(1) Eight members of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), including a senior cleric who is said to have founded the Islamist group, were convicted late last year for the murder of atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in February 2013.
(2) British jihadis in Bangladesh fanning flames of extremism, says Dhaka Read more The list was issued in a statement on the internet by the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a group that has been blamed for a series of murders of bloggers and activists in Bangladesh over the last 18 months.
(3) Police arrested members of a banned group called Ansarullah Bangla Team over those murders, but none has yet been prosecuted.
(4) K Anis Ahmed, publisher of the Dhaka Tribune and the Bangla Tribune, is the author of fiction works The World in My Hands and Good Night, Mr Kissinger
(5) Yet instead of crushing them, the government was keen on appeasing them by arresting secular bloggers.” Noman said police were investigating a tweet by the pro-Islamist group Ansar Bangla Seven that appeared to celebrate Roy’s murder.
(6) As a schoolboy, Moudud wet his shirt with the blood of a young man killed demonstrating against the imposition of "Urdu and only Urdu" as the official language of Bangla-speaking East Pakistan .
(7) The suspects, Saad al-Nahian and Masud Rana, are members of the banned hardline Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla Team.
(8) One of the most magnificent 20th-century architectural monuments in the world ... the parliament building at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar The parliament building in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar is arguably one of the most magnificent 20th-century architectural monuments in the world.
(9) The Rapid Action Battalion, a paramilitary police unit, said it had arrested Touhidur Rahman, 58, and two other “active members” of Ansarullah Bangla Team, which was banned in May over a series of killings of bloggers .
(10) Ampicillin-resistant strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 isolated in epidemics in Mexico, Central America, and Bangla Desh were examined for the presence of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by gel electrophoresis.
(11) Mahmud Khan, the head of the RAB’s media wing, said another suspect who was arrested, Sadek Ali, acted as a bridge to communicate with Jasim Rahmani, the alleged head of Ansarullah Bangla Team.
(12) This month, a hit list of international bloggers believed to have been compiled by the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a local group of militants that has claimed responsibility for several murders of secular campaigners and writers in Bangladesh, was circulated on the internet.
(13) The former, on the whole, spoke the local language of Bangla, favoured socialist-style economic policies and desired a liberal, secular framework for their new nation.
(14) When US ambassador Nancy Powell visited one of Delhi's leading Sikh temples, the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, on Monday, members gave her a written statement that dealt with gun control as well as prejudice against Sikhs living in the US.
(15) Authorities in the politically unstable south Asian state have been repeatedly criticised for not acting to protect free speech, though the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a hardline Islamist group, was banned following Das’s murder.
Bengali
Definition:
(n.) The language spoken in Bengal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bose grew up with the idea, as the child of a well-to-do Bengali family in Kolkata.
(2) His name is Moudud Ahmed and he was then a young lawyer who had defended the Bengali independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
(3) My identity comes in many parts: Bengali, Londoner and the rest.
(4) Yet few of them are encouraged to learn Bengali, Urdu or Polish in the playground, and I'm not aware that any school has tried to foster or formalise peer group learning of that kind.
(5) Like Ray, my parents are Bengali and while they had been taking me back to Kolkata during long summer holidays, I had failed to take to the city, which seemed to offer only August heat, difficult food and calamine lotion for mosquito bites.
(6) Hanging on the walls are faded posters, a world map and the alphabet in Bengali and English.
(7) Instead it insists that a group with its own language and a history in Burma that goes back many generations must be called Bengalis, and describes them as illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh .
(8) Two years ago, he also organised a Rainbow Rally for the Bengali new year celebrations in Dhaka.
(9) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
(10) To her, Pakistani army personnel are gentle, quiet, kind, honest, "fine men" with a good humour and "with no ethnic bias against the Bengalis".
(11) Instead, Burmese authorities are trying to coerce Rohingya, the world’s largest stateless population within any single country’s borders, to identify as Bengali, a crude strategy to erase the Rohingya ethnic identity.
(12) Of those patients who attended for postnatal glucose tolerance test, 20% of the Bengali population demonstrated persisting abnormality of glucose tolerance, whereas no abnormalities were evident in the Caucasian group.
(13) American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh Read more Akbar said Roy’s “beautiful writings in Bengali” were an attempt to educate people without directly attacking religion.
(14) Tower Hamlets Tory councillor Peter Golds also claims that at one polling station he visited, 11 supporters of Rahman were stationed inside the grounds and could be seen thrusting leaflets into the hands of Bengali voters and escorting them to the door of the polling station.
(15) An explorative study was carried out to ascertain the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding diet patterns during pregnancy and lactation among Non-Bengali Muslim mothers.
(16) He has also worked for several long-established companies (Monte-Carlo Ballet, Geneva Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Cullberg Ballet in Sweden, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York); as well as in several duets – Zero Degrees (2005) with British-Bengali wunderkind Akram Khan , Dunas (2009) with flamenco dancer María Pagés , and Play (2009) with Paris-based Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa .
(17) I can describe last month’s celebration of Pohela Boishakh , Bengali new year, which was carried out with great fanfare and not a religious symbol in sight.
(18) Communities that once co-existed peacefully have been sent to segregated refugee camps all around the state, the majority of them filled with Rohingya – a population of roughly 800,000 who claim to be rightful citizens of Burma but whom the Burmese government widely calls "Bengali immigrants", denying them citizenship and placing restrictions on their rights to travel, attend higher education and even marry.
(19) In contrast to the West Bengali study, maternal behavior showed no differences between the two nutritional groups, and the intercorrelations between maternal and child scores showed similar or parallel patterns of reciprocity for the well-nourished and the undernourished children.
(20) For every sale, these aparajitas (Bengali for a “woman who never gives up”) receive between 10-15% commission.