Report in Prothom Alo, Jun 10, 2017 Rajashahi: A madrasah teacher was chopped to death by miscreants at Khanpur village in Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Abul Kalam, 35, a physical education teacher of Khanpur Dakhil Madrasah and son of Moyez Uddin of the village. Officer in-charge (OC) of Bagmara police station Nasim Ahmed said two people called Kalam out of a tea shop at Khanpur Bazar while…
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Report in The Daily Star, June 09, 2017 Two alleged members of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chuadanga and Rajbari early yesterday, while police shot dead two suspected robbers in Naogaon. Local leader of PBCP Oltu Mondol, 40, was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Khashkarra village of Chuadanga’s Alamdanga, reports our Kushtia correspondent. Some criminals opened fire on a Rab patrol team…
by Ahmed Zaeef in Prothom Alo, June 6, 2017 at 17:26 hrs .Mohammad Mohibur Rahman, a former army officer, has been missing for more than a year. Symun Hasib (Monaz), son of a former secretary has also been missing for over two and a half years. There’s no trace of marine engineer Najibullah Ansari either. Law enforcement agencies and family sources of the missing youths said they might have gone to Syria or Iraq to…
by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 5, 2017 A man, pseudo-named ‘Ayub Bachchu’, is trying to reorganise the revived faction of the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or Neo-JMB amid crackdowns on terror groups throughout Bangladesh, police say. Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit chief Monirul Islam told a press conference on Sunday that ‘Bachchu’ took over as Neo-JMB chief after their leader Moinul Islam Musa was believed to be killed in a raid in Sylhet.…
by Nawaz Farhin in dhaka tribune, June 5, 2017 Bangladeshis spent a whopping $2.5 billion dollars on cosmetics in 2016 alone, according to a recent report the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2016-17. Bangladesh is the sixth largest buyer of cosmetics in the Muslim world, the report states. They measured halal pharmaceuticals and cosmetics indicators to evaluate countries health and development of their halal pharmaceuticals and cosmetics ecosystem. This indicator is part of…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, June 4, 2017 Ayub Bacchu, the incumbent ameer of New JMB, escaped arrest by a hair when a police team raided his safe house. On May 27, the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of police raided two houses in Genda, Savar. CTTC chief Monirul Islam said: “Ayub was living with his family at the Genda safehouse in Savar. He fled with them just before the raid.” The CTTC…
Report in The daily star, June 04, 2017 Jhenidah: Police arrested eight suspected Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members from a house in Arpara village under Shalikha upazila of Magura on Friday. They seized jihadi books, electronics devices, some small pieces of brass and twelve bundles of counterfeit money. The arrestees are house owner and ex-ameer of upazila Jamaat-e-Islami advocate Farid Ahmed, Bachchu Mia, Obaidul Hossain, Abul Bashar, Anwar Hossain, Jahangir Alam, Ohidul Islam and Rabiul…
Report in The daily star, June 04, 2017 The government is trying to establish Hefajat-e-Islam as a political force, alleged eminent theatre personality Ramendu Mazumder yesterday. “If they [Hefajat] are given patronisation … if these people who are using religious cards are not resisted, we will dig our own graves,” he said, adding that cultural activists would not accept any political compromise with the fanatics. He said this at a sit-in programme at Central Shaheed…
Report in The daily star, June 03, 2017 Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist organisation Hefajat-e-Islam is trying to malign the secular image of the country by demanding demolition of sculptures, war crimes trial campaigner Shahriar Kabir said yesterday. He also criticised the government, saying the government acted tough after the Hefajat-led May 5 mayhem at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka in 2013, but it has moved away from the position. “The government should explain why it has become…
Report in The daily star, June 03, 2017 Qawmi madrasa based Islamist organisation Hefajat-e-Islam yesterday threatened mass demonstrations after Ramadan unless the government removed the statue of Lady Justice from the Annex Building premises of the Supreme Court. Its leaders made the demands from a rally held in front of Baitul Mukarram Mosque in the capital following Jumma prayers. Amid growing demands by several Islamist outfits for removal of the statue, the SC authorities took…
by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, May 31, 2017 at 09:40 PM Security forces have intensified anti-terror operations after last year’s attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan – the worst terrorist incident in Bangladesh’s history. But one thing that has since become a common feature of anti-militancy operations is the recovery of explosives, usually in huge quantities, from militant hideouts. The latest raid on a militant hideout in Savar, on the outskirts of…