by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla/ Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, Aug 2, 2023Myanmar may take back the Rohingyas living in the Cox’s Bazar camps to their own villages in North Maungdaw and nearby places instead of any camps or model villages. Such an indication was communicated to Bangladesh by the Chinese Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Deng Xijun during his meetings with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Monday,…
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report in The Daily Star, Aug 2, 2023China hopes that its military will strengthen cooperation and deepen friendship with Bangladesh armed forces for maintaining world peace. “Guided by the consensus reached by top leaders of China and Bangladesh, both militaries will continually strengthen solidarity and cooperation on the basis of the already fruitful results,” said a Chinese embassy statement marking the 96th founding anniversary of People’s Liberation Army of China. The Chinese embassy in Dhaka…
report in The Daily Star, Aug 1, 2023The ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday decided to face on the streets the BNP and like-minded parties who have waged a movement to unseat the government. The decision came at a meeting of the 14-party combine at its spokesperson Amir Hossain Amu’s residence in the capital’s Eskaton. The allies will take to the streets under the alliance’s and their own banners in support of the government from…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Jul 31, 2023As long as it faced no street confrontation, BNP saw a huge success in its recent anti-government demonstrations. But because of the way Saturday’s sit-ins played out, the party high-ups are considering taking a step back from capital-centric anti-government programmes for now. According to some senior BNP leaders, programmes like sit-ins right after a mammoth rally were called too early. They said their Saturday’s demonstrations…
report in The Daily Star, Jul 31, 2023An editor and a reporter have been sued under the Digital Security Act in Savar today. Nazmus Sakib, the editor of Dainik Fulki and president of Savar Press Club, and Emdadul Haque, a reporter of daily Amader Notun Somoy, have been accused in the case filed by Shahinur Islam, a resident of Shyampur in Birulia Union of Savar. According to the complaint, the Fulki on July 27 published…
report in The Daily Star, Jul 31, 2023An editor and a reporter have been sued under the Digital Security Act in Savar today. Nazmus Sakib, the editor of Dainik Fulki and president of Savar Press Club, and Emdadul Haque, a reporter of daily Amader Notun Somoy, have been accused in the case filed by Shahinur Islam, a resident of Shyampur in Birulia Union of Savar. According to the complaint, the Fulki on July 27 published…
by Dipankar Roy in The Daily Star, Jul 31, 2023When she is supposed to be at football practice, she is tossing and turning in a hospital bed with a bandaged head. Mangali Bagchi, an under-17 footballer of the Khulna divisional team, and some of her teammates were attacked by a group of people on Saturday afternoon..The reason: They wear shorts and play football. As Mangali lay in her bed on the third floor of Batiaghata…
AFP report, July 30, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse stone-throwing crowds blockading major roads in the capital Dhaka on Saturday in the latest protest demanding the prime minister’s resignation. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies have staged a series of protests since last year demanding Sheikh Hasina step down and allow a caretaker government to oversee elections due next January. Clashes erupted in several locations when…
report on The Daily Star online, July 29, 2023 at 09.52 pmThe BNP will hold rallies in districts and cities across the country on July 31 protesting the “attacks” by police and ruling Awami League men on BNP’s sit-in programme. “We planned to hold the programme tomorrow, Sunday. However, the Awami League has already declared its programme on that day. Therefore, we are now announcing our programme for Monday. We decided not to create a…
report on The Daily Star online, July 29, 2023 at 05.59pmIt was almost like a “joint operation” in Uttara in the capital today when police and ruling party leaders and activists attacked BNP supporters, leaving several injured. Witnesses said the BNP men were mostly unarmed at that time. According to witnesses, the AL men first took position in sector-8 area near Abdullahpur around 10:30am where a large number of law enforcers were already in place.…
by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, July 28, 2023BNP is finally holding its grand rally at Naya Paltan of the capital on Friday. BNP feels that the two days of tensions regarding permission for the rally venue, arrest of many of its leaders, raids on houses and hotels, have made this rally in the final stages of the ‘one-point’ movement a matter of its ‘image’. According to the responsible sources of BNP, the announcement of…