Rafiqul Islam

The current president of BCB, Aminul Islam Bulbul was removed by the country's National Sports Council (NSC), which formed an ad-hoc committee to run the day-to-day affairs till fresh elections are held.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the state government will carry out a Census for the five groups of Assamese-speaking Muslims of the state, who were officially recognized as indigenous by the state cabinet on Tuesday, and work for their socio-economic uplift.

In a decisive move for public safety, officials in Dhubri district apprehended local youth Rafiqul Islam on Saturday, seizing both a firearm and illegal drugs. For several months, Islam had instilled fear among residents, allegedly coercing them for money at gunpoint. His capture came as a result of information provided by one of his victims.

The border guarding forces of India and Bangladesh will discuss matters concerning infiltration, constructions within 150 yards of the international border and other issues during their four-day coordination conference.

"We had to fire teargas and rubber bullets to disperse them as they entered a police station and carried out extensive vandalism," Rafiqul Islam, the police official told Reuters, referring to protesters.

All the eight members of the Bangladesh-based radical Islamic group Ansar ul-Islam, a chapter of the All Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), arrested from lower Assam’s Barpeta district on Thursday, had illegally entered India in 2020 and were engaged in spreading jihadi literatures and

A city-based trader, who was reportedly abducted from Murshidabad last week, was rescued form the district on Wednesday evening.One person has been arrested in this connection.

Reacting sharply to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's remarks on "Madrasa", All India United Democratic Front MLA Rafiqul Islam on Thursday said he is "spewing hate to please RSS" as he "fears losing his position". Earlier on Sunday, Sarma had said the word "Madrasa" should cease to exist while stressing the "general education" in schools for all.

The two-volume edition, published by the Bangla Academy of Dhaka and the Bangladeshi government, has been jointly edited by Rafiqul Islam, the Bangladeshi linguist, and Pabitra Sarkar, the Bengali language expert from Kolkata.

Two youths were nabbed from a hotel in Malda on Thursday with fake currency worth Rs 5.84 lakh.

At least two top Bangladesh army officers, including a Major General, were killed on Monday after a military helicopter crashed in the country's central Tangail district, officials said.

Nine persons, including four kids and two women, were injured after crude bombs exploded during a Trinamool procession at Kripalpur in Basirhat on Saturday.

Around 920,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are banned from leaving barbed-wire camps in the southeast where they have been stuck for years. Most fled into Bangladesh after a military offensive in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 that the United States designated in March as genocide.

Reacting sharply to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s remarks on “Madrasa”, All India United Democratic Front MLA Rafiqul Islam on Thursday said he is “spewing hate to please RSS” as he “fears losing his position”.

As unruly driving creates chaos on the city roads, the district transport office has decided to train unemployed youths in commercial driving.

Veteran cricketer Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh is named in a murder case related to the death of Rubel Islam during protests in Dhaka. Filed by Rafiqul Islam, the case implicates former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and over 150 others. Shakib, currently on a Pakistan tour, was also an ex-parliament member.

The AIUDF has raised serious allegations against election officials, asserting that they incorrectly labeled voters operating beyond their home districts, or even from outside Assam, as deceased in the electoral rolls. Party representatives argue that this is a calculated move to skew election results, specifically targeting constituencies with uneven voting demographics, which could disenfranchise thousands of legitimate voters.