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Law enforcers on Thursday recover 700 capacitors from a house at Basabo in Dhaka. The house was rented by the youngest brother of the absconding mastermind of the countrywide
bomb blasts of August 17.
— NEW AGE PHOTO
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PM for new
anti-bombing law
The prime minister, Khaleda Zia, believes the country needs a new, stringent law against bomb attacks and the production and storage of explosives and accessories. ‘I propose the enactment of a stringent law against bombing attacks, and the production and storage of bombs and accessories,’ she said when addressing Jatiya Sangsad during the first sitting of its 18th session on
Thursday...[ + ]
Huge stock of
bomb-making
materials recovered
The police in its widened dragnet across the country Thursday recovered a huge stock of explosives and bomb making materials from a house in the capital rented by the youngest brother of the absconding mastermind of the August 17 bombings...[ + ]
RAB rules violate
existing laws
Human rights lawyers have questioned the legality of the Rapid Action Battalion’s rules that the government has made, empowering the elite force to try its unruly members for a number of offences in a fashion almost identical to that of courts martial...[ + ]
Islamist group splits
over Ahmadiyya
hate campaign
The International Khatme Nabuwat Movement on Thursday split up over carrying out their hate campaign against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community...
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