Bangladesh

The elite police unit said on Wednesday they have arrested five activists of al-Ansar (HuJI), including its chief coordinator Md Rashidul Alam. The arrests were made during an overnight raid at Dhaka’s Hazaribagh. In another related development, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday morning that they had arrested 14 activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing from a ground-floor apartment in the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the nation to be vocal against the culprits defaming Islam before the whole world through killing innocent people. “Those undermining our holy religion getting derailed from the right path, I urge the whole nation to be vocal against them,” she said. The Prime Minister made the plea while inaugurating the hajj programme for ...

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday gave a 19-point directive to the deputy commissioners (DCs) of the country while inaugurating the four-day annual DC conference at the International Conference Centre of the Prime Minister’s Office in the capital.   The directives are:   They will have to discharge their responsibilities with more carefully and strictly in maintaining peace, ...

Most of the nine militants killed in Tuesday’s raid were shot in the back, says the doctor who performed the autopsies. “We have found six to seven bullet wounds on each of the bodies. They died of bleeding and injuries on their heads,” said Sohel Mahmud of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s forensic department. “Most of them were shot in ...

    Police have released the photos of the suspected militants who have been killed in a raid on a house at Dhaka’s Kalyanpur. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) published the photos (Parental guidance is advised for juveniles to see the photo of bloodied bodies) in their Facebook page on Tuesday evening. They urged the people to message information on the persons in ...

President Abdul Hamid on Monday asked the authorities of the country’s universities to remain alert so that their students do not get involved in terrorist and militant activities. He also advised the authorities to increase students counseling aimed at refraining them from engaging in anti-social activities. The President, also the Chancellor of country’s all universities, gave the directive when newly ...

  Apparently stepping back from the debate over IS presence in Bangladesh, the United States has said the recent acts of terrorism in various countries “have been homegrown” and they have the same views with Bangladesh government over recent attacks here.   “So, I don’t think we’ve a difference in the way we view your government’s view of what’s happening ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today strongly condemned the dastardly shooting incident in Munich, Germany that killed nine young innocent lives and left many more injured.   “I am deeply shocked and grieved by the shooting incident in Munich and I, along with the people and the government of Bangladesh, strongly condemn this horrific act of violence and stand in solidarity ...

  Terming the present Awami League government journalist and mass media friendly, Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu today said the present administration led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes in the freedom of press.   The information minister said this while replying to a written question of treasury bench member Nurul Islam Omar in the Jatiya Sangsad.   He said ...

The hearing of a petition by war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali to review his death sentence has been deferred. A four-member bench headed by chief justice SK Sinha fixed Aug 24 to hear the matter after today’s hearing. The Supreme Court’s order came on Monday after it accepted the defence counsel’s plea for more time. Earlier on June 21, ...