Report in The Daily Star, May 10, 2017 Dhaka: The government “compromised and surrendered to fundamentalist groups” by bringing changes in textbooks, limiting Pahela Baishakh celebrations and recognising the Dawra degree of Qawmi madrasa as equivalent to Master’s degree, said a joint statement from 408 noted personalities. The incidents hurt and frustrated the secular people of the country, said the statement, signed by Kamal Lohani, on Monday. Such an ominous competition to have the communal…
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By Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 8, 2017 at 23:55:44.0 BdST Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi has said Bangladesh’s friendship with India and China is not a “zero-sum” game, just the “opposite”. “It’s the relationship in which both of us gain,” he said, rejecting a media analysis that Bangladesh’s relations with China can be at the cost of India as “absolutely false”. Both countries are “absolutely centrally vital for us” and that the…
Bangabandhu killer’s relative tried to supply arms to militants By Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, May 8, 2017 at 11:45 PM Two suspected militants who were arrested in Ashulia on Sunday night were actually IED material suppliers for militant groups, said RAB sources. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed this. He added that RAB had learned that the two – Md Imran…
By Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, May 8, 2017 at 11:45 PM Two suspected militants who were arrested in Ashulia on Sunday night were actually IED material suppliers for militant groups, said RAB sources. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed this. He added that RAB had learned that the two – Md Imran Hossain alias Emran and Rafiqul Islam alias Junayed –…
By Ashraf Uddin Sijel in Dhaka Tribune, May 9, 2017 Mymensingh: The imam of an Ahmadiyya mosque in Mymensingh was critically injured after being hacked inside the mosque by a group of three men in a suspected militant attack Monday night. Imam Mostafizur Rahman, 35, of Khanpur mosque in Ishwarganj area was hacked by the assailants indiscriminately with sharp weapons inside the mosque around 9pm, after the end of Esha prayers. The attackers tried to…
By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in Daily Star, May 8, 2017 The BNP could curtail the power of the prime minister and strengthen the roles of lawmakers in parliament if voted to power in the next general election, party insiders claimed. The party thinks that the prime minister’s executive authority has given rise to a “form of autocratic practices within the democratic system”, and, hence, the premier’s power should be curtailed. If the BNP wins, it…
A police officer “narrowly escaped” from a suicide attacker at a “Neo JMB” hideout in Jhenidah’s Maheshpur upazila, as two suspected militants were killed and two policemen wounded during an operation there yesterday. “As I entered a room of the one-storey house where militants were holed up, one of them grabbed me. Soon I realised that a bomb was attached to his body,” Ahmed Kabir, officer-in-charge of Maheshpur Police Station, told The Daily Star. The…
by Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, May 5, 2017 Dhaka: Police probe into 58 cases filed over the May 5-6, 2013 Hefajat mayhem remain stalled as the investigators await further instructions from the government on the next course of action. A total of 83 cases were lodged in connection with the incident. Of them, 53 were filed in the capital against more than 50,000 people after members of Hefajat-e Islam, a Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist…
bdnews24.com, May 3, 2017 a 22:09:31.0 BdST Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said details of the defence deals and memoranda of understanding signed with different countries will be presented in Parliament once notices are received. The prime minister, in reply to an MP’s query in Parliament on Wednesday, mentioned names of several countries with which Bangladesh signed defence cooperation MoUs. “I can give all the details of deals signed with other nations if I wish…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, May 3, 2017 The banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team is regrouping outside Dhaka with a plan to again target bloggers in the country. The ABT Information Technology wing is trying to hack into the social media accounts of the bloggers and forward their details to the ABT military wing. The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police learned this information after arresting the ABT IT…
Dhaka: Police yesterday claimed to have arrested a close aide of Maj (sacked) Syed Ziaul Haq, the alleged military wing chief of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, in the capital’s Bhatara area. Ashfaq-Ur-Rahman alias Ayon, an IT expert, used to gather information on the targeted bloggers and track their whereabouts by hacking into their social media accounts, Monirul Islam, chief of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police,…