The Daily Star reports * BDR surrendered weapon after Prime Minister gave ultimatum in her speech * Police took control of BDR headquarters at 6:40 Bangladesh local time without being challenged. * 12 bodies found; 29 officers rescued * No one could trace the Director General of BDR Shakil Ahmed, his wife and around...
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A fresh day but the mutiny situation is still volatile in BDR headquarters at Peelkhana in Dhaka. The first batch of surrender of arms went on till 4AM in the morning. But the second batch did not start. There are reports of gunfire and unrests in BDR camps across the country. These have reached...
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First of all check my roundup in Global Voices Online. The Daily Star interviewed some rebel BDR personnel to learn how it all started: The DG raised before the Prime Minister only two demands of the army officers in BDR but none of the demands of the lower tier personnel. This intensified our grievance....
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Updates: According to RTV DG of BDR shoot one BDR Jawan in the morning and he was spot dead. Reason is that he was asking for accountability of the Dal Bhat project. Now some backgrounds of this project. In March 2007 BDR started its project Dal Bhat to sell rice, vegetables and other commodities...
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In a few hours time 81 million Bangladeshi voters (51% women) will go to vote for the ninth parliamentary election. The election is crucial for the nation as it will bring the country back into the track of democracy after two years of emergency rule of an interim government backed by armed forces. We...
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Bangladesh goes into poll on December 29, 2008 for a much awaited parliamentary election. The scenario is lot different than the recent US presidential election where citizen media and Internet campaigning and fund raising were extensively used. With a penetration of 1% of the total population of 145 million, Internet is still not a...
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On the 1st of November four drilling ships from Myanmar started exploration for oil and gas reserves within 50 nautical miles south west of St. Martins Island, in Bangladesh. A South Korean company was awarded the oil and gas exploration contract in that place and two Myanmar naval ships escorted the drilling ships. Three...
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"Its not only for Lalon but a cursed event for the whole nation. The nation is being completely harassed by some people in religious cloths. Our government is silent. The people with conscience are dead."
Journalist Jahangir Alam Akash reminds that the country is under state of of emergency. However these (fundamentalists) are given...
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The world came to know about the horror only a couple of days ago that the powdered milk products produced by the Sanlu Group in China were contaminated by melamine after hundreds of Chinese babies were hospitalized for having kidney stones and some had kidney failures. On 11th of September Sanlu first defended that...
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