by Abu Hayat Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune,June 21, 2017 The Awami League has started its groundwork for the 11th general elections in 2019, and the nation might see an unprecedented set of changes in the party nominations as a number of existing lawmakers are likely to be replaced by young and new faces. The ruling party has also started to make preparations to avert pre-election violence, much like the attacks by the BNP-led 20-party alliance…
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by Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, June 19, 2017 at 08:57 PM BNP Standing Committee member and former commerce minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury speaks to the Dhaka Tribune’s Manik Miazee about his party’s strategy for the next general election and its ‘Vision 2030’ development plan for Bangladesh that Khosru helped design. What are the differences between Vision 2030 and the BNP’s election manifesto? Vision 2030 is not our election manifesto. It is our vision…
By Nazrul Islam in Prothom Alo, Jun 13, 2017, 20.07 hrs Over the past six months, a total of 148 militants in the country have been released on bail from the Kashimpur central jail. Alleged Neo-JMB leader Abdur Rauf was arrested from Dhaka in January this year and gave a confessional statement in court. On 2 June he was released on bail from the Kashimpur central jail. On the same day, alleged JMB member Saleh…
Forced to lay low since they had to retreat from the streets in face of police crackdown more than two years ago, the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, is trying to get back in the game by infiltrating other student organisations. Sources in different political and independent student bodies told the Dhaka Tribune that Shibir members are joining their ranks in disguise and then using those organisations’ identities and resources to spread…
Report in bdnews24.com, June 16, 2017 by Abdur Rahim Harmachi, Faysal Atik and Tabarul Haque The prices of price are spiralling out of control as the blame game between wholesalers and millers continues and experts predict a ‘food crisis’ in the making. Government data often lower than market prices shows a 47 percent rise in the price of coarse rice while a fine variety saw around 20 percent rise in a year. Millions of low-income…
Report in The daily Star, Jun 15, 2017 The process of signing a loan agreement with China to implement the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project is underway, Railways Minister Mazibul Hoque told the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday. In reply to lawmakers’ queries, he said work on the physical infrastructure of the project would begin once the deal was inked. In a scripted reply, Mazibul also said the government took up the project to construct the rail…
Report in Dhaka Tribune, June 12, 2017 at 10.04pm Islami Oikya Jote General Secretary Mufti Foyzullah has demanded the resignation of government ministers who have supported the sculpture on the Supreme Court grounds. In addition, he demanded human rights activist Sultana Kamal withdraw her statement about religious symbols and institutions removed from the Supreme Court grounds. Mufti Foyzullah said: “No ‘statues’ can be erected in the country. We must get rid of all the ‘statues’…
Report in The Daily Star, June 13, 2017 Counterterrorism officials have arrested six suspected “Neo JMB” men who allegedly planned to carry out attacks in Ramadan to mark the anniversary of deadly Gulshan café siege. “As part of the plan, they had attempted to kill a top Islamic scholar who is vocal against militancy,” Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of DMP, said at a briefing yesterday. “The militants were preparing…
Report in the daily star, June 12, 2017 The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested a garment factory owner who it claimed is a Majlish-e-Shura (policy-making body) member of JMB’s “Sarwar-Tamim Group” and also a major fund provider for the banned militant outfit. A Rab-11 team arrested Imran Ahmed, 37, managing director of Jim Tex Linkage Industries Limited, and his accomplice Shamim Mia, 29, in a raid in Narayanganj’s Rupganj area. Shamim is Imran’s driver. He…
Report in the daily star, June 12, 2017 Seven members of “Neo JMB” surrendered early today after law enforcers cordoned off a house in Tanore upazila of Rajshahi suspecting a militant den. The law enforcers cordoned off the house of one Ramjan Ali of Dangapara village under Pachandar union around 11:00pm last night following information that Ramjan and his family members are involved in militancy, reports our Rajshahi staff correspondent quoting police. Seven suspected militants…
Report in The daily star, Juen 11, 2017 A bill titled “Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission Bill, 2017” was placed in Parliament today to update the version of the “Bangladesh Atomic Commission Order, 1973” in Bangla. Science and Technology Minister Architect Yafesh Osman placed the bill in the House and it was then sent to the respective Parliamentary Standing Committee for further scrutiny. The committee was asked to submit its report within a month. According to…