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2 weeks ago | 
thedailystar.net | Zyma Islam
Media Reform Commission report details 15 years of censorship and cronyism How did our media get to a place where censorship is rampant and media organisations pander to political parties? The Media Reform Commission found a key reason: 30 years of free passes to political allies to establish media organisations with dubious sources of funding.
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1 month ago | 
thedailystar.net | Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee |Zyma Islam
Finds govt probe; sector now controlled mostly by BNP-linked influentials A staggering Tk 2.21 crore is extorted daily from 53 transport terminals and stands in Dhaka city. The figure goes up to Tk 66.3 crore and sometimes Tk 80 crore per month, a government probe has found.
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1 month ago | 
thedailystar.net | Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee |Zyma Islam
Finds govt probe; sector now controlled mostly by BNP-linked influentials A staggering Tk 2.21 crore is extorted daily from 53 transport terminals and stands in Dhaka city. The figure goes up to Tk 66.3 crore and sometimes Tk 80 crore per month, a government probe has found.
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2 months ago | 
thedailystar.net | Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee |Zyma Islam
It took the Ansar members guarding the Gono Bhaban quite a few tries before they could locate the keys and unlock the main gate of what was the most strictly guarded citadel inside the capital until only six months back. Gone are the days when Special Security Force officers armed with assault rifles used to shoo away pedestrians trying to use the pavement flanking the thick boundary walls of the premises.
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2 months ago | 
thedailystar.net | Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee |Zyma Islam
Inside Gono Bhaban, a fallen dictator's palace It took the Ansar members guarding the Gono Bhaban quite a few tries before they could locate the keys and unlock the main gate of what was the most strictly guarded citadel inside the capital until only six months back. Gone are the days when Special Security Force officers armed with assault rifles used to shoo away pedestrians trying to use the pavement flanking the thick boundary walls of the premises.
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2 months ago | 
thedailystar.net | Zyma Islam
Some former army officials are planning to bring forth a political party in March under the coordination of Brig Gen (retd) Md Shamim Kamal. A good number of retired army officers, including lieutenant generals, major generals and brigadier generals, as well as some former BNP MPs, and also independent lawmakers who contested the 2024 election have already come together to this end, Shamim told The Daily Star.
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2 months ago | 
thedailystar.net | Zyma Islam
As the Bangladeshi embassy in Libya struggles to identify the bodies of the 23 migrants who have washed ashore in the northern part of the country, families back home are desperately searching for their missing loved ones. Some of the families have identified the bodies from photos that have been circulating among Libya-based migrant worker support groups. For example, Palash Miah's body was identified by his family from a photo that was posted.
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2 months ago | 
thedailystar.net | Zyma Islam
Says Bangladesh envoy; 23 bodies washed ashore, the rest still missing Twenty-three bodies, believed to be of Bangladeshis, have washed up on Libya's shores, with many more feared missing, Bangladeshi Ambassador to Libya Abul Hasnat Mohammad Khairul Bashar said in a Facebook live yesterday. "A group of 56 migrants left the shores of Libya on January 25. The boat ran aground trouble the same night," he said.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Zyma Islam
Financial statements of former MP Kazi Nabil Ahmed and his brothers' famed British tea enterprise offer a rare glance into how powerful people in Bangladesh take their money to the UK via Asia's business hubs. On April 12, 2024, Nabil and his brothers Kazi Anis Ahmed and Kazi Inam Ahmed, who control Gemcon Group which owns Kazi & Kazi Tea, told a hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice in London that they were the sole investors of a UK company.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Zyma Islam
If there is one thing that differentiates the arbitrary detention of HM Rana from the other victims of enforced disappearance, it is that he knows exactly where he was inside the Dhaka Cantonment. Almost every victim of enforced disappearance who came back alive said their eyes were blindfolded the entire time while they were being transported up until they were taken inside their cells, or interrogation rooms.
