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MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the home ministry to work with greater attention to root out drug abuse, terrorism, militancy, and corruption from the country as that is the necessity of time. “If we want to develop the country, we’ve to free it from drug abuse, terrorism, militancy, and corruption… I ask the officials working in this ministry (Home) to give a special attention to these matters,” she said. The Prime Minister said this in her introductory speech while holding a views-exchange meeting during her visit to the Home Ministry on Sunday. She said corruption has ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon IPU leaders to work together against all social disparities like poverty and malnutrition along with the vices of militancy and terrorism to make the world an abode of mutual compassion and fraternity. “We never see democracy as a system, as we term democracy as the carrier of human prosperity and ensuring security,” the prime minister said this at the inaugural event of the five-day 136th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the South Plaza of the Parliament. During her speech, Hasina urged the global community to stand up ...

MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stated that some people believe in an evil version of Islam, and it is they who demean our religion through militancy and terrorism. ‘Murder, attacks and bombing’ are especially prevalent in Muslim majority countries, said the prime minister at a conference of imams on Thursday. “It was in these countries that weapons were being mostly used.” “But who produces these weapons?” she said. “Who benefits? They shed the blood of Muslims. They turn Muslim countries into battlefields. Who sells the weapons? I urge you to think about it.” The prime minister was ...

MNA National Desk: A case was filed against eight suspected militants in connection with Saturday’s raid on a militant den at Ashkona of Dakhkhin Khan in the capital. The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit filed the case with Dakkhin Khan police station under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The accused militants include Jebunnahar Shila and fugitive militant Mainul Islam Musa’s wife ‘Trishna’, who surrendered during the raid. Slain militant Tanvir Qaderi’s teenaged son ‘Afif’ alias ‘Ador’ and fugitive militant Sumon’s wife ‘Shakira’ are among the accused in the case, police said. Earlier, two suspected militants, including a woman, were killed ...

MNA National Desk: Khaleda Zia, BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) chairperson, is set to meet and exchange views with intellectuals, journalists and professionals on Thursday evening over the current militant occurrences at Gulshan restaurant and Eid congregation at Sholakia. Sayrul Kabir Khan, BNP chief’s press wing member, confirmed that the meeting would be held at 8:00pm at chairperson’s Gulshan office. However the BNP chief already set on a meeting with its standing committee members on Wednesday at 8:00pm. After closing that meeting she also sat for another conference with its alliance’s leaders at the same place. The two attacks and significance ...

MNA National Desk: Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday advised all, counting parents, teachers and government officers, to remain watchful about the activities of their children to stop them from terror and crime occurrences. “The people of the country are pious, but not bigots. I simply cannot understand why the children of these pious people who are receiving education from reputed institutions, good schools and colleges, and English medium ones are turning bigots,” she said. Sheikh Hasina said that it essentials to be burrowed out how the criminals are misguiding students. “We don’t want these students to lay down ...

MNA National Desk: Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) coming on the field with series programs against the nationwide assassination, militancy and terrorism. Towards this goal, extended meetings and workshops have been organized with the heads of 109 organizational units by central committee of Chhatra League on June 12 and 13. The top former leaders will give directions to increase the dynamism of the organization at the extended meetings and workshops which will be held at Dhaka University Senate Building. Leaders from all district and city units will attend the meeting. The announcement was declared on Thursday at a press conference by ...