Twitter messages to start your day with: TheTravlnAzn: A Minister present at Ambala during talks mentioned that they were aware of the problems in BDR, but didn’t see it as a threat. TheTravlnAzn: Also, there are still a number of missing people that were inside the BDR compound that firefighters spent all night looking...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
With nearly 50 people feared dead, the gunbattle at the BDR headquarters in Dhaka has come to an end after the government carried out negotiations with some of the rebellious soldiers. But now BBC is reporting the following: The mutiny by paramilitary troops in Bangladesh has spread to towns outside the capital, Dhaka, reports...
Read more »
Follow BDR Mutiny updates on Twitter http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=2&q1=dhaka&q2=bdr&q3=bangladesh
Read more »
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...
Read more »
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....
Read more »
Video streaming by Ustream
Read more »
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...
Read more »
Dear Readers, we suffered from a minor compromise in our server’s security. Many of the site’s features are now disabled, this is temporary and will be fixed ASAP. - The E-Bangladesh Team
Read more »
Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) is an intelligence agency in Bangladesh that manages to poke it’s nose in everything. Every government since its inception by Ziaur Rahman has abused it to gain an upper hand in the game of ruling Bangladesh. We saw the worst of its excess during the caretaker government–DGFI left...
Read more »
Less than a month is too early to dissect a government for anatomy, rather it makes sense to forward a chart of preventive and predictive maintenance to the driver of the vehicle on which the whole country is now riding on a precarious uphill journey with sky high confidence. The destination is a better...
Read more »
This year’s potato-farming has been hampered by the deficiency of ‘Urea’ fertilizer supply Photo: Shafiq Islam, DRIK News, Bogra One of major challenge for the present government of Bangladesh is to arrange all agricultural inputs to the farmers at affordable cost to help grow required food grains to achieve food autarky which Bangladesh also...
Read more »
Israel’s vow to escalate war activities in Gaza has so far left nearly 1000 Palestinians dead. The injured survivors are facing acute shortage of medical and food supplies. To protest against these atrocities Dhaka University War and Peace Department organized a human chain and brought out a protest rally in front of the Razu...
Read more »
