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New Zealand link to Bangladesh hardline forces

New Zealand’s spies are scooping up intelligence material on terrorists in Bangladesh and passing it to local security forces with a reputation for murder and torture, according to secret documents. The link between intelligence gathering by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and foreign security agencies, which engage in widespread killing and torture, has RABsparked concern among New Zealand’s Opposition politicians. The connection came in documents taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden when he walked out of his job as a contracto...

ATM booth robbed in Kushtia

A DBBL ATM booth was robbed in Kushtia early Tuesday. Police said that two robbers beat up security guards Kabir and Jamal and broke into dbbl-450x321the booth at Panchrasta intersection around 1:30am on Tuesday. They vandalized 10 close circuit TV cameras and other equipment at the booth. DBBL Fast Track official Mohammad Selim said there was Tk 318,400 in the cash box and the entire amount was robbed. DBBL Kushtia branch manager Nazrul Islam said a case was being filed.

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City polls: Women empowerment campaigners shocked

Absence of women from the mayoral race in Dhaka South City, Dhaka North City and the port city of Chittagong shocked women empowerment campaigners. They were equally shocked to find few women contesting for 134 common seats of ward councilors in the three cities. city pollsThe Election Commission records show that in Dhaka South City out of 386 councilor candidates only six are women, reports the New Age. In Dhaka North City out of 280 candidates contesting for the common seats only 12 are women. In Chittagong out of 213 councilor candidat...

BJP mulls keeping Assam out of LBA

BJP’s electoral ambitions may force a major change in a landmark diplomatic initiative being pursued by the Modi government. bd-indiaBJP brass considers Assam, a major Northeastern state that goes to polls next year, a winning prospect and these poll calculations may result in delinking Assam from the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh for now, reports Economic Times (ET). ET spoke to several senior officials as well as BJP leaders for this report. Questions to the PMO didn’t receive any response. Officials and politicians who spok...

Gender equality comes on the airwaves

Judging by how often they make headlines, one might be tempted to believe that women in Bangladesh don’t play a major role in this country’s affairs. A recent media monitoring survey by the non-governmental radioorganisation Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS) revealed that out of 3,361 news items studied over a two-month period, “Only 16 percent of newspaper stories, 14 percent of television news [items], and 20 percent of radio news [items] considered women as subjects or interviewed them.” “Most of our audience are poor and they either don’...

Mystery has opposition on edge in Bangladesh

A jittery silence has fallen over the street where Salahuddin Ahmed, a top official of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is believed to have been abducted a month ago. The caretaker who opened the compound gate to a group of men, and told several journalists they identified themselves as police detectives, can no longer be found, friends on the street say. Neither can the maid who opened the door to the apartment. The owner of Khaleda Ziathe apartment, the deputy managing director of a bank, is also unreachable. “Of course...
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