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Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up a camp outside an historic graduation hall have left the area, saying the University of Cambridge has “agreed to negotiate”. The Cambridge for Palestine group set up tents last week outside King’s College and later moved to the lawn outside Senate House. The group, protesting against the war in Gaza, left Senate House Thursday….
US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser is holding talks in Israel as part of a new push to secure a ceasefire deal in Gaza. Jake Sullivan met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday afternoon. His visit comes as Israeli forces continue military operations in Gaza, including in the southernmost city of Rafah….
Over the years, different law enforcement agencies have arrested several ringleaders who had made and sold thousands of fake National Identity Cards (NIDs) and made a lot of money. These ringleaders have confessed to the law enforcers that their illegal business was made possible with the help of officials from different regional offices of government…
A team of Enforcement and Inspection Directorate of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), with the assistance of RAB-04, conducted an operation against the illegal sale and distribution of smart TV boxes and set-top boxes at Shah Ali Plaza Market in Mirpur and Elephant Road. During the operation, a total of 440 unauthorized and unapproved…
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained two commanders of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) and recovered a huge amount of local and foreign arms, including grenades and rocket cells during a raid on the hideout in the Ukhiya Hills of Cox’s Bazar. The detainees are Arsa commander Master Salimullah, 38, and his associate Md…
In the early hours of May 3, the lives of three Rohingya families were irreversibly altered. Their sons (pseudonyms), Zakir, 22, Rohmat Ali, 26, and Yunus, 31, were forcibly taken by armed individuals from near their shelter in the refugee camps of Bangladesh. This incident is part of a broader, sinister campaign by the Myanmar…
Two Bangladeshi youths have been allegedly abducted while catching crabs in the Naf river of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar. In this incident, the victim’s family filed a written complaint at the police station. The families of the two youths claimed that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) had abducted the young men. The abductees are…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is reviewing the ongoing anti-government movement involving various political parties. The party has been holding meetings the liaison committee since May 12, according to high-level sources within the party.In Saturday’s meeting, the liaison committee briefed all its stakeholder parties about the outcome of previous meeting, said a standing committee member…
Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said that US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu assured him that Washington would return the GSP facilities to Bangladeshi products if the government did some reforms in some areas. “He spoke with me about how to take the relationship forward in…
The whereabouts of Anwarul Azim Anar, member of parliament for the Jhenaidah-4 constituency and President of Kaliganj Upazila Awami League, are currently unknown. Family members and party activists cannot contact him MP Anar’s personal assistant, Abdur Rauf, said: “Anar went to India for medical treatment on May 11. He maintained contact with his family and…
