Singapore
Singaporean Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff, 44, detained under ISA for promoting violence and ISIS, radicalising others
A Singaporean who actively spread radical ideology online and helped radicalise at least two other citizens is detained under the Internal Security Act in Singapore.
30 July 2016
Drone seized at Dhaka airport
Custom intelligence seize a drone at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka due to a ban on its import.
26 July 2016
Singapore plane catches fire on runway
A Singapore Airlines plane bound for Milan catches fire shortly after making an emergency landing.
27 June 2016
Bangladeshi paralysed in work accident gets $600,000
A Bangladeshi construction worker paralysed after a worksite accident is awarded about $600,000 in damages and costs.
18 June 2016
Light pollution 'affects 80% of global population'
More than 80% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies, a study suggests.
12 June 2016
4 Bangladeshis convicted in Singapore
A Singapore court yesterday convicted four Bangladeshi workers, detained in Singapore under the Internal Security Act (ISA), of financing terrorism.
31 May 2016
Six Bangladeshis charged with terror financing
A Singapore court yesterday charged six Bangladeshi workers with terror financing, over a month after they were arrested on the
27 May 2016
6 Bangladeshis charged in Singapore with financing terrorism
Six Bangladeshi workers detained in Singapore last month are charged with financing terrorism. Their goal was to set up an Islamic State in Bangladesh and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the IS in Iraq and Syria.
27 May 2016
How Islamic State in Bangladesh began
Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.
5 May 2016
'They formed cell, met in parks, shared radical contents'
The eight Bangladeshi workers held recently in Singapore had allegedly formed an “Islamist” cell that met in parks and other
4 May 2016
5 ‘militants’ deported from Singapore remanded
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.
4 May 2016
ISA detentions: Bangladesh must have zero tolerance for terror, says Bangladesh envoy in Singapore
The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore has urged his compatriots here to report their peers if they suspect them to be extremists.
4 May 2016
Terror cell 'unfazed' by earlier arrests
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.
4 May 2016
8 Bangladeshis held in Singapore for plotting attacks back home
Singapore says it has arrested eight Bangladeshi workers, who were planning to stage terror attacks back home. The country’s home ministry releases a kill-list found with them, which include MPs, ministers and media personnel. Meanwhile, in Dhaka, cops arrest five other Bangladeshi nationals, who were repatriated from Singapore after the authorities found that they possessed and/or proliferated jihadi-related materials, or supported the use of armed violence.
3 May 2016
Singapore releases kill-list found with Bangladeshis
Members of the so-called Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB), formed in Singapore in March, have identified several possible targets in Bangladesh, which include lawmakers, ministers, and media personnel, a kill-list released by the country’s home ministry shows.
3 May 2016
Gold worth Tk 1.25cr seized at Dhaka airport
The preventive team of Dhaka Customs House seizes six gold bars, weighing 2.5 kilograms, from a plane at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital.
11 March 2016
Singapore 'still world's most expensive city'
Singapore has again been judged as the world's most expensive city but costs across the world have been highly volatile, according to researchers.
10 March 2016
Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal signed in Auckland
The Trans Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest multinational trade deals ever, is signed by ministers from its 12 member nations in New Zealand.
4 February 2016
Fakhrul flies to Singapore for treatment
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir flies to Singapore for a regular health check up. He will check his health at National University Hospital of that country.
28 January 2016
The real face of Bangladesh - moderate, secular
The high-profile arrests and deportation of 27 Bangladeshi workers from Singapore for planning violent attacks overseas may have caused some Singaporeans to wonder about Bangladesh and its people. The truth is that the country is a secular, moderate nation with a Muslim-majority population.
25 January 2016