by Chaitanya Chandra Halder, Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, June 26, 2023The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of 37 more people in the much-talked about Tk 2,000 crore money laundering racket of Faridpur. The newly identified suspects include current and former leaders of the ruling Awami League in the district. The case was originally filed by the CID with Kafrul Police Station in June 2020 against Sajjad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz…
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by Ahmadul Hassan in Prothom Alo, Jun 26, 2023The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has identified 146 unprotected border points through which drugs are being smuggled into the country. Dangerous drugs, ice and yaba are being smuggled into the country from Myanmar through 66 land and river points while other traditional and non-traditional drugs, including heroin and phensedyl, are entering from India through other porous border points. These points are in 19 border districts. The…
by Ahmadul Hassan in Prothom Alo, Jun 26, 2023The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has identified 146 unprotected border points through which drugs are being smuggled into the country. Dangerous drugs, ice and yaba are being smuggled into the country from Myanmar through 66 land and river points while other traditional and non-traditional drugs, including heroin and phensedyl, are entering from India through other porous border points. These points are in 19 border districts. The…
by Rejaul Karim Byron in The Daily Star, June 25, 2023For the first time, no one took the opportunity to whiten black money to avail the government’s tax amnesty in the outgoing fiscal year. The government offered the tax break so that the money laundered out of the country is brought back by people, a finance ministry official said yesterday. Since independence, the government offered such tax amnesty on 21 occasions, and the opportunity was…
report in The Daily Star, June 25, 2023The number of minority population has not reduced by half under the Awami League-led government, but the policies leading towards a decline in minority population continues under this government, said Rana Dasgupta, general secretary of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad, yesterday. He made the remark refuting the claim made by six Congressmembers in a letter to the US president that the Hindu population has been halved since…
report in The Daily Star, June 25, 2023Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya aimed to launched an armed attack in Bangladesh to disrupt the country’s democratic system. To receive weapons training, members of the outfit sought refuge at the hideout of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), an armed group in the Chattogram Hill Tracts. When law enforcement agencies initiated a crackdown, the chief of KNF, Nathan Bom, suggested that they should surrender. However, the outfit’s chief,…
report in The Daily Star, June 24, 2023The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police arrested Shamin Mahfuj, founder of militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya, and his wife from the capital’s Demra last night. It also recovered a huge cache of explosives from the couple, said Md Asaduzzaman, chief of the CTTC. Leaders of three militant outfits formed Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya in 2019. Shamin, a former leader of outlawed…
report in Prothom Alo, 20 Jun 2023Every day 5-year-old Jannat hunts for bottles and cans in the Rohingya refugee camp where she lives in Bangladesh – when she collects enough, she buys a snack to stave off her hunger pangs. She is one of a growing number of children turning to garbage picking since the United Nations slashed rations for nearly 1 million Rohingya camp residents to just 9 cents a meal this month. The…
report in Prothom Alo, June 20, 2023BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday called upon neighbouring country India to make its position clear on the question of democracy in Bangladesh, reports UNB. Speaking at a human chain programme, he also asked Indian authorities to focus on building relations with the 18 crore people of Bangladesh, instead of some individuals and a particular party, indicating the ruling Awami League. “You don’t need to make us…
by Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, June 22, 2023Bangladesh’s move to join the BRICS can provide a boost to trade and investment in the post-LDC world but the authorities should be wary of any geopolitical traps, said experts. Since 2021, Bangladesh has been a member of the New Development Bank established by BRICS — an alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa since 2001 — as an alternative to the World Bank…
report in Prothom Alo, 22 June 2023BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said movement is the only way to establish a non-partisan government for holding the next national election in a credible manner, reports UNB. “There’s no alternative before the nation to carrying out a movement to force the current regime for holding the elections under a neutral government,” he said. Speaking at a seminar, the BNP leader said the entire nation…