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Reuters report in Prothom Alo, Apr 26, 2017 Dhaka : China offered on Tuesday to help tackle a diplomatic row between Bangladesh and Myanmar over the flight of minority Rohingyas, two Bangladesh foreign ministry officials said. Around 69,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar since October, straining relations between the two neighbours who each see the stateless Muslim minority as the other nation’s problem. Chinese special envoy Sun Guoxiang, beginning…

Report on bdnews24.com, Apr 26, 2017 The China Building Materials Federation has presented a plan to Bangladesh Investment Development Board (BIDA) offering $2 billion investment in the sector. BIDA says a 12-strong delegation met its Executive Chairman Kazi M Aminul Islam on Tuesday and expressed their interest. The chairman said they would get ‘one stop service’ in Dhaka. The Chinese side gave a proposal on ‘Cooperation Proposal for China-Bangladesh Building Material Upgrade Project and the…

by Mahadi Al Hasnat in Dhaka Tribune, April 25, 2017 Bobby Hajjaj on Monday publicly launched his political party, the Nationalist Democratic Movement (NDM). The party was launched at the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh with party Chairman Bobby Hajjaj and its Secretary General Prof Abdullah Mohammad Taher and other NDM leaders. During the launch Bobby said the reason why he formed a new political party was because he felt all the parties lacked accountability and…

Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com, Apr 25 In an effort to revive the party’s fortunes before the next parliament polls, the BNP has designated 51 leaders of its central body to travel across the country to revamp its organisation. These leaders will be heading as many teams to cover every corner of the country, senior leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told the media on Monday. “They will hold rallies with party activists in every district. They would discuss…

Report in Prothom Alo, Apr 25, 2017 China’s special envoy on Asian Affairs Sun Guoxiang is now in the city on a three-day visit to discuss Myanmar issues with Bangladesh, reports news agency UNB. Bangladesh wants Sun Guoxiang to go to Cox’s Bazar and see the Rohingya situation there to get a better understanding, diplomatic sources said. The Chinese envoy is likely to hold talks with foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque and other officials on…

Report in The Daily Star online, Apr 22, 2017 at 10.36am Police today recovered at least 17 large plastic containers of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used to make bombs, from the suspected Neo JMB militant hideout in Jhenidah Sadar upazila. The chemical containers were seen brought out from a house at Porahati village by rickshaw-vans, our Jhenidah correspondent reports quoting Deputy Inspector General of Khulna range Didar Ahmed. The recovery was made after members of…

By Avia Nahreen in The Daily Star, Apr 21, 2017 The writer is a Senior Research Associate at The Institute for Policy, Advocacy, and Governance (IPAG). The visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Bangladesh on October 14-15, 2016 had been dubbed as a ‘historical state visit’ poised to be a geopolitical game changer in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. At the sidelines of Xi’s visit, Bangladeshi and Chinese firms signed USD 13.6…

Dhaka Tribune, apr 21, 2017 Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat is to visit Dhaka again on April 27, to upgrade the bilateral defence relationship. This is the second time Rawat is visiting Dhaka in a month, reports the Times of India. The visit follows Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina trip to India from Apr 7 to 10 when both sides signed agreements to strengthen defence relations. According to the report, the Indian Army chief will…

Report in Dhaka Tribune, April 19, 2017 at 08:56 PM The massive US bomb dropped on an Islamic State cave complex in Afghanistan last week killed militant fighters from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, India, and other countries, an Afghan official said, reports a German news agency dpa International and an Afghan radio channel Radio Azadi. “Most militants killed in the attack were from Pakistan, India, Philippines, and Bangladesh,” Mohammad Radmanish, a spokesman for the…

Report in The Daily Star, April 20, 2017 Cybercriminal gang Lazarus group carried out the $81 million Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, not the other groups named since the February 2016 incident, according to a top researcher of cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab. Vitaly Kamluk, director of the Moscow-based company’s global research and analysis team for the Asia Pacific region, said: “We’re pretty sure it was the work of Lazarus group.” The researcher made the remarks…