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By Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, July 18, 2017 The wife of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman is likely to enter politics soon to assist his mother, party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in the upcoming general election campaign. A number of senior leaders of the party believe that Dr Zubaida Rahman, who lives in London with her husband and daughter, is capable of revamping and rejuvenating the crisis-riddled party through mass communication before the next polls…

Report in Dhaka Tribune Desk, July 18, 2017 at 07:14 PM Families and neighbours of suspected militants Mozammel, Rashed, Erfan and Alamgir – who were arrested from a hideout in Ashulia on July 16 – said they did not have any idea the youths were radicalised and involved in militant activity. Three hail from rural areas in different districts, while Erfan’s family currently resides in Hathazari upazila of Chittagong. Our correspondents visited the family residences…

Report on bdnews24.com, July 16, 2017 A team of the Rapid Action Battalion has come under fire from inside a house suspected to be a militant hideout at Ashulia in Savar. The shots were fired after the law enforcers surrounded the house at Chourabali neighbourhood in Noyarhat on the outskirts of capital Dhaka around 1am on Sunday. “The suspected militants fired at least five shots at the RAB personnel,” RAB-4 Commanding Officer Additional DIG Lutful…

By Golam Mortuja in Prothom Alo, July 15, 2017 at 17:52 International terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda is stepping up their activities in the Indian subcontinent. The activities of the organisation is also increasing in Bangladesh, said a report of a research organisation presented during the hearing of a US House of Representatives sub-committee related to Homeland Security. During the hearing it was also said that the terrorist organisation has appointed a hundred of its members in…

Reuters report in Dhaka Tribune, July 14, 2017 As fellow Muslims were celebrating the end of Ramadan late in June, Noor Ankis and her neighbours buried her husband at the refugee camp in Bangladesh where he had lived for years. Mohammed Ayub’s body – his throat slit and hands tied behind his back – had been found dumped in a desolate corner of the camp for Rohingya Muslims who have fled neighbouring Myanmar. Thirty-year-old Ayub…

Report in The daily star, July 14, 2017 Dhaka: Leaders of several political parties last night met to discuss the launching of a political platform with eye on the next general election due in late 2018 or early 2019. Law enforcers allegedly tried to disrupt the meeting at Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD-Rob) President ASM Abdur Rob’s Uttara residence. Talking to The Daily Star, Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna said they sat to discuss the…

By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, July 13, 2017 The Election Commission has asked all the registered political parties to send the name of a person each within seven working days so that it can contact them for an electoral dialogue and other related issues. The commission is likely to open the dialogue next month which might continue through October. Copies of a letter signed by EC Secretary Muhammad Abdullah were sent to…

This year’s unusual hike in rice prices caught Food Minister Qamrul Islam napping. Both Qamrul and the ministry he leads seemed ill prepared all along, but the minister has his own logic for that. “I’m no astrologer,” he told The Daily Star, “How could I possibly anticipate that there would be such a devastating flood?” He was, of course, referring to the flashfloods that washed away 10 lakh tonnes of Boro rice, the only rice…

by Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, July 11, 2017 att 10:26 PM Jamaat-e-Islami has raised an allegation that the government is once again employing the strategy of mass arrest to cover up its failure to contain the spread of chikunguniya, a mosquito-borne viral infection. Issuing a press statement on Tuesday, Jamaat’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Mujibur Rahman alleged: “The government is continuously arresting activists and leaders of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir to cover up…

Dhaka: The BNP yesterday revealed a list of its 25 “missing leaders and activists”. “The Awami League general secretary has talked about the list of people who were forcibly disappeared. I’m presenting a short list of our missing leaders, mainly of those in Dhaka,” said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Speaking at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, he said it would take some time to present the full…