Author: Asian Bangla

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has detected cases of money laundering involving Tk 4,000 crore and is carrying out a thorough probe into it, Bangladesh Bank Deputy Governor Abu Hena Mohd Razee Hassan said yesterday. Information on the irregularities has already been sent to the government agencies concerned for taking necessary steps, he said. “The issue of money laundering is being taken care of properly,” said the BB official at a programme for announcing the monetary policy for July-December at the BB headquarters. The deposits of Bangladeshis in various Swiss banks dropped recently as the central bank has been…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : Students have taken to the streets for the fourth day in a row, chanting slogans and demanding justice for the deaths of two of their fellows on Airport Road last Sunday. Hundreds of students blocked different roads in Dhaka including Sceience Lab intersection, Mirpur 10 and Kazi Nazrul Islam avenue. Science Lab: Students of Dhaka City College, Ideal College, Dhaka College and others blockaded Science Lab intersection around 11:30am. Mirpur 10: Around 500 students of various schools and colleges from the Mirpur area also brought out a procession at Mirpur 10 and rallied around the main roads carrying…

Asianbangla Desk : Heated debates over stripping around 40 lakh people in Assam of citizenship continued for the second day yesterday with the opposition parties accusing the government of politicising the issue and making people refugees in their own country. The ruling BJP came down heavily on the oppositions, asking whether they wanted rights of the people of Assam and India or to save “illegal infiltrators”, reported the Hindustan Times. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee warned that the issue may trigger a bloodbath or civil war. “They [BJP] are trying to divide the people. The situation cannot be tolerated.…

Asianbangla Desk : The Sundarbans mangrove forest, the habitat of Bengal tigers, is threatened by heedless industrialisation, which must be halted by Bangladesh. UN expert John H Knox said this yesterday in his last public statement as the special rapporteur on human rights and the environment. The statement was shared on the website of United Nations Human Rights. “The accelerating industrialisation of the Sundarbans threatens not only this unique ecosystem – which hosts Bengal tigers, Ganges river dolphins and other endangered species – but also poses serious risks to the human rights of the 6.5 million people whose lives, health, housing,…

Asianbangla, Dhaka : The election result that put the BNP mayoral hopeful ahead of the Awami League contestant in the Sylhet city polls came as a “surprise” to the party high-ups as they had feared the ruling party would take away all the three mayoral posts through irregularities. Some AL leaders, however, said the Sylhet result is frustrating and it gives a signal that BNP-Jamaat men infiltrated into the party and they might betray it in the national polls. BNP leaders say Rajshahi and Barisal had long been their strongholds but they lost those to the AL. The vote margins proved…

Asianbangla, Sylhet : Three journalists were assaulted by activists of Awami League and its student wing BCL yesterday and another one was allegedly beaten up by police, while they were covering the city corporation polls in Sylhet. Masuk Hridoy and Dwoha Chowdhury from The Daily Star were assaulted at Jamia Modinatul Ulum Darussalam Madrasa polling centre while Misbah Uddin from the Bangla daily Prothom Alo was assaulted at Dorga Gate Government Primary School centre. Meanwhile, police beat up Abdullah Al Bappi, a photojournalist of Daily Naya Diganta, when he tried to take pictures of people casting their votes at Shahjalal…

Asianbangla, Dhaka: The ruling Awami League’s mayoral candidates won big in two city corporations and the BNP contender was leading in one in yesterday’s battle of ballots, marred by widespread electoral irregularities. In Barisal, the BNP and four other parties boycotted the polls, alleging ballot stuffing and ousting of their polling agents by the ruling party men. The polls in Sylhet were rejected by the BNP and two other parties on the same grounds. They demanded a re-election. In Rajshahi, the BNP mayoral candidate refused to cast his vote citing his frustration. The common picture of the three cities was…

Asianbangla Desk : Damage is seen following an earthquake in Lombok, Indonesia, July 29, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. Lalu Onank/Social Media via Reuters Damage is seen following an earthquake in Lombok, Indonesia, July 29, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. Lalu Onank/Social Media via Reuters A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 14 people and sending villagers fleeing from their beds into open fields to avoid collapsing buildings. The quake, which rocked the island early in the morning when many people were still asleep,…

Asianbangla Desk : Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif, jailed earlier this month over graft charges, has fallen sick inside prison and is being moved to hospital, a minister said Sunday. Sharif and his daughter were jailed on July 13 after a graft court sentenced them to 10 and seven years respectively over properties in Britain which emerged in the wake of Panama Papers revelations. Caretaker home minister for Punjab province Shaukat Javed said on state-run Pakistan Television that doctors had advised his transfer to hospital after an electrocardiogram had shown “variations”. “How many days he stays in hospital depends on…

Asianbangla Desk : Cambodia’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said yesterday that it had won a general election that rights groups said was neither free nor fair due to voter intimidation and the absence of any significant challenger to Prime Minister Hun Sen. With no real opposition to speak of, Hun Sen was widely expected to win. But the election was widely criticized as a sham because of a campaign of intimidation by Hun Sen and his allies against critics and the dissolution of the main opposition last year. CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said the party won an estimated 100…