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Staff Correspondent The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said Thursday that last week’s troop rebellion at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters was a ‘grave conspiracy’ against the country’s nascent democracy. ‘It [the rebellion] was a big conspiracy against democracy. It is presumed initially that the rebellion was staged to embarrass and put the democratically elected government in ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The leader of the opposition in parliament, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday said conspiracies were on to divide the people amid a national crisis by spreading hatred and pitting one side against another. ‘Bangladesh is under attack. The attack is on country’s independence, sovereignty and national security and we must be united to repulse ... Read more

Another army officer’s body identified, BDR soldiers who did not return are now fugitives Staff Correspondent As the Operation Rebel Hunt enters the fourth day, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) started interrogating five BDR mutiny suspects including suspected ringleader Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Syed Towhidul Alam after

Mustafizur Rahman The government has initiated fresh moves to increase the facilities for Bangladesh Rifles personnel, official sources said. The authorities have also started lobbying to send BDR personnel on UN peacekeeping missions, according to the officials. The home ministry on Wednesday sent a letter to the finance ministry proposing an increase in monthly border ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday said the people who had spent Taka 20,000 crore in the name of power generation but did not generate a single megawatt of electricity during the regime of the BNP-led government must be tried for plunder of the money. ‘The company owned by the former prime ... Read more

UNB, Bogra RAB held father of a rebel BDR jawan and recovered cash and valuables, looted from BDR headquarters during the mutiny, worth about Tk 10 lakh, from Chalitabari Uttar Para in Sadar upazila Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-12 raided Bidu Para village in Sadar upazila at about 8pm Tuesday in ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The government has plans to set up civil and criminal courts at upazila headquarters again, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafique Ahmed said in parliament yesterday. In reply to a call attention notice from former president and Jatiya Party Chief HM Ershad, the law minister said, “There are some difficulties in reintroducing ... Read more

UNB, Chapainawabganj Bomb explosion on the premises of sadar thana in the frontier town left a police inspector’s son dead and two other children injured yesterday noon. Police said three children, two of them sons of two Assistant Sub Inspectors, were injured as a bomb went off inside the boundary of the Police Station in ... Read more

Probe begins; unexploded bombs found at the scene Afp, Lahore Pakistani officials said yesterday around two dozen people were detained over the ambush on Sri Lanka’s cricket team, which has raised new questions about the government’s war on militants. The detainees were being questioned as police widened the hunt for clues in Tuesday’s brazen attack, ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The security forces on Tuesday captured the prime suspect of the BDR soldiers’ rebellion and four of his associates as the investigation committees started functioning. The soldiers took up arms against their officers, from the army, in the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in the morning on February

3 others await DNA test; 5 army officers still missing; investigators rummage through BDR HQ for evidence Staff Correspondent Four more bodies of the BDR mutiny victims including an army officer were identified yesterday and the night before, bringing the number of missing officers down to five. Major Kazi Ashraf Hossain was identified by his ... Read more

Khadimul Islam The Election Commission is planning to defer the Dhaka City Corporation elections till the end of May or the first week of June, according to an election commissioner. The commission at a meeting on Tuesday in principle decided to defer the polls as the government is yet to respond to its proposal on ... Read more

6 cops among 8 killed; 7 cricketers injured Afp, Lahore Gunmen attacked Sri Lanka’s cricket team in a gun and grenade assault Tuesday in the Pakistani city of Lahore that killed eight people and wounded seven members of the squad. The attack sparked condemnation from around the world and threw a massive question mark over ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said conspiracy and evil designs are still being hatched after the bloody BDR mutiny in a bid to foil the country’s democracy, independence and sovereignty. “Perhaps, many did not like the end of the crises…so conspiracy and evil designs are still being hatched,” said the prime minister in ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday demanded the removal of the home minister in the interest of a fair and neutral investigation of the killing in the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters and slated limiting the terms of reference of the committee formed to investigate the incidents. ‘The government reconstituted the probe body dropping ... Read more

Staff Reporter Director, Military Operations, Brig Gen ATM Ziaul Hasan yesterday said no innocent person would be arrested during the ongoing Operation Rebel Hunt. “Operation Rebel Hunt is a self-explanatory term. It means to find out those who have mutinied. So, we will not arrest randomly,” he said while briefing journalists at the Army Headquarters. ... Read more

Army rights its BDR massacre list; death toll stands at 85; 40 officers rescued Julfikar Ali Manik After reviewing information about how many army officers were in fact inside the BDR Pilkhana headquarters during the last week’s bloody carnage, the army authorities yesterday revised the number of missing officers down