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Bangladesh tightens security for New Year’s eve

by Naim-Ul-Karim, Shariful Islam DHAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Authorities in Bangladesh have tightened security in capital Dhaka for New Year’s eve in the wake of a rising tide of militancy. Thousands of Bangladeshi police and anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been deployed in capital Dhaka to maintain law and order. The […]

Law enforcers flood streets in preparation for Bangladesh’s maiden partisan local polls

by Naim–Ul–Karim DHAKA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Security has been heightened across Bangladesh in preparation for the country’s first-ever local body polls on party line nomination slated for Wednesday. A large number of law enforcers have been sighted in streets of 234 municipalities across the country. Hundreds of candidates are contesting in the polls for […]

Bangladeshi former PM reiterates demand for army supervision for local body polls

reiterates demand for army supervision for local body polls DHAKA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Monday once again called for the deployment of the army to supervise the local body polls. While addressing a press conference, Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), alleged that Prime […]

Christians celebrate Christmas, Muslims mark Miladunnabi in tight security

DHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The Christian community in Bangladesh on Friday celebrated the festival of Christmas while Muslims marked Eid-e-Miladunnabi with great fervor amid tight security across the country, reports Xinhua. The Christmas festivities started with prayers and other rituals at midnight in all the churches and continued till morning in around 3,000 churches […]

Attack on Bangladesh’s Ahmadiyya mosque leaves 1 dead

DHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — A bomb attack on worshipers at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in a western Bangladeshi district has killed at least one people and wounded three more, reports Xinhua The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital […]

Islamabad cites “harassment” reason for withdrawal of diplomat from Bangladesh

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan has withdrawn one of its diplomats from Bangladesh after “harassment,” the foreign ministry said on Thursday, reports Xinhua. “Miss Farina Arshad, second secretary at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka, was constantly being harassed by the Bangladeshi authorities,” a foreign ministry statement said. “The government of Pakistan twice summoned […]

Bangladeshi law enforcers raid militants’ hideout arresting 7 with huge explosives, grenades

DHAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi law enforcers Thursday conducted a raid on a hideout of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and arrested seven suspected militants with huge explosives and grenades in capital Dhaka. Lots of communication equipments and jihadi books were seized during the raid in an apartment in Dhaka‘s downtown Mirpur […]

Junta leader writes new song, leaving Thais to face the music

BANGKOK, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Thailand’s junta leader released the lyrics to a new patriotic ballad on Tuesday, the second song he has written since seizing power in 2014, reports reuters. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief led the May 2014 coup, first wrote the song “Return Happiness to Thailand”, which is played […]

Human Rights Groups Ask U.S. to Grant Asylum to Bangladesh Bloggers

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — A coalition of human rights groups called on the United States on Monday to grant temporary visas to secular writers from Bangladesh after a series of bloody attacks by Islamist militants, reports Reuters. Five bloggers and a publisher were killed by Islamists in Bangladesh this year, including an American citizen […]