LOOKEAST REPORT A policeman was killed and several others injured in Molotov cocktail explosions near Sholakia ground in Bangladesh’s Kishoreganj town, just before prayers began at the country’s largest Eid congregation. Police constable Jahurul Haque, 30, succumbed to his burn wounds after blasts hit a gate at Azimuddin School, a kilometre away from the prayer…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK The Dhaka terror strike has stunned Bangladesh and raised hackles in India. But it falls into the broader pattern of jihadi violence that has afflicted Bangladesh for the last two years or more. On Saturday, the day after the evening terror attack and hostage crisis, an army of Bangladesh experts descended on Indian television channels…
Read moreForeign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has briefed Dhaka-based foreign diplomats and representatives of the international agencies on the terror attack that killed over 20 people, mostly foreigners. Officials say the briefing on Tuesday at the State Guest House Padma began with a minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims. Diplomatic security was the key…
Read moreOne of the five the Islamic State reportedly claimed to be the gunmen who launched Friday’s terror attack in Dhaka has been identified by an Awami League leader as Rohan Ibne Imtiaz, the son of another leader of the ruling party’s city unit. Rohan has been recognised as the son of SM Imtiaz Khan Babul,…
Read moreLOOKEAST DESK A Buddhist mob has reportedly set a mosque on fire in northern Myanmar in a fresh act of violence against Muslim minorities in the Southeast Asian country. A mob wielding weapons razed a Muslim prayer hall in northern Myanmar, the second attack on a mosque in just over a week as anti-Muslim sentiment swells…
Read moreBangladesh commandos have launched a fierce assault on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone of Gulshan early on Saturday to free the hostages holed up there since Friday night. 12 hostages have been freed, 5 terrorists killed and one captured by the security forces, an official of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) told…
Read moreSAMIR PURKAYASTHA Don’t turn forest into coffins — try bamboos for making them. That is what the leading youth group in India’s north-eastern state of Mizoram is asking the state’s majority Christian populace to do. Instead of using wood from forest which would mean hacking down trees like teak and sal, the Young Mizo Association (YMA) has tied up with the…
Read moreThe gunmen, who laid siege at a Dhaka restaurant have killed 20 hostages, says a spokesperson of the Bangladesh Army. “We have found 20 bodies and all of them were murdered in the night using sharp weapons,” Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury told a media briefing on Saturday. He said that 13 people, including a…
Read moreZHENGLI HUANG / XIANGMING CHEN “The US destroys and China builds,” was how a taxi driver from Ethiopia in Washington DC responded to Chen’s question about China’s main activity in Africa. Building is what China has been doing, on a massive scale, with projects of all kinds sited in African cities and spread across this…
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Election Commission of India has decided to deploy at least 480 companies of Central Forces in various troubled parts of West Bengal from March 1
