Focus more on deradicalising ex-militants, increasing surveillance
Abu Jafar’s family was sure that he had been living in the Maldives for the last three years. He last visited Bangladesh in 2019 and left home saying he was going to the Maldives.
Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya posed a bigger security threat than any militant outfit ever did, law enforcers said.
The Lalmonirhat’s house of Abu Siddiq Sohel, one of the two militant convicts on death row who escaped from a Dhaka court premises yesterday, is under lock and key..Since this morning, Sohel’s neighbours in Kumrihat Bheteshwar village in Aditmari upazila have started calling his house “Jon
There's no room for complacency when it comes to militancy
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed deep concerns about the worsening religious freedom conditions in Bangladesh and other South Asian countries.
Speakers at a conference say the state has to take responsibility of ensuring that the youths do not get derailed by extremism and militancy.
Describing militancy, terrorism, corruption and narcotics as wounds of society, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon all to put up resistance unitedly against these menaces.
Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary asks all to stay away from militancy and drug abuse to build a prosperous Bangladesh.
Reiterating her firm vow not to give any room to terrorism and militancy on the soil of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says no one would be allowed to play with the fate of the country in the name of militancy as long as she is alive.
Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.
The government has taken initiative to form a “media monitoring centre” to monitor news items published in different media, the information minister tells the parliament.
A Dhaka court has placed five alleged militants, who were deported from Singapore, on seven-day remand each in connection with a case filed under the anti-terrorism act.
Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with plans for an extremist group and began recruiting his countrymen.
A group of hackers linked to Islamic State has posted online a list of thousands of New York residents and urged followers of the militant group to target them, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
Reiterating that there is no presence of Islamic State in the country, Bangladesh home minister terms IS claim of today’s murder of a Hindu tailor in Tangail as baseless.
Bike-riding assailants stab dead a middle-aged Hindu tailor in Tangail. Hours later, US-based SITE Intelligence Group tweet that international militant outfit Islamic State have claimed credit for the murder saying that he blasphemed Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
BNP says it is ready to cooperate the government with its experience in combating militancy in the country.
The government is to launch a new initiative to get leaders of all religions together and speak against militancy and try to boost religious harmony, said police sources.
