Police arrest Ansarullah terrorists from Sitakunda in Bangladesh’s Chittagong The outfit is blamed for the spree of murders in the country Close on the heels of the Gulshan and Sholakia terror attacks, police have arrested 4 members of the dreaded Ansarullah B Team from Sitakunda in Chittagong. Although the JMB has been blamed for the the…
Read moreBangladesh government on Sunday banned the broadcasting of Mumbai based controversial preacher Zakir Naik ‘s Peace TV channel after reports that his “provocative” speeches inspired some of the militants who carried out the country’s worst terror attack at a cafe. The decision to ban the ‘Peace TV Bangla’ was taken during a special meeting of Cabinet Committee…
Read moreA new video has surfaced on the Internet of three Bangla-speaking men praising the gunmen who carried out the deadly attack on a Gulshan cafe. The video released in a SITE Intelligence site is said to have been shot in Raqqah, the so-called capital of the Islamic State in Syria. The message containing threats has…
Read moreLOOKEAST 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…
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