by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 18, 2017 The daughter of Bangladesh’s founding father says many in the party were involved in the conspiracy along with minister Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, just four years after independence. “Actually the enemies were disguised in our own house. No one gets the chance to do any harm without the help of an insider. They (the enemies in Awami League) gave them (the killers of Bangabandhu) the opportunity,” she said…
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Report in The Daily Star, May 17, 2017 Jhenidah: Law enforcers claimed to have recovered two suicide vests, four crude bombs and bomb-making materials near two houses of suspected Neo JMB operatives in Jhenidah Sadar upazila yesterday. The houses in Chuadanga village belong to suspects Selim Hossain, 35, and Pranto Hossain, 17, who were arrested by a team of Rapid Action Battalion at their homes around 1:00am yesterday, said Rab-6 Commanding Officer Maj Monir Ahmed.…
by Abu Siddique in Dhaka Tribune, May 16, 2017 The nation’s food supply is likely to face a threat from the loss of Boro production in the current season from early flash-floods in the Haor wetlands, as well as pest attacks on paddy crops across the country. To add to the crisis, rice reserves in both the public and private sectors are at their lowest in recent memory. Rice prices are already unusually high and…
Report in The daily star, May 16, 2017 The Supreme Court yesterday upheld its earlier verdict that handed convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee imprisonment until death for his crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War in 1971. Effectively now, Sayedee would have to serve in jail until his natural death. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed two separate petitions filed by Sayedee and the…
Report in The Daily Star, May 13, 2017 A regional leader of an outlawed party and his aide were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district early today. The deceased are: Rakibul Hasan Roky alias Bappi, 35, the regional leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party’s (PBCP-ML) Lal Pataka faction, and his aide Lalon Mollah, 40. Rab recovered one foreign-made pistol and one 22 bore rifle, one…
report in bdnews24.com, May 13, 2017 Ahmadiyya Muslim community chief Mobasherur Rahman has questioned the government sincerity in ensuring their security and said the attacks are unabated. He said at a media conference that the authorities do not act as fast when the Ahmadiyyas come under attack as they do in case of attacks on other religious minorities like the Hindus or the Buddhists. “Why is this discrimination?” he asked, speaking at the Ahmadiyya Muslim…
Report in Dhaka Tribune, May 12, 2017 at 08:27 PM BNP on Friday opposed Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda’s proposal for electronic voting machine (EVM) use in the next polls, saying it was an ill-motivated plan, reports UNB. “The Prime Minister’s son and one of her advisers a couple of days ago said the EVM will be used in the next parliamentary elections. The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) echoed the same yesterday (Thursday). The…
By Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 11, 2017 at 23:31 BdST Law Minister Annisul Huq has assured European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos of taking back illegal Bangladeshis living in parts of the world. Bangladesh will “do everything” for that, Huq said. They were meeting in Brussels where the law minister and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam are currently visiting, the foreign ministry said in a statement on…
report in bdnews24.com, May 11, 2017 a6 1742 hrs Rajshahi: Sazzad Hossain, the owner of a house used as a militant hideout in Rajshahi’s Godagari, was known as a Jamaat-e-Islami activist who later joined JMB at the banned outfit’s urging, according to local residents. Sazzad had built the house from tin and bamboo in Machmara Benipur village two months ago. JMB militants had sought refuge there in different times, the locals said. Local resident Abdul…
by Badrul Alam Liton in, bdnews24.com, May 11, 2017 Rajshahi: In an effort to thwart police in Rajshahi from storming their home possibly used as a militant hideout, five of a family have blown themselves up. Before setting off the suicide explosions on Thursday in Godgari Upazila, they launched an attack on police and fire service personnel, spearing a fireman to death, said police. As many as seven policemen were injured, said Godagari police OC…
Report in The Daily Star, May 10, 2017 The arrested attacker of the Mymensingh Ahmadiyya mosque imam yesterday claimed the attackers had no link with any political party and that no party or organisation helped them in carrying out the attack. Arrestee Abdul Ahad Mohammadullah, 20, was talking to reporters at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where he was undergoing treatment. Hailing from Charia village in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila, Ahad is a student of Sunnah Jamia…