‘socialslides’ in future. They find no difference between two major political parties as…